I'm going out tonight.
I've heard it said that leadership is simply influence.
If it's true that the difference between sin and evangelism is influence.
I believe that the only way we can reach those who don't know Christ is to engage them on their terms and, most of the time, on their turf. This being true, how do you be involved without being influenced? Lead without looking down? Buy in without selling out?
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- Chris Morton
- I am a one man wrecking machine, perennially single, amateur theologian, overthinker, ambitious and ready to take it to the man. The statements on this website do not represent the views or opinions or the Oak Hills Church or Journey Fellowship.
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For the sake of dialogging...
"I believe that the only way we can reach those who don't know Christ is to engage them on their terms and, most of the time, on their turf."
I don't think I agree with this statement. "...on their turf" I believe is a valid statement, here I'm thinking of Paul's "becoming all things to all people."
But I don't believe that we engage them on their terms. Christ did not come to the world on our terms. The Spirit does not relate to us on our terms. Truth stands on it's own merit on it's terms. "Then they will know the Truth and the Truth will set them free."
We read this past week about our struggle not being against flesh and bones but against the rulers and powers and spiritual forces of this dark world. We don't come to terms with the dark world in order to be light. Light enters the darkness and where there is perfection there can be no imperfection. If we deceive ourselves, thinking we are light when we are actually darkness how much more is the darkness.
I believe that we first reach those who don't know Christ by living in that love relationship with God.
Then we testify to that love by loving one another. "The world will know we are His disciples by our love for one another" (the love Christ-followers share with one another).
And we reach the lost by loving our neighbor as ourself. But loving our neighbor, without first a true love relationship with God and a proper love for God's kingdom community, is just social work...not evangelism.
And the world is not rescued by social work, it's redeemed by knowing the loving God.
quick post-midnight ramblings...thoughts?
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