Just Thinking
I wonder what would/could happen if the Christian evangelical churches here in America would spend their time and effort during the week, (or even half their time) during each week "actually evangelizing" rather than working in the office, preparing sermons, raising funds and spending time thinking of "new innovative ways to attract people to their church, "so they could get people, saved and fed and healed and delivered and every else that is supposed to be incorporated into evangelism?!?
I mean....seriously...now....for real.
Am I alone on this one?
I have been over and over and over the New Testament. It reads the same..... "Therefore go out into all the world and make disciples of all nations......" Matthew 28:19
Also....
Jesus said in Act 1:8
"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
These are just two verses that talk about our directive to "out into all the land to reach the lost".
Also, I believe we have it completely backwards.
The American Evangelical Church, for the most part anyway. (I don't want to say the entire church because there ARE some denominations and some smaller churches that DO have the right focus, but in general)
You see, so many of the larger churches have such a focus on "getting people into church" so they can then "meet their needs".
That is just "not scriptural".
To evangelism is all about "sharing the love of God for the world". That is includes meeting the needs of those you are evangelizing to. The physical, material, emotional and spiritual needs.
Being "Jesus" to the world.
It is through the love, the agape love of God and the miraculous signs and wonders BEFORE they come into the church.....before they are expected to do, and give.....through this unconditional mercy of God that souls are saved.....lives are changed for eternity.
And when THIS HAPPENS....when someone comes out of the darkness into the light.
When their old life passes away and they no longer have they friends they once knew.....the family in the world they once depended on .....THEY COME RUNNING INTO THE CHURCH on their own....no one has to beg them or call them one the phone or face book them....the church doesn't have to SELL ITSELF.
I truly believe ....if the church...(most especially those in leadership) would take time to sit at the Father's feet..... and Be quiet.......and ask for HIS HEART to be down loaded into theirs. To have enough humility to admit we are not always "right on target".
I truly believe....the church would be so full right now the doors would not be able to close......Just Thinking.
