By Sondra L. Kern

Your question as to “What Should We Be Doing?” made me want to respond. I found this list somewhere and quite honestly don’t remember where, but I printed it out because I feel this is  how I should be living:

1) Walking submissively.

2) Worshiping triumphantly.

3) Witnessing urgently.

4) Working fervently.

5) Watching expectantly.

As a person who has been a “Christian” all my life, but recently born-again within the past couple of years, my joy and ministry for Christ is in my music. I love to sing the traditional as well as the contemporary Christian songs, and feel God has spoken to me through my music and that’s how I became born-again.

I sing at church in both the Chancel Choir and the Contemporary Ensemble Group, at three different nursing homes (one every Sunday after church), for Communion and special Christian services. I decided to “step out of the boat” and start singing for a nursing home every Sunday after church, even though I was timid about viewing their handicaps and ailments. I prayed about this, and I felt compelled to take the step anyway.

Since that time I have such a bond with these folks; I love them dearly and I know they love and appreciate my coming to see them every week. I read Scripture, we sing about 15 songs, and close with prayer in the Name of Jesus. I look forward to seeing them every week and feel bad if I have to miss a Sunday. I truly feel that I am doing what God wants me to do and using my music to achieve it.

Also, I have recently had an opportunity at the Lutheran church I’m attending to witness to the Sunday School class about the Rapture and discuss the book of Revelation (you may not be aware that many Lutherans do not believe in the Rapture or the book of Revelation).

Actually, the Sunday school teacher said he would like to consider doing a Bible Study on the book of Revelation. I was so excited, that that I printed off several documents from Rapture Ready to give him some upfront information and shared the website address with him. I hope we can make this to happen.

I am 64 years old, and have (in the past couple years) come to the realization how important it is for me to witness to as many people as possible (no matter who they are) about God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. I let them know that I feel so full of the Holy Spirit that sometimes I think I might burst if I can’t share this feeling and information with others.

My recommendation to those who want to know what to do while waiting on our Lord to return is follow the items I listed above, read your Bible, study your Bible every day, seek out and be in God’s Word and truth at all times in all situations. Don’t be afraid to “step out of the boat” and do something you feel Christ would want you to be doing, but perhaps you are having second thoughts about. Trust Him. Love Him. Talk to Him every minute of every day.

By Trent Thornton

Christ; first, last and foremost should be uppermost in your thinking. Make sure that you have the pardon of Jesus who died to give you eternal life. How strong is your relationship with Him? How often do you read His Word?

Is your Christian witness being carried out in your personal life or is your lifestyle indistinguishable from non-believers? This is something you cannot afford to get wrong, so before you can worry about anything else you need to make sure that you are right with the King of kings.

Witness to others: This isn’t just a good idea, it’s our mandate as believers. God’s ideal will is for NO ONE, not one single soul to ever be condemned. Knowing that and knowing that hundreds of thousands if not millions of people in America alone need our help, what justification do you think we’ll have when we stand before the judgment seat of Christ?

There are several websites which can help you improve your delivery of the gospel message. Before you know it, you’ll be able to present the Good News in about ten or fifteen minutes. My experience with this is that after a while it becomes so easy that you start thinking of it as a game (in a good way). The Holy Spirit will enable those who wish to share the gospel so you don’t have to worry about your lack of articulate speaking skills.

Missionary Work: If you are not able to participate in missionary work for whatever reason, I can well understand. I myself work a job that wouldn’t be available to me anymore if I left for a month for a missionary assignment overseas. It is, however, a critical assignment and my personal belief is that if you’re not doing it yourself, you should likely consider contributing money or supplies to those who are.

If Americans are badly in need of Christ, we can say we at least live in a nominally Christian nation filled to overflowing with churches and Christian literature and television programming. People in third world nations are not so fortunate.

Tithe and Participation: Enabling your local church to carry out food and clothing drives as well as pay their employees who organize volunteer work is something you’ll never regret. Likewise, contributing your blood donations and time to such activities will, if nothing else, leave you with the assurance that you are making a difference in people’s lives. Maybe your church is having a co-op with Habitat for Humanity and they need people to help with constructing houses for those less fortunate.

Or perhaps the church will sponsor missionaries for trips overseas doing expensive (and potentially dangerous) work. There are no shortage of options. For as pitiful as it may be, I assist with different programs in my own church. I’m by no means perfect (or even very good, for that matter) but recently I took over the podcast duties so that each week I play some small part in helping people learn about the word of God from my pastor, whom I consider to be a true teacher of God.

These are all small yet worthwhile things you, as a messenger of Christ, can do which are badly needed and can contribute to people coming to know Jesus Christ as Savior. You may personally never convert a single soul, but if you enable (by any means) others to do so, trust me you’ll never regret it. There’s always more work to be done so don’t think there’s not enough to go around.