The One by Travis Moffitt of WVIW

I must admit that I am a sci-fi movie buff.  I have seen all three installments of The Lord of The Rings.  A great day for me would include all six Star Wars episodes.  And yes I have enjoyed every Star Trek movie except the first one.  I like the monsters, the space ships, and the laser guns.  I am fascinated by the special effects.  And I enjoy watching our real life dilemmas play out in a land far, far away.

If you can relate then you will remember one such dilemma in the 2nd Star Trek movie, The Wrath of Khan.  At the grand finale of the movie, after the big battle has ensued between The Starship Enterprise and Khan, First Officer Spock sets out to single handedly save his ship.  The Enterprise had taken a beating.  Someone had to enter the power reactor to fix the hyper drive.  Entering this chamber with all its radiation would ensure certain death for any such individual.  At the critical moment, Spock goes in.  In his final dialog, as he sits inside the reactor, his life long friend and Captain James Kirk sits outside watching his friend die.  Spock articulates his logical theology: “The needs of the many out way the needs of the one, or the few.”

So often this becomes the living mantra of our world.  What is best for the masses is of greater priority than what is best for only one person, or just a few.  At least that’s the logical position.  The opposing view would say that we should value the individual; that sometimes the needs of the one out way the needs of the many.  I mean didn’t Jesus come to reach even just one person?  In Christendom we regularly proclaim Christ’s individual love.  While this love of Christ for each one is true, it is only part of the truth.

The Christ view would say that meeting the needs of the many lie in meeting the needs of the one.  In John Chapter 4 we see a story where Jesus “had to go through Samaria.”  Along His way he meets a woman at Jacob’s well.  In their dialog He meets her deepest need, her need for salvation.  As she realizes that she is speaking with the Christ, she goes to tell everyone in her village.  For her this could have meant certain death, at least socially.  She was not a well received woman in her town.  She visited the well at a time when the other women had already gone home.  She had previously had five husbands and was now living with a man who she had not even married.  An adulterous woman.  A societal outcast.  Now running through town proclaiming the Christ was sitting at Jacob’s well.  And her proclamations worked.

John 4:39 says, “Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Him because of the woman’s testimony.”  The needs of the many were now being met by the meeting of the needs of the one.  Jesus had saved her and now she could bring many to Him.

At Worldwide Voice In the Wilderness we are each aware of our own personal need for a savior.  We are also very aware that we have been saved and that salvation bids us go into all the world.  We must take our met need and reach the masses.  I was that one and now I must go to the many.

You are also that one.  If your needs have been met by Christ then you are critical in the reaching of the many around you and around the world.  In this way Christ allows us to be co-laborers with Him in reaching the world.  You and I are saved so that we can carry salvation to others.  We are blessed so that we can be a blessing to others.  The Gospel is therefore spread through group participation of individuals reaching the masses.

To be a one among many reaching the world, visit our website at wviw.com and learn how you can join us in prison or oversees.  So many are waiting for you today.

Travis Moffitt
WVIW.com
Associate Director