Sunday's Message (May 24)-The Rest of the Story

For a holiday weekend I was pleased with the number of people who came for worship! It was another good Sunday.

This morning we looked at the story from Luke 8 where Jesus goes to the other side of the lake to rescue a man taken hostage by demons.

Here's the rest of the story: The now-freed man begs Jesus to take him along with the rest of Jesus' disciples. But Jesus tells the man to stay where he is; to go home and tell everyone about how much God has done for him.

When Jesus returned to that area later on, rather than being run out of town as he was in Luke 8, this time around the people were eager to meet him, see him, and listen to him. We can assume, and it is more than an assumption, that the freed man did what Jesus told him to do. He told people about how Jesus had rescued him. And, hearing the story, the people now wanted to see Jesus for themselves.

Deeply simple--tell our friends, our families, our neighbors, our co-workers how much God has done for us. Many of them will want to see, meet, and follow Jesus themselves. It only takes one story-teller to change a city.