I’m on vacation – doing VBS at the beach-close church and then beach in the afternoon. Using a 7 topic piece of advice from John Wesley for a week’s worth of devotions that I will pre-release on my blog page – free up my mornings for jumping right into VBS…  Have a great week!

Seven of John Wesley’s Practices Can Change Hearts Today – an article by Roger Ross: Tactics that John Wesley used to get the Word of God out… The author of this blog reminds us to use these tactics ourselves! Seven practices emerged as characteristic of the early Methodist movement.

NUMBER 7 – Use Mass Communication to Get the Word Out

“In Wesley’s day, the mass communication tool was the printing press. Wesley wrote numerous sermons, treatises, tracts, and books that were distributed to a wide audience to fuel the movement. Thousands of people who never heard him speak came to know Christ and grow in Christ through his writings. Of course, today the Internet and social media enable anyone with web access to have a personal platform previously unimaginable.”

 http://www.churchleadership.com/leadingideas/leaddocs/2016/160330_article.html

(AMEN – I am a media Christian – meaning that the media – social and spiritual were crucial to get me the data that my head needed to understand and be moved to change – to learn – to know how God was moving in my life – to reach me. And therefore the use of media today – like printing in John Wesley’s time – is SO crucial. GOD WANTS TO BE KNOW – WE ARE HIS HANDS AND FEET – showing love in action and dropping hints of His Love – like sharing books – like giving away the little cards that have bible verses on them – stickers  – encouraging words painted on rocks – etc. These can be priceless God-sightings to the viewer at the right time!!! The Word does not go out without doing some encouragement before returning… and to get people to come to the Word, just like any event, you’ve got to make it available to them, invite them, get the word and the Word out!!! AMEN – Keep sharing my friends!!!)