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Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:44:44 -0600

My first introduction to the word triage was from the television show MASH. Although the show was most commonly thought of as a comedy, the comedy was often counterbalanced with the agony of doctors making life and death decisions in a combat zone.

The Mobile Army Surgical Hospital was close enough to the front lines that they got the most seriously wounded soldiers first. The men were air lifted or driven from the front to the hospital. The parking area outside the surgical tent became the emergency room. Examining wounds of patients laid on gurneys the doctors would use the triage system to rate severity of injuries and decide what order the soldiers needed to be treated.

Jesus explained triage this way,

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick
Matthew 9:12

The kingdom of God operates much like a hospital or MASH unit sharing restoration with those who are in need. Often, this means being on the front lines, working alongside those who are in traumatic states of sin and despair. Kingdom life calls us to walk into the darkest of nights looking for the lost and carrying them back to Jesus, the surgeon of their souls.

This weekend Pastor Gilbert Wesley of Jamaica will preach God’s message of Restoration. He speaks as one who is certainly on the front lines of the battle against the darkness. I pray you will come and here how you can be restored from sin and become a messenger of the Gospel of Peace!

First Aid

Fri, 5 Feb 2010 21:20:18 -0600

What does it mean to be restored? What does it feel like? How does it happen. The early Church exploded with growth moving from a small group of disciples to thousands of believers as people began to be added daily to the way of Christ. The Church extended Grace to the lost and sin battered around them.

They were a First Aid station for sinners. Acts chapter three tells the story of a lame man who was left to beg at one of the entrances to the temple. The same temple area where the early Church met to worship God and His son Jesus. Luke says that as Peter and John approached the temple to worship they stopped and instead of walking past the beggar they spoke to him.

They did not give him the hand out he expected and they did not give him the a rebuke for ruining the mood at Temple. No,they spoke to him and offered him restoration in the name of Jesus. Peter heals the man with a touch and the scripture says they entered together into the Temple to give God praise!

Have many times have we walked past the lost in our community. How many times have we been too busy to minister to those who need restoration? The Lord places people in our path every day whose most important need is to find a loving relationship with God. Will you allow God to use you to minister to them?

This month we will see God’s restoration in the pages of Acts; through Jamaican Pastor, Gilbert Wesley; and in our own lives as we allow the Spirit of God to change our hearts and restore us to God.

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