Words carry power, they ignite feelings and responses out of us… They bring us back to our past and remind us of our present. Words carry weight.
EVANGELISM What emotions does that evoke? Who do you think of? What do you think of? Does it include you? I gotta be honest that word frightens me… Something in me wants to crawl into a corner. It brings up pictures of men screaming on a mega phone in a crowded airport saying “repent the kingdom of god is at hand!” It’s the men and women invading peoples lives with an agenda… I just don’t like it.
L O V E. God L O V E people
What does that evoke? A smile? A call to action… How about if I saidwe are going to put loving people in action through random acts of kindness… Now it gets exciting huh? Yet evangelism is loving people… So why am I scared? Because words are powerful…
Tomorrow I have an opportunity to love people in action, I say that because it gets me excited…earlier I said tomorrow Im evangelizing to my neighborhood, and I got terrified…i Started coming up with all these internal excuses how I’m uneffective and that’s not my “gift” lame huh… Haha But now I’m just loving on Gods people, meeting a simple need in order to heal a greater one:) with that paradigm shift I’m realizing That evangelism isn’t that scary… Ptl God is good all the time… And so patient with my fear of words :)