Ouch...Nuff said

Keith Green - Asleep In The Light

Quote of the week

The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become. -- Henry Martyn

This Guy Gets It!

Watch this video all the way through. The last four words of this video are shocking!

Quote of the Week

“Evangelism is not salesmanship It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is reporting good news.” - Richard C. Halverson

Witnessing Tip #1

Always, always, always carry tracts where ever you go. As Charles Spurgeon said, “Get good striking tracts, or none at all.” First and foremost, get tracts that thoroughly explain the Gospel. Don’t get ones that are vague or water down the Gospel. I steer away from booklet tracts; they are too long. I personally like money tracts. The $3, million, $0, and billion dollar bills are my personal favorites. They are a joy to hand out. People gladly take them and have even asked for more to give to their friends. I always have them with me and give them to cashiers, waitresses, tellers, and anyone else who serves me.

Tracts are also good ice breakers when you want to swing a conversation to the spiritual. Often I will strike up a conversation with someone, talk briefly, then hand them a tract, and say, “Did you get one of these?” I will let them look it over a second and then say, “That is actually a Gospel tract. If you flip it over, it tells you how to get right with God…Do you ever give that any thought?” Now the Gospel is the subject of the conversation! It works every time.

Tracts are also essential tools for the shy Christian. If you can’t bring yourself to talk to a stranger about the Gospel, hand them a tract. If you can’t get up the nerve to give a stranger a tract, leave them in place where people can find them, bathrooms, ATMs, benches in the mall, under windshield wipers, inside books at bookstores, in pockets of new clothes, ect.

I strongly believe that every Christian’s duty is to share the Gospel, and we all need to do something. Distributing tracts is the least a Christian can do. People are lost in their sins and need to hear the Gospel. Tracts are a valid and effect way to get the Gospel to the lost. Charles Spurgeon said, “But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without your tracts.”

Click here to see my favorite tracts.

Quote of the Week

Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms. Confusion here is fatal. -J. I. Packer

The Christian's #1 Priority

What should be the top priority of each and every Christian? In what part of the Christian life should we be put most of our energy? A way to answer this would be to investigate what is most important to God. I submit to you that, when you scan the scriptures, the most important thing to God is His own glory, so revealing God’s glory should be the foremost Christian activity in our lives. How do we reveal God’s glory? What does this look like? Luckily, this is not a hard question to answer. The glory of God is best expressed through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It reveals His kindness, love, holiness, justice, wrath, and sovereignty. This is why the whole theme of the Bible is God’s redemption of man. The whole reason God took on human flesh was the redemption of man. Nothing brings more glory to God than the Gospel.

So, back to our original question: What should be the top priority of each and every Christian? The answer is: sharing the Gospel. We should be about sharing the Gospel more than anything else. Sharing the Gospel should take precedence over all other activities in our lives. The Gospel should be on the tip of our tongues at all times. We should never feed a hungry person without sharing the Gospel. We should never give a cup of cold water to someone without sharing the Gospel. If we fail to share the Gospel while performing acts of kindness, we just made them the most heinous acts of negligence and betrayal. Don’t be fooled by that old saying, “Preach the Gospel and use words when necessary.” This is not biblical! Romans 10:14 says, “How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?” People need to hear the Gospel!

Taking the Gospel to the lost should be the obsession of every church, Sunday school class, youth group, women’s ministry, men’s ministry, single’s ministry, and senior’s ministry. If it is not, those ministries are utter and total failures. Ministry was never meant to be social clubs, and all too often this is exactly what many have become. Christians often seek to participate in building campaigns, men’s breakfasts, canoe trips, youth camps, Vacation Bible School, Sunday school, and other gatherings of believers more an aggressively pursuing the lost. This is wrong! We need to be as passionate about sharig the Gospel as God is about saving the lost.