Just Cross the Room?
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
I’ve been thinking about outreach and that “E” word, evangelism. I know, it conjures up all kinds of thoughts, mostly fearful ones, and include an image of guys standing on the street corner with bullhorns, shouting at passerbys. Is that really what we should be thinking about when it comes to reaching beyond ourselves to those who don’t know Him? Do we fall into the same category as the folks who knock on your door and try to engage you in religious conversation with no relationship? No, but we do cringe at the thought of becoming like that. And rightly so, I think.
Jesus told us to go and tell the world about Him, beginning with those closest to us geographically. But how do we do that? By being real. And by honestly caring about someone else, anyone else, enough that we would just ”cross the room” as Bill Hybels puts it, and say hello. Jesus cared with compassion that few of us have. His compassion drove Him to obedience on the Cross. Is is possible that with a measure of His compassion that we could care enough about others to the point that we would temporarily leave our friends and find a way to establish a friendship that could lead to that person’s changed eternity? How I would love for that to be all of our lifestyles. PB
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