URL: http://adventuresinchristianity.com/?L=blogs.blog&article=3609Date Tuesday, June 10th 2008, 11:43 AM Icon 86 Date 4
Too scared or too lost?
My friends, there is nothing so sad as one who professes Christ as their Savior and yet has no love for the lost no desire to see them rescued they don’t make every attempt they can to rescue souls!
You have NO EXCUSE, you who makes arguments about why you cannot share your faith. The training is available, people who love to train other believers are available the LW, WOTM, WOTMR, OJS, CYC, FWT, AA and many, many other websites are brimming with explanations and encouragements on how, when and where to share your faith there is NO EXCUSE you remaining mute.
So let me help you understand your real problem by saying that when a single day goes by that I have not in some way shared my faith I know I have “played a very poor part as a Christian.”
For YEARS I YEARNED to share my faith with people , as every Believer does, and I paid DEARLY for my blundering bull-in-the-china-shop manner. And so, when I had nearly all but given up and begged God to show me, to explain to me, WHY IT IS SO HARD to preach the gospel, the Spirit of God lead me to WayoftheMaster.com and I got my answer: I was doing it wrong. Plain and simple. I, ME, myself, I was making it hard. The Gospel is so simple but most of us have missed it becausehow to share the Gospel was lsot for quite some time in Evangelicalism. And it is still not well used, yet. I am very grateful to see the latest SBC convention is seeking to remedy that with Kirk Cameron’s new film, “Fireproof” (great job Kirk!) and the Way of the Master training (thank you Ray!). So once you understan, as i did, what th eissue is (you) then you can know ehere to begin loking for the remedy. When you keep driving your car into park benches, trees and walls you eventually either give up or you GET HELP! Pick the latter…
A young friend of mine is off sharing his faith now confident he knows what he is doing. But rest assured he was a mess when he first started! Did he give up? NO! He sought out the nearest WOTM trained AIC member and drove over an hour every week on Fridays for months to learnhand on! And learn he did too! I am happy to say he is now Biblically trained to share his faith and does so, often.
So what is your hold up?
Why do you keep excusing your lack of will?
Why do you keep accepting that it’s for someone else to do?
Why do you continue to deny you don’t know what you’re doing and that’s why you are afraid?Yes, it’s as simple as that. You are afraid you’ll mess it up. And you would be right. If you ave not been trained don’t get behind the wheel of an airplane, PLEASE. and if that makes sense to be trained in how to keep people safe in the air then why would you try and “wing” it (or give up from winging it so badly) with the message that saves souls?
Listen, the WayoftheMaster.com and LivingWaters.com websites have the resources you need. Listen to Hell’s Best Kept Secret and True and False Conversion there. And, after doing so, if you aren’t on fire to learn more then you’d better check your pulse, and be serously concerned for your own soul. For the man who has no desire to see souls save is not saved himself.
We don’t need to wait for a large group of people you should not only preach and tract at events ignoring the neighbors or the coffee guy.
Hey, are you aware you can actually speak about Jesus on *gulp* SCHOOL Property? YES! It’s true! 🙂 I have, many times!
Since learning how to effectively make a sinner understand God’s grace by first taking him through the Law of Yahweh I have become more and more aware of just how FEW Christians there are in this world. I would rather have us all blundering about than silent, wouldn’t you? But we not as the key to sharing your faith has been found again, so learn it, like those Pastors did at the latest Southern babptist Convention.
Be Deliberate, be effective, be obedient.
Tract up, learn up and then GET UP and SPEAK!
You just may learn to regret not doing so. I pray you will be glad the moment you see the face of Jesus glad and relieved you obeyed Him.
Patrick J. Burwell
Patrick@OnlyJesusSaves.com
OnlyJesusSaves.com
