After not posting for a long while (due to university holidays, the presence of coursework and an exam and so on) I now find myself well and truly back into the swing of blogging. Two posts in two days: not bad given my past posting rate huh?
Anyway, I thought I'd have a little natter about evangelism today. Clearly it's not going to be possible to say everything that I want to about evangelism. It's a huge area with so much ground that I could cover, but I did want to touch on it as we find ourselves on the eve of Essential (Warwick CU's mission week, which starts tomorrow - well later on today as it's now the early hours!).
I've been thinking a lot about evangelism recently and in particular about why I haven't been involved in it more and why I'm so rubbish at it. It's the kind of thing that's easy to get daunted by I think and perhaps the hardest part is getting started. To get started you need good motivation. So why exactly do we as Christians tell others about Jesus?
My favourite quote about is evangelism comes from Charles Spurgeon who said that evangelism is simply "one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread". This is so true - we're simply pointing other people in the direction of where they can get exactly what they need. The trouble is, most people don't realise they need it (the Bible says that they are blinded from the light - ask me if you want the reference). Which is perhaps one reason why some people get rather annoyed by evangelistic approaches from Christians - they don't see the need for any of it. However, we should want to see others turn to God as He commands us to love others and if we truly love everyone (yep, even our enemies) would we leave them to die in their sin? (as the Bible says that they will without knowing Him) Matthew 28 (verse 16 onwards) is the key passage that commands believers to go out and tell others.
Anyway, that's just a very brief outline of the motivations for evangelism, constituting a very small part of what I could say about evangelism. Maybe I'll come back to it at a later date, but for now it's time to put this theory into practice in the shape of Essential.
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Life. Anything that matters to or interests me. Nothing's ruled in or out. I'll attempt to mix the shallow throw-away thoughts with some that are deeper and more meaningful. I'll try to be as personal as possible - given that this can be read by anyone worldwide - to keep it real, but also try to draw out more general thoughts to make it as relevant as possible to others.
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I've been blogging since my university days when I realised that I enjoyed the non-deadline-driven creative writing opportunity that it provides. Even if no-one else reads my postings, I find writing blog entries to be an amazing way of collating and structuring my thoughts and getting my introverted ideas 'out there'. If other people read my ponderings too, as I know at least a few do from time to time, then that's a bonus - I hope you find them challenging, encouraging and entertaining.
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