Hope is a wonderful thing, it is one the triplets mentioned in 1Cor 13v13, Leon Morris wrote,'Men cannot live without hope. In the first centuries Christianity made a habit of taking people from the depressed classes, slaves,women,outcasts,and giving them a living hope'. In the society we live in there are so many people who have so much of this worlds goods,and that is their only hope. I like what Leon Morris says.and I believe we should aim our evangelism at the, hopeless of our society .We are not here to give people health,wealth and prosperity ,we are here to give people hope not only for time but for eternity ,that hope comes through faith in Jesus Christ.Behind the facade of prosperity that people long after, there is sadness, loneliness, pain, lostness, hopelessness.Recently I spoke to someone who is part of a pastorally team in a university,and he mentioned how so many young people are in crisis,mentally ill, and suicidal. We live in a broken world,filled with broken people,who have no hope,and don't know where to turn to,whatever hopes they have had, has crumbled into dust. Many years ago as a young man with nothing really to look forward to,I trusted Jesus and found hope.
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