Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Our Reading titled Keep It Simple was written by Patricia Rabin.

The email was short but urgent.

Request Salvation.

I would like to know Jesus. What an astonishing

request. Unlike reluctant friends and family who hadn't yet received Christ, this person didn't

need convincing. My task was to quiet my self-doubt about evangelizing and simply share key concepts, scriptures, and trusted resources

that address this man's plea. From there, by faith, God would lead his journey.

Philip demonstrated such simple evangelism when on a desert road he met the treasurer of Ethiopia,

who was reading aloud from the book of Isaiah.

Do you understand what you are reading, Philip asked in Acts chapter 8?

How can I? the man answered, unless someone explains it to me.

Invited to clarify, Philip began with that very passage of

scripture and told him the good news about Jesus. Starting where people are and keeping evangelism

simple, as Philip showed, can be an effective way to share Christ. In fact, as the two traveled along,

the man said, look, here is water, and asked to be baptized. Philip complied, and the man went on

his way rejoicing. I rejoiced when the email writer replied that he had repented of sin, confessed Christ, found a church, and believed he was born again.

What a beautiful start.

Now may God take him higher.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Acts chapter 8, verses 26 through 35.

Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, go south to the road, the desert road, that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.

So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all

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