{"id":6236,"date":"2023-07-30T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6236"},"modified":"2023-07-25T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T15:38:10","slug":"come-and-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6236","title":{"rendered":"Come and see\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Continuing in John chapter 1\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>On the next day, He desired to go into Galilee, and He found Philip. And Jesus said to him, \u201cFollow Me.\u201d Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, \u201cWe have found Him of whom Moses in the Law and also the Prophets wrote\u2014Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.\u201d And Nathanael said to him, \u201cCan any good thing come out of Nazareth?\u201d Philip said to him, \u201cCome and see.\u201d (John 1.43 &#8211; 46, LSB)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The best evangelistic technique of all time: \u201cCome and see.\u201d How? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>By reading the Gospels with an open mind? That&#8217;s one way to &#8220;come and see,&#8221; but there are others&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>By coming to a spirit-filled gathering? When my daughter was in a now more closed country teaching in an international school, I preached in their large \u201cfellowship\u201d (not a \u201cchurch,\u201d mind you!). Of the 400 people there, at least half were new believers and seekers from that country, many of whom were attracted to the love and enthusiasm they sensed there. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>By observing a community of believers living life together? The blog <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5612\" target=\"_blank\">Blessed to Be a Blessing<\/a> talks about how a chemistry tutoring party in Kuala Lampur became a &#8220;come and see&#8221; experience. \u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. (Matthew 5.16, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, \u201cI have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.\u201d And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed. And the word of the Lord was spreading throughout the whole region. (Acts 13.47 &#8211; 49, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing in John chapter 1\u2026 On the next day, He desired to go into Galilee, and He found Philip. And Jesus said to him, \u201cFollow Me.\u201d Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, \u201cWe have found Him of whom Moses in the Law and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6236\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Come and see\u2026<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1CA","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6242,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6236\/revisions\/6242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}