When I woke up this morning, I rose with a question resting in my heart. I found myself retracing the landscape of my life—remembering those who encouraged me, challenged me, and helped shape who I am today. Thank God for so many faithful witnesses.

So let me ask you:

Who taught you about Jesus?

I’ve come to realize that who taught us about Jesus has a great deal to do with what we know about Him—what we believe about Him—and whether or not we choose to follow Him at all.

Listen.

The greatest evangelists in Scripture are not those who merely studied the Messiah, but those who encountered Him for themselves and then went about telling the story of what they experienced.

We tend to give the most weight to those with education, credentials, or polished abilities. But I want to suggest to you—like Jesus said to Martha—“one thing is needful.”

Have you been with Jesus?

Have you witnessed for yourself His grace and His power?
Has He changed your life?
Did He heal you?
Did He pick you up when you were down?
Did He deliver you?
Did He comfort you—keep you—when you couldn’t keep yourself?

Have you been with Jesus?

You all know that I’m inclined to study, and I believe study is an act of obedience to the command to love God with all our heart, our mind, and our strength. But life has taught me this:

Talking about Jesus is not the same as talking to Jesus.
Reading Scripture is not the same as sitting under a text and allowing it to read you.
Learning someone else’s story is not the same as telling your own.

Sadly, many of us learned about Jesus from people who barely knew Him—or didn’t know Him at all. And I wonder how much that has distorted our view of who He really is.

So I’ll ask again:

Have you been with Jesus?

Remember that story.
Rejoice in your story.
Repeat your story.

Tell it—and watch how it resonates with those God places in your path.

The greatest evangelists in Scripture were not the scholars or the scribes, but ordinary people just like you and me who met a Man who was God in the flesh.

Have you been with Jesus?

Tell your story.

“The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,
Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.”
John 4:28–30

Good morning. I love you all.

ihs,
just adam