You may have been deceived. All these years, how you’ve perceived it to be, its prerequisites, what you thought it involved…they may all be wrong. And in this 4 minute read I’ll paint a pretty picture and hopefully, you’ll see that you’ve been evangelizing your whole life…but not enough times about what matters most.
Evangelism is not the end product of a three-year bible school, a forty-day dry fast or even a special calling. It is not the reserve of spiritually mature prayer warriors or exuberant Christians with no life outside the church. It is not even exclusive to Christianity. If you ask me, ‘evangelism’ is as secular a word as ‘eating’, gossiping, texting, chatting, or jogging.
Evangelism is talking about something that excites you. Simple as that. When you were a baby, and your favorite food was ‘Tom brown’, each time you giggled when you were having it, you were evangelizing its deliciousness. Now that you are grown and can use the internet, each time you put a comment up, or recommend a page, or like a post, you are in fact evangelizing.
Scratch the thought that an evangelist is a blue long-sleeve-shirt-wearing, anti-cosmetic, anti-pork eating pious person who has a Bible at hand at any given time. You’re an evangelist even in a bikini and a g-string. The question is; what are you evangelizing?
Last week my friend Freda sent this text;
I KNOW THAT JESUS CHRIST CAME FOR ME. I TRUST THAT YOU KNOW IT TOO. WHY NOT TELL THAT OTHER PERSON WHO DOES NOT KNOW IT YET?
It’s so simple (96% of the words are single syllables), yet it packs so much truth.
For all the reasons why you might think that talking about a God –who doesn’t easily fit into your compartmentalized fast-paced life- is not your thing, I have a short story for you. Read the rest of this entry »
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