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Okay, I am still stuck on the Bud Light sign. You remember, the Bud Light sign in the night club where I attended church. But this time, I am stuck on it for a different reason. When Jesus called us to come follow Him, He declared that He was the Light in the darkness and that we were to follow the Light-Him. And when He told us to make Disciples, He gave us a plan for doing so.
When Jesus gave us the plan for making disciples, He said that it was to be life on life, one at a time, doing life together. He gave no instruction or plan for mass reproduction. Instead, He instructed them to love among themselves (John 16-17) and to spend life doing life everyday together so that as long as there is day, they do not fall away from the faith, but instead stir one another up by way of reminder (Heb 3, 2 Peter 1).
So perhaps the thought of calling people to follow a BUD Light might be exactly what is needed. NO! not the drink. But a call that says, get your Buddy, you know…the one God has entrusted to you, and walk in the Light together. Follow the Light together. Follow the Light in Your Bud and find more of Him together. Be a BUD LIGHT-a light for you Buddy.
God’s plan from the beginning was that we walk in the Light, not in darkness. But it was also His plan that we do life together with another. Not with a ton of people. Go back and read John 13-17 and see for yourselves. He was all about telling His disciples to stick together as 11 and to show the world they are His by how they love and serve each other. In fact, He says that by loving another this way, washing their feet and clinging to the Word, that the whole world will come to know Him. Pretty backwards thinking…that by loving a few, the many might know. But it was His plan. That buds…walking in the Light together, might lead others to know the Light.
So maybe a BUD LIGHT sign might be just the sign we need in church. Not to draw us to drink, but instead to be reminder that we are to make disciples, by finding one, focusing on the one and reproducing the Light in that one. A Bud…a Light.

John 17:9-10
"I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom Thou hast given Me; for they are Thine; and all things that are Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine; and I have been glorified in them.

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