During the many years that I served as the Vice President of Baptist Church Planters, I traveled to churches throughout the United States to not only represent BCP but to preach God’s Word. Often I was invited to speak in a church where no one knew me before I arrived. I was telling one of my preacher friends about something hysterical that happened to me one Sunday.

Coming to a church where I had never spoken before, I walked in and discovered two ladies talking in the foyer. As I made my way in, the one lady stopped talking with her friend and welcomed me. I thought she knew I was the guest speaker, but she surely didn’t! I nearly burst out laughing at what she said.

“Welcome to our church. I was just telling my friend that we have a guest speaker today and I hope he isn’t boring!”

I held the laughter in and simply said, “Glad to be here. I hope he isn’t boring either!”

Can you imagine the look on those ladies’ faces when I was introduced and presented as the guest speaker for the day. I never let on about the pre-service conversation! That poor lady didn’t read the advertisements that the pastor had printed. She didn’t recognize me. She didn’t know who I was.

That was not important actually. However! I cannot imagine the hearts of the people who actually saw the Lord during His public ministry, saw His miracles, heard His teaching, watched His life and yet didn’t recognize Him. Listen to this amazing assessment of this situation.

“He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not” (John 1:10).

It really didn’t matter much whether that lady recognized the speaker or not. There was One far greater, however, Who came to this world and wasn’t recognized nor is He still recognized. He even created the world, but the world “knew Him not.” We are living in a mission field. An open, hostile, intentional rejection is deepening in our land. We need to be intentional in our witness and different in our lifestyle because His world still doesn’t know Him.

Think about this today my friends: May our lives and testimony reflect the fact that we know Him!