We must understand that Jesus failed often in his public ministry. You remember when he went to his hometown of Nazareth. The Bible says that he could do no mighty works there because of their unbelief. He struck out in his own hometown. Then he went into the region of Gadarenes and he cast the demons out of the man into the pigs, and then the pigs plunged over the cliff and into the water and they drowned and the citizens of that community came to Jesus and asked him to leave. They did not want him around. More than once Jesus struck out in his efforts to win people to himself and to faith in God. I think that we need to face the facts squarely that there are some people who are offended by Jesus, and there are some people who will not welcome his intrusion into their lives. And if you are involved in evangelism, you can expect that some people will say no to you just as they said no to Jesus, for the servant is no greater than his master.
