I wonder, how do you reach a religious guy like Glenn Beck with the truth about who Jesus is? I mean here’s a guy that was an alcoholic and had a drug addiction on top of that, who has found religion and cleaned up his life. He’ not the same guy he used to be (and he’s not ashamed to talk about it). Most people, liberal and conservative, would probably say that now he’s a ‘good person’ (a little crazy maybe too).
I will probably never have the opportunity to meet Mr. Beck but there are people just like him who are still just as lost. They too are ‘good people’ and may attribute the change in their lives to a religious experience. Yet if a person has not acknowledged Jesus Christ as savior and Lord then they are still lost and on their way to hell regardless of how good they might be. What can we do to help people like that?
- [19] Even though I am free of the demands and expectations of everyone, I have voluntarily become a servant to any and all in order to reach a wide range of people: [20] religious, nonreligious, [21] meticulous moralists, loose-living immoralists, [22] the defeated, the demoralized—whoever. I didn't take on their way of life. I kept my bearings in Christ—but I entered their world and tried to experience things from their point of view. I've become just about every sort of servant there is in my attempts to lead those I meet into a God-saved life.
1 Corinthians 9:19-22 (MsgB)
According to Paul the most effective way to bring people to Jesus is to enter their world as a servant. In other words Paul would encourage us to build relational bridges into people’s lives, live an authentic Christian life, and be there when they have a need.
Can I be honest with you? I need to do better at this as most of my relationships are confined to family and the church while my neighbors are strangers. How about you are you limited to only having friends within a ‘holy huddle’ of church folks? What can we do to be more like Paul and become “all things to all men” in order to save some? What do you think?
2 comments:
That's the hardest thing I find, and I believe every believer who is sincere about sharing the gospel, is building relationships with unbelievers when all of your relationships revolve around other believers.
I think it is something we need to be intentional about. We need to go out of our way to connect on these kinds of relationships.
I agree wholeheartedly with what you say.."to be in the world but not of the world"..believe me, Pastor Greg...I am doing my best to be in with all sorts of folks telling the Gospel of Jesus and encourageing attention to the Word of God in their lives.Not a day goes by, that I do not have an occasion to witness to someone that has not given the Lord a second thought in "years" or maybe "ever"...and for many....it may be the first time they have even THOUGHT of anything "SPIRITUAL" at all! It is actually more rewarding to your heart and soul to build relationships and see them blossom with folks like these that were so, very lost, than the ones that are already close to the Lord. I feel we recharge are batteries being around our Church base and our church family members, but, our real mission here is to spred the Word, and we can't do it, just talking back and forth...blessings.
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