Dear Trip Lee,

A few friends and I were having a bible study on Romans and we were wondering what your thoughts were on predestination.

Yup. Blogged about something similiar to this last night. This is good.

Yup. Blogged about something similiar to this last night. This is good.

This really helped me. It is so hard sometimes to share the gospel with those who want nothing to do with it. I admit, I've backed out a few times when I know the Holy Spirit was leading me, and, as you said, I've felt ashamed about it later. I will not let fear do that to me again, though. I believe the Word and 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 is enough to change me! My pastor has been stressing this very thing lately. We need to win souls.

I was chewing on part one.. but i'm swallowing pt 2! :) amen!

@Trip Lee and Everyone Else. Let us not forget the power of prayer. I pray that God's Will is done in me and that He gives me the opportunity to change other people lives in ways that I never could have imaged. That He gives me the right words to say when it comes time to minster to another about the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Remember: "Let the Words of my Mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight O Lord my strength and Redeemer." (Psalm 19:14)

So pray for God to Assist you in His Will as well as praying for those He has given you.

Ah and 116 music is our war cry. Please keep making beautiful music we can dance too, be inspired by, and have the courage to be unashamed because of. I'm so glad to see you pour out you heart in this last message. 116 for life!! All the way from Ottawa, Canada!!!

Many times people are ashamed because they don't believe in their product. If you have the new j's, fresh in the box that people are standing in line at Foot Locker to get, will you have to use a lot of energy to sell those shoes? Nope! Why? Because we know that everyone there wants those shoes. This is the same mentality we have to carry with the gospel. Contrary to popular believe, people want the gospel! They just don't want religion! So, if you know that people want the gospel and you believe in your product, which is the gospel, you will have nooooo problem giving it.

Many times people are ashamed because they don't believe in their product. If you have the new j's, fresh in the box that people are standing in line at Foot Locker to get, will you have to use a lot of energy to sell those shoes? Nope! Why? Because we know that everyone there wants those shoes. This is the same mentality we have to carry with the gospel. Contrary to popular believe, people want the gospel! They just don't want religion! So, if you know that people want the gospel and you believe in your product, which is the gospel, you will have nooooo problem giving it.

Man , Man, man! I remember this one time I was out spreading the truth, and I ran up on a flock who worshiped satan. I was like God speak. This one kid was trying to catch me up in what fake christians do. I must say God helped me. God used me to tell them about themselves. Dude was like what's wrong with serving satan, he ain't really bad. Talking alot of crazy things. The BLOOD of Jesus was covering me and I was praying too. I belive when it was all said and done this kid name Austin had doubts about his god. I had alot of time also where I was like, I'm not going over there, but God has helped me alot. I hope this edify the Body. Much love

Man today.i was in Carls Jr. waiting for my food. Kids were in there. they like in high school. So fam im eye eaglelin this one guy ready to preach the gospel. but it didnt really come out. so i stayed humble.but still waiting fam.to get the good news out to the person i was looking at. next thing you know he walked up to this girl.then the holy spirit touched my heart to ask him about the cross he had on his neck. so i asked him are you a catholic. the dude was like ''no.'' . next thing in a blink of an eye he snatched this girl phone.robbed her and ran . so the girl chased him for like 3 seconds and walked to the bus sad fam. so i chased him down but the lord, me , the holy spirit or the holy spirit ,man just to be sure i guess Truth poped up to me like im not a cop.and thats true.but i pray i dont have no pride when i say this but i didnt feel mad later on when because i stumbled. but thats still so true anyways what you said trip lee. but only if i could of started blurting out things just for a spark of fire then i guess he would of thought twice on what he was going to do. but the lord continue to correct me because first off its just a phone its not a god. second i know who he is but im not a detective.


but anyways john 3:16 yallllllll

Dude I had the same problem and fear but God profoundly transformed my view of reaching the lost when I started reading the Evidence Bible compiled by Ray Comfort. The Charles Spurgeon quote in the Evidence Bible about tracts comforted my heart tremendously and all the quotes from John Wesley, Martin Luther, John MacArthur, and countless people from the past and present made me prepared to bring the gospel of peace (Eph. 6:10-20).

Hey thanks a lot Trip. This is huge man. I appreciate all your insight and motivation as we seek to proclaim our faith to people. If you get a chance, could you send me some thoughts on righteous anger? Thanks and much love

It's funny because we were all talking about this at Impact last night....realized this is no time for games...let the training begin.

