Over the month of September, City Bible Forum are encouraging Christians around Australia to try and have 5 spiritual conversations over this month. In fact, God loves using us in the situation we’re in right now. We don’t need to pretend to be someone else. We don’t have to set the bar so high to partake in God’s mission. Great if you can be that person, BUT it’s not what everyday evangelism looks like in practice. Someone that can make babies laugh, birds chirp and flowers grow just by pronouncing God’s love with charm, charisma and confidence.
Someone who has hilarious anecdotes and metaphors that will just stick to the hippocampus. Someone who has a grasp on nearly every discipline. Someone who can knock down arguments left, right and centre. I suspect that many Christians think of evangelism as needing to be that kind of person in our speech and rhetoric. There’s only so much time and brainpower available to us each day, and becoming the armchair apologist isn’t high on our priority list. Proven the existence of God lately? Or perhaps solved the enigma of evil and suffering? How’s your grasp of the original languages? Confident when someone asks you about higher criticism? And do you have a beautifully gift wrapped answer when the question of sexuality comes up?Ĭhances are you ain’t got time for dat, and the vast majority of us never will.
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