Many times, ministry is the summation of a great deal of little things that eventually accumulate into the overwhelming love of Christ. [Click title to read more.]
Tag: evangelism
You Are God’s Object Lesson
Sometimes, our well-intentioned explanations sound like gibberish. That's why living the Gospel is so important. [Click title to read more.]
Go Out, Not In
Christianity is an itinerant faith, but we're in danger of forgetting that [Click title to read more.]
We Can’t Argue People Into Becoming Christians
Sometimes sharing Christ means leaving space for God to work. [Click title to read more.]
On Inviting People To Church
I think sometimes that "inviting someone to church" is so encouraged and so ideal precisely because we don't think it takes a lot of effort. You invite someone and boom! You're done. Except that you're not. [Click title to read more.]
Evangelizing In The Suburbs
It's a false and detrimental way of thinking that you can only be a "real" Christian and just like Jesus if you are ministering to particular people in a particular way at a particular time. [Click title to read more.]
Loving Service Should Not Be A Transaction
I think that, as believers, we're often raised up with the concept of results-oriented evangelism and the sense that our love and service is an investment for which we will eventually see a tangible return. [Click title to read more.]
Coincidentally, All Our Sins Always Happen To Be In The Distant Past
It's more than a little disingenuous to pretend that our 'worst' sins are always something that we recovered from a while back, the remnants of a time long-ago in early Christian-hood before we became the strong believers we are now. [Click title to read more.]
God Values Your Creative Ministry
All too often I suspect our faith is bound by the laws of logic - if not the logic of reason, then our own peculiar logic of how things are and how the universe should be. Or even by the logic of what our churches say "proper" ministry should look like. [Click title to read more.]
The Future of America Does Not Depend On Politics. It Depends On You.
It's easy to complain. It's easy to pretend to ourselves that one vote or one candidate will make or break something. It's a lot less easy to go out and do the work of love. For all of us who sit around complaining about the way the world is, I wonder: have we been doing all that we can do to serve? [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 