FALL BIBLE CONFERENCE Join the Cedarville community for our annual Fall Bible Conference from August 18–21. This year’s speaker is Dr. Jimmy Scroggins, lead pastor of Family Church in West Palm Beach, Florida. All Fall Bible Conference sessions will be livestreamed. THE CROSSOVER: ENGAGING IN GOD'S MISSION The following is an excerpt from a March 25, 2025, chapel presentation from Clare Jewell. Listen to his full message at cedarville.edu/JewellMarch2025. This morning, we want to talk about the crossover. Let me give you a simple definition: leaving our comfort zone to make a relational connection. In the Gospels, Jesus is regularly crossing over boundaries to love people who are disconnected fromGod. In John 4, we have someone at the total opposite end of the scale: a Samaritan woman. Jesus knows that she needs to be born again. He had every excuse to ignore this woman, but He crosses over cultural barriers to share the Gospel. Jesus knows there's no barrier to God's love. I would suggest to you that's what love does. There's nothing admirable about leaving someone in their sin. Jesus crosses this line of tolerance versus intolerance, of pluralism versus exclusivism, and says there's only one way. The answer is not mere tolerance. The answer is love. What barriers does God want you to cross? God has given you enormous resources. How are you going to use them? The surest way to remove yourself from the center of God's will is to make it clear you will not sacrifice your preferences in an all-out search for the lost. The most unsatisfied Christians I know are the ones who refuse to cross over. They sit in their comfort zone waiting for God to bless them instead of getting out of their comfort zone to become a blessing to someone else. You can cross over. You can leave your comfort zone to make a relational connection. You have an awesome opportunity to love people who need the Gospel, to love people as God loves them. There are so many people looking for hope. Do not walk away from them. Cross over. Do what Jesus did for you. Clare Jewell is the Executive Director of ABWE EveryEthne and the Director of Generate for the GARBC. More recently, he has been selected to serve as the GARBC National Representative. 29
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