When sharing the Gospel, listen carefully to the person! You are not talking to a robot. Your words are not a prerecorded message. This is an individual with a soul created in God’s image. Show the person dignity. They are not a personal challenge viewed simply as a convert to be won or a prize for our evangelism trophy case. Listen to them and try to genuinely enter their world. Love them! Learn their heart and then speak Christ as the solution. Never alter the core message, but learn to package the Gospel in a customized way for each individual. Probe them. Emphasize with them. Question them to understand them. This is love, investment in a human being however short of long that interaction might be, drawing out their worldview, beliefs, struggles and fears and then presenting Christ as the answer who has overcome sin.
Randy Smith

The Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope

The U.S. Hubble Space Telescope is scheduled for launch aboard the space shuttle Discovery sometime this year.

Once out in orbit, 368 miles above the earth and far from the distorting effects of the atmosphere, Hubble’s 94.5 inch mirror will make images ten times sharper than any earth-based telescope.

“For astronomers, it will be like the receipt of the Bible,” says John Bachall of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Hubble will focus on stars twenty times fainter than any seen with existing telescopes.

Hubble will also examine areas that appear vacant from earth to see if they are populated with faint stars. It will also search for planets outside our solar system.

“And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.” Ecclesiastes 1:13

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