Jesus Christ vs the Evangelical Tithe

Jesus Christ vs the Evangelical Tithe

# 9: Jesus said, “As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” “You” were His apostles, those He had spent years training. Primarily, Lord Jesus sent them to take the vital information of His salvation – paid for by His precious and innocent blood – to the perishing. But those sent-ones are now in heaven. Who are today’s sent-ones?

You are Christ’s sent-one. Those words – “As the Father    has sent Me, I also send you” – were recorded for your sake. Jesus is speaking to you just as clearly and emphatically as He spoke to the eleven. You are Christ’s sent-one. And….

And the one sitting next to you in church is Christ’s sent-  one. Your friends are sent-ones. Every born-again evangelical is Christ’s sent-one. But the evangelical sent-ones have little in common with New Testament sent-ones.

New Testament sent-ones – the eleven, the seventy, Paul, Timothy, etcetera – went (left, departed)! Almost every evangelical sent-one stays. They are sent-ones who don’t   go! They don’t take the gospel – personally or by financing evangelists or missionaries or via social media – to the perishing. When the evangelical dropped his tenth (or his whatever) into the basket, he thinks he freed himself from that responsibility. Sad. Very sad.