Every week on that corny game show, “Let’s Make a Deal,” Monte Hall would pick out his contestants by shouting (all together), “Come on down!”

When friends or relatives purchase a new home, they generally invite you to, “C’mon over,” to share in their excitement.

The first time you gazed at the Grand Canyon you may have called someone to say, “I know you’ve seen the photos, but you gotta see it for yourself!” The Grand Canyon is an unusual sight, but what’s even more unusual are the people born in Arizona who have never seen it.

When two of John the Baptist’s disciples asked Jesus, “Where are you staying,” He replied, “Come and see” (John 1:39). When Phillip invited Nathanael to meet Messiah Phillip simply said, “Come and see” (John 1:46). When Jesus asked the mourners where they laid the body of Lazarus they said, “Come and see” (John11:34). Debates were unnecessary. It’s easy to say, “Come and see.”

When meeting people we often say, “Pleased to meet you.” When we order dinner in a restaurant we might say, “I’ll have the number eleven.” When the waiter asks if we need anything else we usually say, “No thank you.” We simply speak up without freaking out. These are all simple one-liners we often repeat on a regular basis.

A lot of people have made assessments about the Grand Canyon without ever going there. They know nothing of the enormous expanse, the hiking, the elk walking through the parking lot, the funny squirrels that beg to eat from your hand, or how people from the Orient outnumber everyone else in the park; until someone says, “Come and see.”

Like Arizonans who have never experienced the Grand Canyon, the majority of people residing in Black Canyon City have never entered Calvary Chapel BCC. They may have heard good, bad, ugly or nothing at all. They may never know much about the miracle working God we have experienced until we say, “Come and see.”

People to People
Pastor Huck