PREACH A BETTER SERMON WITH YOUR LIFE THAN WITH YOUR LIPS

PREACH A BETTER SERMON WITH YOUR LIFE THAN WITH YOUR LIPS

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. We are the Bibles the world is reading: We are the creeds the world is needing: We are the sermons the world is heeding. - [Dr. Billy Graham]

St. Francis of Assisi one day said to several of his followers, "Let us go to the village over the way and preach, for a true Christian is a living sermon, whether or not he preaches a word.”

As they went, they met a humble pedestrian who was greatly burdened.  Francis was in no hurry and listened carefully to his tale of woe. When the village was reached, Francis talked with the shopkeepers, spent time with the farmers at their fruit and vegetable stalls, and played with the children in the streets.

On the way back they met a farmer with a load of hay, and Francis spent time with him.

The morning gone, the group reached the monastery from where they had set out in the early morning. One of the followers, who was greatly disappointed, said to Francis, "Brother Francis, you said we were going to preach. The morning is spent and no sermon has been given."

And the saintly Francis replied, "But we have been preaching all the way." Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence or learning.

My point is that as, Mahatma Gandhi once said “If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian.”

My dear readers, we are writing a Gospel, a chapter each day, by the deeds that we do and by the words that we say. Men read what we write, whether faithless or true. The big question to be answered here is what is the Gospel According to you that others are reading? –[Paul Gibert]

We must know that People are won to our religious beliefs less by description than by demonstration.

Love-- and the unity it attests to--is the mark Christ gave to us Christians to wear before the World. Only with this mark can the World know that We Christians are indeed Christians and that Jesus was sent by the Father.

Let us endeavour to preach a better sermon with our lives than with our lips, for this is what Jesus Christ, demonstrated to us, and let us not forget that his strength will always be sufficient for us.