Nice Blog

God Bless

Me and a couple guys are going out tonight to share the Gospel. I will be praying that this will keep me in check and increase the boldness that I am able to receive from God. Thank you Trip.

Hey trip,

How should we present the Gospel if its not brung up? Lets say you are working at a big company(A company like Kay Jewelers or Jared)
and your boss talks to you everyday about his problems, but you know that he dont want to hear the word. Should I still speak of Christ? Should I not say anything to keep my job or what? They know that I am a christian but I am just not sure what to say to them . Thanks..

Sir what makes people blush when they talk about Christ is b/c they do so 4rm a responsibility-point-of-veiw wt so much eloquence dt they dont seek strength 4rm d HOLY SPIRIT. Our sincerity and willingnes 2 preach d Word is nt enough, we need the Holy Spirit. ASK THE APOSTLES. 418

All this was very helpful both trip and everyone who left a comment. Earlier this week I asked God to show me what u want me to do and that I won't be ashamed to speak. The next day a conversion came up about wordly music which led us into a conversation about religion. One of the guys were Muslim and believed Jesus wad only a prophet but not the savior. I was on the back but when I heard that I moved closer. I knew the perfect scripture but I didn't say anything and I was so mad at myself. I asked the Lord to forgive me cuz that day maybe woldve changed his life. All in all I was still proud to see teenagers my age know the bible cuz when I didn't speak they did. Next time I won't have fear. God bless ! By the way luv ur music trip

Greater is he that is in you than in this world. Have faith and pray for stronger faith and a stronger witness.Depend on The Spirit and not yourself just go do it.Do not be afraid I am with you, dont be dismayed for I am your God.....

I am not ashamed of the gospel but my family is so lost and i don't know how to reach them. My brother is a muslim, my grandmother is a muslim slash christian lol, my aunt is a christian that has backslid so far i don't believe she wants to come back to Christ. My sister is just lost and when i I talk about God she just stares at me waiting so shut up lol. My mother is like "i know about the Koron, and I know about the Bible." but when i asked her what religion she is, that's all she says. So i don't know about her. My dad goes to church but he's a quiet person so i don't really know what he believes but i feel he is okay,lol. Now that's just people in my house, i don't even want to begin on the rest of my family lol. But my nefew (hes 5) is a believer and I try to read to him daily, but my brother keeps saying i'm "BRAINWASHING " him and he keeps telling him "ALAH" ( i dont know how to spell that lol) is the way...i need advice. What do you suggest?

A friend and I have been talking and praying about this for a little while now. It KILLS us when we realise we give the Gospel so apologetically, chewing on our lips and whatnot! Aaaahhhh drives me nuts! Its like "noooooo I am not ashamed, I refuse to be ashamed, Christ died for me! So how come when I want to witness to friends from other religions its like um..um..um...here's Jesus Christ, I don't mean to offend you, I'm sorry don't mean to almost burden you, matter of fact I know you're going to reject this anyhow, but um..um..um..um..don't reject ME. **GAAAAAAAHHHHH!!** How twisted is that! In our hearts its like "NOOOO MAAN I KNOW BETTER THIS, SNAPPPP, these people are DYING!!!!"
Offering the Gospel watered-down is the WORST feeling ever, especially when in your heart, you really do love Christ!
I want to count it no cost and no loss for people to reject ME because they reject the Gospel. I want to stand and be stoned for WHO I love and believe in!
Maan, you all are in my prayers, May Christ teach us all to stand and be bold in who we are in The Father as He was! That we'll have that Paul conviction and courage!, we'll breathe to rep Christ so hard and so loud and so 1000% anguished for souls, that people query our sanity! Yessss I want to live a life POURED OUT!!!!

This is great.My church(EveryNation Tallahassee) was talking about the same thing, about believer's fear of man. We gotta be bold like Jesus was on earth.

Dis iz a real big help Pt 1

yo trip.this is good stuff.keep reppin the Christ and His glory.

Wha you saying is true hey. We are comfortable with discussing every thing else except for gods word. and when people attack us we whimper and have pity parties, and hat actually broadcasts o the whole world that we serve a weak master. We should stand up and shpw the world that we seve a supreme God, Yahweh. The Great I am.!

I love the way y'all put it down for Christ. It's an absolutely honor, privilege

Amen! Amen! and Amen! God bless you Trip. God is good!

