REPENT AND RETURN
People in our day tend to look for miracles. The strong catholic traditions mixed with “spectacular gifts” are leading many people to believe that saints, virgins, and angels are actively working for the sake of those who need a miracle.
“Repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away”. That is what
Peter told the people that heard that the lame man who used to sit at
the gate of the temple was walking (Acts 3:19).
People in our day tend to look for miracles. The strong catholic
traditions mixed with “spectacular gifts” are leading many people to
believe that saints, virgins, and angels are actively working for the
sake of those who need a miracle. All over Latin America it is easy to
find radio and TV programs where so-called “gifted messengers of God”
perform all kind of miracles.
Peter and John faced the temptation of being perceived by the crowds as performers of miracles: v. 12 “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this, or why do you gaze at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made him walk?”
The powerful part of the true history of Divinely wrought miracles is that Peter focuses people’s attention on God’s messengers (the prophets and the Old Testament), on God’s plan (the death and resurrection of the Messiah), and on the essential need for the people to repent and to return. As a result of this event (4:4): “Many of those who had heard the message believed”.
Our radio programs, as Peter’s message, turn people’s attention to God's Word, and to the message of salvation. Every month all our missionaries, in different countries in Latin America, are finding more radio stations willing to transmit the true and only message of salvation. Our hope is that many are truly placing their trust in Jesus Christ alone, and not in a weak and worldly false belief.
by Daniel Sandoval
SWM Ministry Coordinator
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