Different Ways to Reach People

We are often like a tram travelling on the same tracks.

Jesus was different.

Sometimes he communicated with parables, but sometimes with harsh rebukes.
He often led people to faith by healing their illnesses. Only after they were healed did they come to faith.

When he healed the sick, he didn't just have one method.

A leper asked for healing.

Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Mk 1:41 NASB95

He healed a blind man in a very unusual way.

Taking the blind man by the hand, He brought him out of the village; and after spitting on his eyes and laying His hands on him, He asked him, “Do you see anything?” Mk 8:23 NASB95

A royal official begged Jesus to come to his home and heal his son.

“Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.” The man took Jesus at his word and departed.
While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. Jn 4:50–51 NIV

We also read how Jesus sometimes gave an instruction or command.

But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralysed man, “Get up, take your mat and go home.”

Then the man got up and went home. Mt 9:6–7 NIV

God understands us. He created you and me.

God has very different ways of helping different people, healing us and awakening faith in us.

Some find God by studying the Bible. Others by receiving a miraculous healing in a meeting.

Many Muslims come through miraculous healings, and many others see Jesus in a dream.

How did you find your way to Jesus? There are so many different answers to this question.