Mark 5:18-10 As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him. But he refused, and said to him, “Go home to your friends, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him; and all men marveled.
I was recently having another of those conversations about Christianity or for that matter any religion not being rational. I'm intelligent to a point and I have to admit that I find it difficult some times when people who know me well make me feel like they think I'm stupid. I want to scream, "Do you think this person you love has spent his lifetime deceiving people?" "What kind of man do you think I am?" I resist but it is a temptation, and I know it would not have helped me when I was Christ resistant.
Jesus did not tell the man he healed to go and convince people I am real and that theologically speaking I must live and do these things for the benefit of the whole world. No he did not ask the man to make a rational argument. He said, "Go home to your friends, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has mercy on you." You see he was just told to share his life experience of Jesus. Notice Jesus in the sentence calls himself Lord.
All Jesus wants from us is the same thing as this man who marveled the Decapolis. Tell them what the Lord has done for you and how he has mercy on you. Not too hard if you think about it.
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