Thirteen Jews Walk Into a Bar - The Relevancy of the Gospel

A year ago I came up with a corny joke. "Thirteen Jews walk into a bar. What happens?" "Everyone gets saved." Its funny in that weird, stupid way. Well, when I moved up here to Morning Star this joke kept coming back to me. And the Lord told it to me one day and I answered and He said, "Exactly. They went to where the people were, the related the Gospel to their own time, to their own culture, and to their own ways."

At every conference or religious event I always see non-Jewish people wearing Jewish stuff. I saw this tent at a conference recently that was selling shofars, Jewish music, prayer shawls, and really ridiculous stuff. Not to say that the Jewish culture is ridiculous, but if you are not Jewish, then you shouldn't be masquerading yourself.

Religion isn't bad. Without some sense of organization we would not get anything done. Religion to me is this; how you do something. I tell jokes. How do I do that? I say really weird and abrupt things. To me, the way I tell jokes is a religion.

The same applies to the Gospel. If you go to an indigenous tribe on the Amazon and tell them, "Your God's little sheep." They won't know what you talking about, because they don't know what sheep are. You cannot tell them Christ is the Lion of Judah. They haven't seen a lion and they don't know who Judah is.

So how do you preach the Gospel to those who don't anything about the Bible? You find how Christ relates to them. It says in Colossians 1:17 that all things are in Christ.

So the lesson is kids, be who you are to who they are, and say what you need to say so they can understand it. Preach the Gospel and if you have to, use words.