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How to Present the Living Christ to an Unbelieving World 1. This presentation is how the third century Church presented Christ to a non-believing world in a liturgical setting of the Church-gathered. A. Liturgy comes from the Greek word Leitourgia and Latin term Liturgia and means the work of the people. B. This method of presenting Christ before the non-believing world is an ethical and extremely personal approach because Christ is presented by the speaker to be Christ Himself and expressed in the first person of Jesus. 2. You speak to the unbeliever as if you are Christ in the first person who says to him/her as follows:
“I believe Jesus Christ is real though invisible to our eyes but nevertheless is real and here in our presence through the Holy Spirit that is in among us.
Jesus sees a beautiful person in you though you may not see it within yourself but He wishes to use my hands to gesture and my mouth to speak and here is what He desires for you to hear and know�: “I like you and see a beauty that abides in you and that could never hold a candle to all the starry skies that have ever been made by my Father who abides in Heaven. You are more precious to me than all the gold and expensive diamonds which have been discovered and refined by man.
I know you better than with what you could possible know of yourself because I created you.
You have a beauty and inherent worth in you that have always been part of you since you first came into this world.
You may not recognize this inherent worth that is in you but it is the superlative gift from my Father to you and is far greater of an achievement and wonder in you than when He created the universe from out of nothing.
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I have known you before you were born and my heart felt desire is to fashion you for greatness on a greater scale than in the creation of the cosmos. I alone can do this for you if you are willing to relate with me on my terms and not of yours.
My relationship with you is life and death because I demand your complete allegiance to me whereby you must die to self-life in order to gain the kind of life that comes from my Father through me.
I am not asking for an immediate response to my invitation but I am asking you to relate with me as a person. Though you may not understand me in the way with which I desire at this time, you do understand one thing and that is how to enter into a relationship with another person.
I am a person and one in whom you can relate and trust without fail and you will discover that I am greater than all other persons with whom you have met and it is my desire and my Father’s will to have a relationship with you on a very deep and intimate level. The one thing with which I demand is for you to enter into a relationship with me on my terms and not of yours.
Our relationship with each other will be the beginning stage for eternal growth from within you.
When you do enter into a relationship with me, you will not understand all of who I am but one day you will come to understand me and in what I have purposed for you since before the foundation of the world.
When you relate to me on my terms and not of your own, it will begin your journey with me to fashion you after the moral pattern and values of my Father-God and inaugurate your pilgrimage with me to being made and formed into Godlikeness.
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I am not asking you to repent of your sins at this point in your life because you may not understand all with which that means. I will open my life before you so that you can examine me to know and validate that I am real and speak the truth. I will give all the time in the world to you for a thorough examination of me to see if I am real.
If you find that I am not real but a lie, you may go in your own way but I will never leave and stop loving you though you may reject me.
But after examining me and if you discover that I am real and speak truth and if you still choose to have a relationship with me, I demand one condition from you and without compromise; you must acknowledge, recognize and accept me to be your Lord and Master. I am not the kind of Master who will punish, reject, stop loving and flog you when you do wrong; but I am the kind of Master who will love and never leave you no matter in what you may do that is displeasing to me. I will be the kind of Master who will pick you up when you sin and fall and set you once again on the path of my righteous love.
Where you go is where I go and nothing that could be done by you will ever drive away my presence with and love for you.
I will even go so far to allow you to abuse me without shrinking from my commitment into making you to be Godlike.
When you sin, I will absorb your sins into myself and will continue to do so no matter if you quit responding to me.
My Mastery and Lordship are easy burdens and not heavy laden, and in them, you will find rest and love; my love is like a refiner’s fire to burn away all that which hinders you from achieving the greatness in which I have always intended for you to possess.
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My Lordship and Mastery seek to perfect you into fresh and endless possibilities through my divine Grace.
I make this commitment to you: I will make you to be so perfect that one day I can present you before my Father who is perfect and abides in Heaven and you will not feel ashamed.
One day in our walk together you will come to me and say, Master, I am tired of playing games and want to be made like you at the cost of my own life and want to understand the full meaning and purpose of my birth that was fashioned by you before the creation of the cosmos.
When that day comes and it will, we will begin to make progress together. I pledge to take all circumstances and conditions into which you were born and all things that are presently and in the future lie before you and fit them to be great occasions for turning you into being the jewel of the universe that will one day be laid before my Father and to be pleasing in His sight.
I have an enterprise that my Father has purposed for all creation and is fitted just for you with all the beauty and gifts that my Father has created in you by virtue of being born into this world and that aid in bringing this great plan to completion.
My Father’s enterprise is so great that my disciples and prophets of old could never exhaust its meaning through words alone; and I invite you to be a partner with me in this enterprise with remaking the fabric of creation of all things in Heaven and upon earth. The angels of Heaven have never seen this enterprise in the grandeur with which has been fashioned by my Father for you and they will rejoice when you choose to join with me toward its accomplishment and completion.
I alone can equip you into fulfilling your destiny in this great enterprise of my Father; and all the sufferings and pain in the
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carrying out of this glorious plan of the ages by you will never be in vain but will have reverberations throughout the cosmos.
I now will leave you and wait patiently for your answer to my invitation to you�.
3. Once this presentation of the Gospel is made to the non-believer, you must leave it up to him/her if each person desires to proceed further because you believe Jesus Christ is a real but invisible person and will begin to exert Himself into the life of the person with whom you presented the Gospel.