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Well, here's my long awaited blog. Alan is going to hate me because it is going to be really short (as I am blogging at work during my last 5 minutes of the workday). I might just rant a little. What ever happened to evangelism? When people think of evangelism, I think they think of Robert Tilton (see pastorgas.com for lots of fun, by the way) or one of those guys that went down in the 80's for fraud. In my job, I get to talk to pastors non-stop, pretty much all day long. One thing I've noticed: evangelism is on the back burner... I know that from what they tell me they spend on it usually and what outreaches they do as a church. It drives me crazy that we keep the truth of Christ shut up in a building! We keep the "salt" in the shaker, the candle under a bushel, and try to hide what God intended to be "a city sitting on a hill." What ever happened to personally sharing our faith in respectful ways with other people? What ever happened to doing something with the gospel?
The scary thing is I don't know what happened to it in my own life either. The cares of this world get to us all, and I'm no exception from the rule. Sometimes I wonder if we really believe this stuff. How would I live if I really bought it? How would you live?
Robert
| posted by Robert | 6:39 PM | |