“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10 NKJV
In the Wiersbe Study Bible, Warren Wiersbe wrote: “At great expense to Himself, God worked for us on the cross. And today, on the basis of that price paid at Calvary, He is working in us to conform us to Christ. God cannot work in us unless He has first worked for us, and we have trusted His Son. Also, He cannot work through us unless He works in us. This is why it is important for us to spend time daily in the Word and prayer, and to yield to Christ during times of suffering. For it is through the Word, prayer, and suffering that God works in us (does the ‘good works’ He planned for us).
“Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.” Ephesians 2:19-22 NKJV
Earl Radmacher wrote: “Being fitted together pictures the process in Roman construction whereby laborers (usually slaves) would turn huge rocks around until they fit each other perfectly. For example, columns appeared to be one piece, but were actually separate cylinders of stone resting on each other. In similar fashion, God fits believers together into the holy temple He is building for Himself.”
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them …” Romans 12:1-6 NKJV
Every believer should and can be a “truth-telling connector.”
Paul said to the people in Athens: “God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being … He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.” Acts 17:24-28, 31 NKJV
Between July 6 and August 14, the TTT team took Fair Share to 9 Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky counties. They traveled 3,048 miles and were at county fairs are street festivals 32 nights.
Fair attendees received 1,938 bottles of ice cold water, each with the message “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.”
The team distributed 2,211 copies of God’s ABCs of salvation: A – Admit you’ve sinned (Romans 3:23, Romans 6:23). B – Believe on Christ (John 3:16). C – Confess Christ publicly (Romans 10:9-10).
Team members surveyed 367 teenagers and preteens, sharing the Gospel individually. At least 167 of these made the decision to personally “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.” Multiple TTT alumni who had participated as teenagers shared their stories. And Saturday night, August 15 at TTT, at the conclusion of the Fair Share Celebration rally, one more responded to the Gospel and the invitation to Believe on Christ. To God goes all the glory!
The TTT vision is persistent: Every youth, before turning 20, to hear the Gospel with an invitation to “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,” demonstrating God’s workmanship. Will you?