In a broken culture Christians can evoke requests from unbelievers by living peacefully in uncertain, confidently in stressful and hopefully in final times. Christ’s peace guards our hearts and minds in the first Philippians 4:6-7; Christ’s prayer keeps us faithful to God in the second Mark 14:32-42; and Christ’s resurrection empowers our assurance in the third Philippians 1:20-21, II Corinthians 4:16-5:10, Hebrews 2:14-15.
Opportunities to witness, then evangelize, abound. When a birth or death occurs. When a move is contemplated or completed. When a person expresses faith in God, doubt about God, or questions relating to God, Christ or the church. When employment is gained, lost or needed. When marriage or divorce occurs. When a true or false statement about God or Christ is heard. And on and on. Roy Weece was the only man I’ve known who could begin a conversation about Jesus with a perfect stranger when standing in a line at a cash register. Roscoe Maguire is the only man I’ve know who can walk up to a perfect stranger and begin a joke that gets and keeps attention and draws laughter when finished. We may lack Roy and Roscoe’s spontaneity in witnessing about Jesus, or telling a joke, but we have no fewer opportunities than they in doing so. What we lack is the initiative to begin what the Holy Spirit can carry forward to HIS satisfaction. Consider Blair’s suggestion to develop a spiritual 30-second opening statement: when the weather is nice or stormy; when a crisis or prosperity occurs in the country; when the sun warms or cold freezes. For example, “I’m glad Jesus is my Savior and Lord…because…. Consider that Blair has in mind helping a person find work, but Christians want the lost to know how to be forgiven, how to love God as a Father, Jesus as a Lord and the Holy Spirit as our Life Companion. Would we want to share Blair’s frustration in failing to help a man find work KNOWING we failed to help someone live eternally in God’s Presence? NOTE. This writer has a 3-part lesson that gives interested Christians a simple tool that turns witnessing into evangelism. You memorize nothing. You simply read with the prospect messages that stress a single point of scripture: only those whose sins are forgiven by Jesus enter God’s presence. Yours for the asking. My privilege to send it to you in the hope that you succeed in seizing an opportunity to turn a witnessing event into an evangelistic conversation. God bless! Fini
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Archives
May 2024
Categories
All
|