For four million dollars we could have purchased thirty seconds of airtime to advertise whatever we like during this year’s Super Bowl. When someone spends that much they definitely want to maximize the experience with the most creative and interesting advertising possible. Or to put it more crudely, “Get the most bang for your buck.”
I was wondering how we would use thirty seconds to advertise Christianity. Would we show a reenactment of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead? Would we show Jesus restoring fingers and facial features to a decayed leper? Would we show Jesus on the Cross or perhaps better Sunday morning coming from the tomb? Perhaps we would broadcast a few of His fabulous promises? Or we could read highlights from the Sermon on the Mount.
It would be very difficult to reduce the grandeur of the Gospel to thirty seconds when one is advertising the gift of eternal life. Better than all the above is a single individual living a kind, loving, unselfish life. We are walking commercials for the best product ever conceived. Our lives, the brief and extended contacts we have with others, our influence makes more of a difference than we can imagine. Temporary lives become eternal lives because of us. We are God’s ads and He spent so much more than four million dollars to have us on His side.
Written by Roger Bothwell on February 3, 2014
Spring of Life Ministry, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574
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