Jesus called us to be "fishers of men," not cleaners of fish, but most churches today want their fish cleaned, gutted, deboned and served on a silver platter with a side of garnish. But that's not our job, our job is to simply be a GPS and point to Jesus. It's the Holy Spirit's job to transform lives. "He also said, this is what the Kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the soil produces grain--first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come." (Mark 4:26-29)
Why do we feel that we can do the work of the Holy Spirit? Our job is to get people as close as possible to Jesus, and Jesus knows what to do from there. We are simply called to be rope holders, like the four men who lowered the paralytic through the roof to be brought near Christ to be healed. (Luke 5:17-26)
A section of scripture which further validates this truth is the story of the woman at the well, who after having a brief but life-changing encounter with Jesus, went back to her hometown and said "Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" (John 4:29) In response to this one "unclean" woman, "Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony" (John 4:39) But more important than her words, were His, "And because of His words, many more became believers. They said to the worman, 'We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.'" (John 4:41-42)
We are not called to be judges and lawyers, but to be WITNESSES.
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