Pray,Plant,Grow,Give..SHARE

Dear Beloved:

I wanted to give you an opportunity to share in our garden Ministry and let you know how rich of an evangelistic opportunity is afforded by something as simple as a garden. We started the Neighborhood Bible Church community garden last October, and since then, we have had so many opportunities to share the Gospel through giving out fresh,organic vegetables grown on our property. I have been so blessed to give out these vegetables, and in turn have had the opportunity to share from the "natural" to the Spiritual in many of our conversations. This is the point, you can take a simple idea, like sharing vegetables and use it as a "ice breaker" to get conversation started. Then as you are sharing the "vegetable" stories, you can move from the natural to the spiritual. There are so many analogies you can make when it comes to a Garden, like tilling the soil and planting a seed... Which is what we are doing when we share the law and Gospel. The Law tills the soil of the heart and gets the person thinking of their sin, and then the Gospel shows how God is merciful to have provided us Salvation through the shed blood of His precious Son Jesus. Watering the plants, How without constant "watering" of His Word, we will wither and die, just like plants. How a small and simple seed, will grow to feed many. This how the Lord uses us. He is so great and we are so small in comparison, yet He uses us to further HIS kingdom, He doesn't need to, but He does! Praise the Lord! How one plant produces many seed, and those plants produce even more seed, and on and on. This is how the Gospel is spread, we tell one person, then they tell another, then pretty soon, more and more people are sharing the Gospel and their faith. From that one seed, comes an abundance of fruit! Wow... I could go on and on, but you get the point. The Golden thread that runs through all of these conversations is Christ and Him crucified. We must always preach Jesus and His salvation, through His death and resurrection. He is the one who saves, He is the one who grows, He is the one who takes the seed of His Gospel and grows it in the hearts of men. Praise the Lord of the harvest, Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest." Matt 9:38nasb

Until the last grain is harvested!

Robert