Reach Out and Touch

“Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy.”

Matthew 8:3

 

Very few people like those automated phone systems

You know the type where it starts out by asking you to touch one for language choice.

Then you are further instructed to touch 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 for such and such.

That menu selection takes you to yet another sub-menu.

Touch…and so on until finally we get the option to touch 1 for an operator.

No hesitation there, when we have a problem  that needs to be resolved, we all want to talk to a real person.

Those canned choices just don’t bring a resolution.

I believe the days of the huge and distant mega-ministries and campuses are numbered.

Just as Jesus did, the Kingdom of God meets and touches people where they.

I know there are many television ministries that can point to wonderful testimonies of when God has miraculously healed someone when a Word of Wisdom and a prayer of healing was given over the airwaves.

I don’t deny or diminish that work of God.

But, like the canned phone system, it can be very sterile and does not touch people for Christ in the same way that you and I can.

Make no mistake, I am not calling technology evil or opposed to the advancing of the Kingdom using all available technologies.

But when all is said and done, it cannot do what you and I are called to –

Touching lives for Christ and letting His divine touch minister as no technology can!

 

“That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—

this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.”

I John 1:1