It’s a hot summer day and you’ve decided to give away some cold bottles of water to people in your town. You don’t stop and offer the couple sitting in their air conditioned Mercedes a bottle and you bypass the many people dining at restaurants along the street. Are you being uncaring and insensitive? Nope! You’re saving the ‘gift’ you have to offer for someone who needs it…someone thirsty. The same principle is helpful when sharing your faith and is the topic of today’s ‘Readables‘ entry.
Chris Walker, who heads up Evangelism Coach and has been featured here before, wrote an article titled “What Does Spiritual Thirst Look Like” and it sure seems like a Readable to me. He starts by sharing how a pastor he had been coaching viewed sharing the gospel. “His image of personal evangelism was all about making a monologue presentation, rather than a conversation centered around a person’s spiritual thirst.”
Chris then explains what spiritual thirst can look like and how we can utilize our awareness of it to more effectively communicate the message of salvation. If I haven’t made you want to read his article by now, that’s OK, because you’re probably not ‘thirsty’ for this type of evangelism assistance. Maybe you might be better off checking out some of these other categories on this site.
- Encouragement Efforts
- Character Challenge
- Comments on Quotes
- Take a Chance (Though on Share the Savior, this is not a site category like the others, but if you’ve ever ridden a bus, you might like it)
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.