THERE IS NO SET WAY TO SHARE THE GOSPEL
WHY WE DON'T LISTEN to God when He tells us that there isn't any one style of sharing the Gospel of Christ with someone I don't know!
The Gospel of Christ should be so personal and individual that no two stories are the same, and yet we try to generalize what happens deep inside of us as we do battle with self and the influence of this world over us before we come to Christ. It is just wrong for us to down play what God does within us before we come to a decision about Christ as Lord of our lives. Each one of us has a different story and a different pathway that God makes for our hearts to be convinced...what we should be doing is going over that story in our hearts and minds and learning it well so that we can readily share it with someone when the time comes.
The Acts church started to find out just how individual those relationships were with God calling various lives through some very traumatic things happening in lives. Most of these people were scattered because they had to run for their very lives. They may have run , but as they ran into area where they were safe from Roman hatred they also brought with them the Gospel of Christ. There was never any one way to share the gospel, and that is why there are so many different styles of services throughout the world.
God has placed within each of us a different kind of ministry from the ways that we speak about the Gospel to people to the ways that we love someone in Christ. We are not all the same and yet we all have the same intent. Lately I have been given the opportunity to see some of these various styles of sharing the Gospel just in this community, and if you look closely it can be very exciting to see how God is working through us as a church. You see our hearts have different triggers that sets us off to do a work that Christ has placed within our hearts. It may only be you disposition and personality toward people during a day that is used by God to make people realize that God exists within you, or it may be a full blown program of out reach to a group of people...none of that matters in the long run, but it does matter that you allow God to work through you in your own style and place.
While what we say and what we do is so very important , but still the most important thing of all is that we are real to the world around us. We cannot memorize or try to live a life that is written down for us to follow...what we can do is to live a chaged life from the one that we had before because of our relationship with Christ; and then share that new life with those around us. Are you ready to share that new person that you have become with someone around you? May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
The Gospel of Christ should be so personal and individual that no two stories are the same, and yet we try to generalize what happens deep inside of us as we do battle with self and the influence of this world over us before we come to Christ. It is just wrong for us to down play what God does within us before we come to a decision about Christ as Lord of our lives. Each one of us has a different story and a different pathway that God makes for our hearts to be convinced...what we should be doing is going over that story in our hearts and minds and learning it well so that we can readily share it with someone when the time comes.
The Acts church started to find out just how individual those relationships were with God calling various lives through some very traumatic things happening in lives. Most of these people were scattered because they had to run for their very lives. They may have run , but as they ran into area where they were safe from Roman hatred they also brought with them the Gospel of Christ. There was never any one way to share the gospel, and that is why there are so many different styles of services throughout the world.
God has placed within each of us a different kind of ministry from the ways that we speak about the Gospel to people to the ways that we love someone in Christ. We are not all the same and yet we all have the same intent. Lately I have been given the opportunity to see some of these various styles of sharing the Gospel just in this community, and if you look closely it can be very exciting to see how God is working through us as a church. You see our hearts have different triggers that sets us off to do a work that Christ has placed within our hearts. It may only be you disposition and personality toward people during a day that is used by God to make people realize that God exists within you, or it may be a full blown program of out reach to a group of people...none of that matters in the long run, but it does matter that you allow God to work through you in your own style and place.
While what we say and what we do is so very important , but still the most important thing of all is that we are real to the world around us. We cannot memorize or try to live a life that is written down for us to follow...what we can do is to live a chaged life from the one that we had before because of our relationship with Christ; and then share that new life with those around us. Are you ready to share that new person that you have become with someone around you? May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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