It is fascinating to see how the Lord Jesus has used as many informal situations as teaching opportunities. Reading the Gospel of Luke offers an in-depth vision of how Jesus used this teaching style during a journey from Galileo to Jerusalem. Lucas contains all sorts of stories, questions and metaphors. about how Jesus interacted in normal life situations. It is a book full of several parables. Essentially, most of them refer to everyday things unrelated to the scriptures (received at that time), the church, or indeed anything remote religious. Jesus used them to wisely connect spiritual truths with people in his own cultural context.
I think one of the reasons many Christians find it difficult to effectively communicate the truth of the gospel to people from Monday to Saturday is that they speak to the unbelievers as if it were a Sunday. Can we apologize for using “the Church”?language on a Sunday, but not for the rest of the week.
- I believe that Luke’s parables remind us that many of our relationships with the unbelievers are not built from the pulpit or in formal teaching sessions; are built.
- In general.
- ?On the way? (therefore.
- Say).
- At Niddrie.
- Could this mean in the car on the way to the pharmacist for your?Order? (Methadone or Valium.
- Etc.
- ).
- Take someone to the city.
- Because you saw them at the bus stop.
- Or go to the hairdresser.
- Employment center.
- Doctor or local store.
- Most of the best conversations I’ve had were casual and sudden encounters on the street.
- And I just decided to change my schedule.
- Flexible spontaneity.
- That’s what it’s called in Niddrie.
- This is where some of the most task-oriented church members fall.
- They don’t want to cancel or delay the meeting they attend for any reason.
- Someone can stop them on the street.
- But they miss the opportunity because they’re on their way somewhere.
- The problem is.
- We’re all on our way somewhere!The key to a more purposely life is to develop an evangelistic heart “on the way.
- “.
Many people whose lives are task-oriented and dictated by their schedules do not like chaos and therefore desperately try to impose order on them. Many believers here think I have a secret gift for making people want to go out with me in the subdivision. I didn’t. I am just looking for people, I am constantly and intentionally alert and sensitive to all the opportunities that arise, I have a real interest in people, I go out with them, let’s talk about Jesus or not, we must be people whose cry of prayer is:
Enter my day, Lord, and help me enter into someone else’s day
Much of what I have read about community and missionary life refers to the adaptation of people to the structures of our day and our lives. It works well in the “ordained world”, but in the “chaotic city”. It doesn’t work. In the chaotic city, missionary life is informal, improvised, with intuitive decision-making that has to deal with the immediacy of the person in front of you. They need you NOW, not a week on Thursdays when you have some free time.
God commands us to give him our life and his service. God’s will for the disciples was to send them as sheep among the wolves. So why do so many discourses on mission and evangelization seem like a health and safety pamphlet?assessments long before we enter the service of evangelization!I listen to many conversations like the following lines:
God does not want us to do something stupid or very expensive; after all, he wants us to use our common sense. We must be wise in what we do. We don’t want to be reduced to ashes, what good would we be then?
Don’t worry, I think many Christians are so wet that they wouldn’t light up if they were soaked in paraffin and dumped into an active volcano. The Bible I read tells me that God does not want us to be reduced to ashes. He wants us to do more than that! God wants us to give our lives! Imagine how the original recipients of the letter to the Hebrews felt when they read chapter 12, verse 4. They had given up much in faith: friends, jobs and loved ones and yet they are remembered 😕 Now, in your fight against sin, have you not yet resisted the blood? Do we realize how much it costs to call someone to come to Christ in a housing estate? The pressures are enormous. How can we call people a life of self-denial and still promise that we will meet with them for an hour, once a week, if we are not too busy? What are we really willing to sacrifice for the gospel? Where is the line we don’t want to cross in terms of service? Where is ours? Yes, but? get into that kind of thinking? We must not sell people a product that we do not buy and use ourselves.
Evangelizing along the way means learning to listen well, keeping our spiritual eyes open to instant opportunities, being spontaneously flexible, walking with people among the people of the world, and often being willing to walk another 10 kilometers for the sake of the Gospel of the Bible. Lord Jesus Christ, we ask Niddrie very much, but nothing That God demands of those of us who have promised to leave everything to follow the Lord.
By: Mez McConnell. © 20 diagrams. Website: 20schemes. com. Translated with permission. Source: Dying to Disciple: How far are we willing to go in search of people ?.
Original: How far are we willing to go to evangelize people?© Faithful Department. Website: MinistryFiel. com. br. All rights reserved. Translation: Camila Rebeca Teixeira. Review: André Alosio Oliveira da Silva.