“For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost. Lk19.10 NKJV
It is one thing to share Christ with those already in your life. It is another, to aggressively seek an opportunity with someone who isn’t. What I mean is this. Telling your children about the value of loving God would naturally follow the display of that value, because they have grown up watching it everyday. Our enjoyment of God in Christ should exhibit and express the beauty of knowing and loving Him. Evangelism in this fashion, is simply declaring or explaining His value when someone who has seen it in us, inquires about it. Of course, if the manner of our living and loving fails to communicate the glory of God, we may take it that our own enjoyment of that glory needs attention. The efficacy of ones witness will usually match the effervescence of one's worship and walk.
But coming back to the notion that it is one thing to share Christ with your family, friends and neighbors and another, to seek opportunities to do this with strangers. By example, Christ came to seek and save that which was lost. He left His home, went out of His way, in order to find us, and help us, find our way back to the Father. I take it that we also, should at least from time to time, go out of our way and actively seek to love others. And not so much with words but with actions. Have we ever taken a homeless person to dinner; invited a lonely widow to lunch; stopped by a nursing home to find that someone tucked away in the corner of old age, who has no one to love because they have out lived them all. Opportunities abound to bear witness to the beauty of God. Opportunities abound, but many times they must be sought before they can be found. 4/27/07 ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
