Whose responsibility is it for me to learn the Gospel?  And again who do I blame if I am unable or unwilling to go out and attempt to perform the great commission?  Or better yet why do I have to contemplate these questions at all?  Can’t I just rely upon grace and salvation to cover my lack of motivation, accountability and that dirty word called disobedience?  Isn’t that what grace is all about that as long as I believe, put my faith in Christ and repent of my sin all is forgiven?  Is there really some sense of responsibility or is that just something that was made up by the Church to make me feel guilty?

Why did you go to school all those years?  Did attending regular education give you the necessary tools to get ahead in life or was it just an exercise in futility?  Did you have to learn disciplines like English in order to communicate well enough to get a job that pays your bills, or do you think that you could have accomplished the same without an education?  Why did you pay for college, because you first “believed” that it would provide you access to opportunities not currently available without that education?  It is not about guilt but there has to be some form of recrimination from the Holy Spirit for not doing what you know should be done for the Kingdom.  I would be seriously concerned if you are not feeling the promptings of conscience.  Lack of input/feedback from the Holy Spirit for non performance may indicate a seared conscience or worse yet an absence of the Spirit altogether.

Let us be real, if you do not feel compelled to go out and create disciples for the Kingdom to save all those in your sphere of influence from an eternity separated from God then what does that say about your heart?  “I wish I knew God’s Will for my life”, is the most common statement I hear from undetermined Christians who are unwilling to search for that Will within the pages of God’s Word.  Additionally common is that statement, “It is just not my spiritual gift to disciple”.  Yes it is a choice, but those who are unwilling to share the Truth of God’s Word have not been convinced of its importance to this lost world.  Stop with the diatribe, if you knew that you had the antidote to someone’s poisoning or illness to keep it from them would be accessory to their demise.  Not telling them about salvation is tantamount to the same.  So please stop trying to justify your disbelief by having a true believer justify your disobedience.  We are accountable to the same God that you are, the only difference is that we revere Him and thus we take our first meeting seriously.

Learning the Bible is a gift.  God wrote us a guide book for this life and the next, giving us careful instruction, guidance, direction and example for us to closely follow His will for our lives.  If we will not take the time to learn what He has already shown us then we don’t deserve the revelations, miracles and Glory that would come as further gifting.  Yes pastors and other Church members are accountable for feeding the lambs within the Body.  They will be held to account for what they did or did not teach within the Church.  But that does free each member of the Body from personal accountability for their own edification.  If a student does not wish to learn, then a teacher cannot teach that student.  It all comes back to us as individual’s making the necessary choices to edify the Church, encourage others and bring Glory to God through our good works in this world.  All of this done voluntarily, commensurate with the wonderful gift of grace and salvation we were given.

Whose responsibility is it for me to learn the Bible?  Mine.  Although others may encourage, assist and edify it is inevitably me who is accountable.  Who is held to account if I do not tell everyone that I can about the Good News of Christ?  Me.  I dread that moment when I stand before Jesus and He shows me the people I was supposed to meet and guide to the Cross yet I never showed up or didn’t speak up.

I look forward to meeting people in heaven that I never met on earth who tell me that they are thankful to me for helping them reach eternity.  I will cry and laugh for joy when they tell me that it was someone to whom I testified that showed them the cross and I was proximately responsible.  If you don’t know the Bible and want to know, let me know and I will do everything in my power to help you get there.  If you don’t know how to disciple or you are struggling with understanding your responsibility to evangelize, ask me and I will help anyway that I can to clarify, edify and direct you to the answers.  I am accountable to Christ for what I do and do not do for the Kingdom.  I accept that awesome blessing of responsibility and hope that you will help keep me accountable for that blessing.

May God be honored through all that I’ve said and done.  I love you so much that it hurts to see when you are powerless, as it is an illusion.  Praise You Father in the Name of Christ the King of All.