Who do you have in your life that would carry you to Jesus?

Real Dudes,
How’s the challenge been going? Have you been looking for a new face that could potentially develop into a familiar friend? Why is this important? If you are – or will be going through something difficult in the days ahead, then who would you have to help you through that time in your life? Consider the two passages below…what was the difference between the man laying on the mat, and the man laying on the porch?
Let me ask you this, could you name four men that would be willing to come and carry you to get you the help you need? Or would you struggle to think of four men? Three? Two? How about just one? My heart breaks for someone who would say “I have no one.” Men, that doesn’t have to be you. Isolation and withdrawal aren’t the answers. Get plugged into Ox Strong…get plugged into a solid Church. Place yourself around people who will be genuine when they say, “I’m here for you if you ever need anything.” And then you be there for them too in their time of need. Maybe it’s help through a surgery, or help through a spiritual battle, or help through a struggling marriage…whatever it is – who do you have to help carry you to Jesus when you can’t put together enough strength to get yourself there? 
Praying for each of us!!!
Nate

Mark 2:1-5 (NLT) When Jesus returned to Capernaum several days later, the news spread quickly that he was back home. 2 Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there was no more room, even outside the door. While he was preaching God’s word to them, 3 four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. 4 They couldn’t bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. Then they lowered the man on his mat, right down in front of Jesus. 5 Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “My child, your sins are forgiven.”

John 5:1-9a (NLT) Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days. 2 Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches. 3 Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed--lay on the porches. 5 One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?” 7 “I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else always gets there ahead of me.” 8 Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!” 9 Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking!

Songs: 
Carry You to Jesus by Steven Curtis Chapman
I Will Carry You by Ellie Holcomb