One Love Skate Outreach 5 Questions

     We've been using five questions to interview people and compiling the results. As I've been working on publishing some tracts and cards for OLSO over the last few days, I wrote some Biblical answers to the questions we ask when we go talk to people. This is still a work in progress, and I want all the help we can get from godly counselors who are skilled at communicating Biblical truth. This blog will take you under four minutes to read straight through, and we'd like to know whether you think these answers are Biblical and concise. Please send us your responses and feedback. Ask God to teach you about Him as you read. Be a Berean (Acts 17:11).

What comes to your mind when you think of One Love?

     One Love is a popular concept. Bob Marley sang: “One Love, One Heart, Let's get together and feel all right.” Love is extremely important to people of all ages.
     True love means sharing vital information. If a tsunami was coming and you were on the beach, the most loving thing someone could do for you would not be to make sure you were happy and comfortable at the beach; the loving action is to inform you that you need to get to higher ground.
     The Bible teaches that God has shared vital information with the world because of His love for us (2 Timothy 3:16).

What’s the Purpose of Life?

     Unfortunately, many people do not know why they are alive. However, God tells us in the Bible that God made man in His image (Genesis 1:26-27).  Therefore, the purpose of life is to please God, our perfect Creator (1 Corinthians 10:31). Everything we do should please God our Creator and make Him famous (Colossians 3:17). 

Who is God?

     Although different people have various ideas about God, God has described who He is in the pages of His Word, the Bible. He is one God made up of three persons: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Matthew 3:16-17, Ephesians 4:4-6). God is very different from people, and He is totally perfect (Isaiah 6:3).  

What do you believe will happen to you when you die?

    Each of us will die one day. Although many people presume that a loving God should let everyone go to heaven, God is perfect and cannot let evil go unpunished because He is just.
     Each of us has individually broken God’s established standard of righteousness: No person has kept the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20). No person has ever loved others perfectly as Jesus commanded (Matthew 22:36-37). Although God’s commands are provided in love to protect us and point us to true life—for example, no one wants to be lied to, cheated on, stolen from, etc.—we have all sinned by breaking God’s commands and we have all fallen short of God’s perfect standard (Romans 3:23). Therefore, when we die we deserve to be separated from God forever (Isaiah 53:5, Romans 3:10). Because God is just and we have broken the Law, we deserve the punishment for our transgressions, which is eternal death (Romans 6:23).

Who is Jesus Christ? 

      About 2,000 years ago, Jesus Christ walked this earth. C.S. Lewis suggested that Jesus Christ had to be either: the Lord God, a liar, or a crazy person because Jesus claimed to be the Son of God (John 14:6).

     1 John 4:9 says: “This is how God showed His LOVE among us: He sent His ONE and only Son into the world that we might live through Him.” Because of God’s awesome love, He sent Jesus to live a perfect life that no one of us could have lived, and Jesus died on the cross and resurrected taking believers’ sin on Himself (Isaiah 53:6, 1 Peter 2:24). Jesus Christ is God’s Son, and if we put our faith in Jesus by repenting of our sins and receiving Him as our Savior and the Lord of our life we will live forever with God (John 3:16, Romans 10:9, Ephesians 2:8-10).

     If you actively believe this vital information, the Holy Spirit has opened your eyes to this truth, and God will restore your relationship with Him. Put your faith and trust in Jesus as your Savior, and regularly repent of the wrong things you do. Let God transform your life through the Bible as you no longer live like the world and give every part of your life to God experiencing His ONE LOVE (Romans 12:1-2).

For more resources to help you experience the ONE LOVE visit: www.oneloveskateoutreach.com

 Keep praying for One Love Skate Outreach and all that this ministry entails. Lord willing, tomorrow morning we will having some tracts and stickers made. Pray for the process. Also, if you can make a tract or if you have made one in the past, please e-mail it to us because we are looking for some solid tracts for the website. Rep Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:20).

In Him (Gal 2:20),
Josh