Title: A Passion For People
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Blog Entry: Mark Twain said, "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." This quote appears on a Web site intended to help people discover what they are passionate about so they can live with greater significance. The apostle Paul's passion in life was largely driven by concern for the eternal destiny of others. In 2 Corinthians 5, he names three things that fueled his passion. First, he recognized that he was accountable to Christ for his service and wanted to give a good accounting at the judgment seat of Christ (vv.9-10). Second, Paul was driven by Christ's love and a desire that others would know the love that he had experienced. In verse 14 he wrote, "For the love of Christ compels us." Finally, he understood that a lost and dying world needs the Savior (v.20). What are you passionate about? Paul's passion for people was fueled by the love of Christ—and ours should be as well. Let's apply Twain's words of challenge to our efforts in outreach: "Sail away from the safe harbor." Share the love of Christ with someone today. — Bill Crowder Set us afire, Lord, stir us we pray! While the world perishes, we go our way Purposeless, passionless, day after day; Set us afire, Lord, stir us we pray! —Cushman Talking to Christ about others helps us to talk to others about Christ. READ: 2 Corinthians 5:9-21 He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. —2 Corinthians 5:15 ~Nina's Corner~ My passion is singing. I mix my passion of song with my passion for Christ, and now I'm a Christian singer and I wouldn't have it any other way. I don't really care if I get famous just one person who gets saved or the song I sang touched someone's life is enough payment. I'm not in it for personal gain, I'm in it for the love of Christ. When I talk to people about Jesus I don't push my own beliefs on them I let them tell me what they believe and go from there, it's not about what we think is right it's not about us at all it's all about Jesus and saving lives.
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