Surfing the internet the other day, I found an article about science which was talking about how scientists think they've learned more about matter and antimatter and such. Pretty much, they tried to say they're coming closer to explaining 'why' we exist. (sounded more to me like 'how' rather than 'why'). Anyway, this isn't what struck me. What did strike me was the comments left by the readers. As anyone could guess, the comments were a heated debate over science vs God. This didn't surprise me whatsoever. It was nothing more than what I expected. I noticed something, though, while I was looking through and reading some of these comments. Beside every comment there were two buttons for others to click. One was a thumbs up button if you like what the comment said, the other was a thumbs down button if you didn't like what the comment said. What I noticed was that for many of the comments from people saying that God created everything and God is the answer, there were more thumbs down responses than thumbs up responses. But, why? It seems to me that people aren't opening their eyes and seeing. Now, the last sentence that you just read says: "It seems to me that people aren't opening their eyes and seeing." No, this isn't an incomplete sentence. I know you're probable thinking, "Seeing what?" Well, everything! The world, people, living things, everything! I agree, science can show a great deal of things. But all it shows is the 'how' and not the 'why'. It may tell 'how' man was created, but it cannot explain 'why' the things happened that caused it. The only answer is that there is a God: the God. But people don't see this. The ones who say there isn't cannot prove otherwise, yet want to tell us that say there is that we cannot prove there is one. If only they'd open their eyes and look around the proof is right in front of them everywhere they go. Everything that is here is so detailed, so complex, so pin point and perfectly crafted to work that something, someone had to have created it. How could something so complex be a result of an explosion or be a product of chance. It can't; it's impossible.Where is the science that proves otherwise? Sure, maybe this matter and antimatter that was spoken about in this article had something to do with human life, but who made it? Where did it come from? Why did it react or do something in such a way as to cause something so complex to be produced? It had to have came from somewhere. And then to go farther, whatever these things came from had to have came from something as well, and so on.

Now, back to the fact that there were more thumbs down responses. This tells me that there are more people out there that are willing to stand up for what they think and say that there is no God than there are people that will stand up for Christ. This is a scary thought! We Christians need to unite and work for Christ. It breaks my heart to think that there isn't an outstanding number of Christians that will step up and take a stand. Many of us say, 'Yes, I would stand up for Jesus' or 'I argue with people like the ones in that article and tell them God is real'. Okay, great! But it shouldn't take something like an article striking a nerve for us to say something. I mean, how many people speak about God to others regularly? We need to get out and say something! Many people's idea of standing up for Jesus is saying 'Yes, I believe in Jesus' when someone asks them. I say we need to stand up for him by speaking up and spreading the Word without being asked about it. Tell others. Then, if they don't want to hear it and want to argue and such, that's their choice. That's where free will comes in. At least you can say that you did your part. The Bible tells us in Matthew 28:19-20, "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen." In Mark 16:15 it says, "And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature." And again in Mark 13:10-11 it tells us, "And the gospel must first be published among all nations. But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost." We need to get out there and do something about this. Fight against those who say there is no God. There may be someone out there that isn't sure what to believe. You never know, one of these nonbelievers may tell them there isn't a God and they may believe it because no one was there to tell them otherwise. You could be the one to win them over for Christ just by simply telling them about Him. Christians, come on! Stand up for Christ! Don't be the minority under the nonbelievers like in the comments on the article.

-Jared Skinner
'J Skin'

BUT WE ALSO MUST REMEMBER WHEN WITNESSING TO OTHERS..THAT IT MAY NOT BE US WHO IS SUPPOSED TO LEAD THEM TO CHRIST...WE DON'T HAVE TO FEEL BAD THAT WHEN YOU GAVE YOU UTMOST EFFORT AND HIT THEM WITH THE HARDEST FACTS AND TRUTH REGARDING THE GOSPEL THEY STILLLL DIDN'T COME TO THE LORD THAT VERY MOMENT...OUR JOB IS TO DELIVER THE MESSAGE AND PLANT THE SEED AND GOD USES SOMEONE ELSE TO COME ALONG AND WATER IT AND WATER IT..UNTIL THE GOSPEL SPROUTS IN THEIR HEART AND THEY ACCEPT JESUS AS THEIR LORD AND SAVIOR AMEN!!!

Your answer was just what I nedeed. ItÂ?s made my day!