In today’s Comments on Quotes article, I won’t be doing much reflection because the quote, from Joe Aldrich’s Lifestyle Evangelism, says so much itself. Here’s what he wrote…
“Positionally, the believer stands blameless before God because of Christ’s substitutionary death. Practically, blamelessness is a verdict reached by those who observe a life and compare it to a standard. Such a person or group has credibility, the first essential for effective evangelism. We must be good news before we share it.
When an individual, a family, or a body of believers are moving together toward wholeness (holiness), a credible life style emerges (blamelessness), and their potential for effective witness (beauty) increases dramatically. Because this is true, evangelism is a way of living beautifully and opening one’s web of relationships to include the nonbeliever.“
My simple takeaway of his quote is this…if living a more Christ like life is our goal, out of a deepening love for God and the people around us, we will become more likely to have an impact with the Gospel, among those He brings into our lives.
What’s Next?
This is just one short article of many on this site, along with a number of pages, so here are a few other thing you might want to check out.
- Comments on Quotes is a section of this website with 21 articles from 11 different books.
- Loving Your Neighbor might be a great place to go in light of today’s post.
- Training Tips do just that…give you help becoming a better communicator of your faith.
- One of my favorites – Top 10 Reasons to Prefer Evangelism over Riding a Bus
A Motive for the Christ Like Life
In today’s Comments on Quotes article, I won’t be doing much reflection because the quote, from Joe Aldrich’s Lifestyle Evangelism, says so much itself. Here’s what he wrote…
“Positionally, the believer stands blameless before God because of Christ’s substitutionary death. Practically, blamelessness is a verdict reached by those who observe a life and compare it to a standard. Such a person or group has credibility, the first essential for effective evangelism. We must be good news before we share it.
When an individual, a family, or a body of believers are moving together toward wholeness (holiness), a credible life style emerges (blamelessness), and their potential for effective witness (beauty) increases dramatically. Because this is true, evangelism is a way of living beautifully and opening one’s web of relationships to include the nonbeliever.“
My simple takeaway of his quote is this…if living a more Christ like life is our goal, out of a deepening love for God and the people around us, we will become more likely to have an impact with the Gospel, among those He brings into our lives.
What’s Next?
This is just one short article of many on this site, along with a number of pages, so here are a few other thing you might want to check out.