1/09/13 Continued

Well, this new discovery makes me realize that any future spiritual advice, counseling, or sharing will have this as the answer.  I can’t fix their problems, situations, marriages, relationships, etc., but I know someone who can and now I can share my best friend with them, Jesus. This same idea is a unique and beautiful transition into evangelism efforts as well.

As mentioned earlier, I have a heart for evangelism and telling people about their need for Jesus and how they can escape Hell and enter Heaven because of His death on the cross and His subsequent resurrection.  The motivation for sharing Christ for me was that I didn’t want anyone to go to Hell, and I was planting seeds.  However, I think that following programs or formats for presenting the Gospel message are useful and help one stay organized in that process, they are not as powerful or impacting as they could be. Let me explain it this way.  When you are talking about God and you are experiencing Him in a day by day growing relationship it will be impossible to keep quiet and your eyes and face and even your body language will speak to another about how God is real and working in your life. This exuberance that is authentic and impossible to contain now allows you to really help someone because now, even though you don’t have the answers to the problems or can say how a situation will turn out, I know someone who does and I would love to introduce Him to you.  Wow.  If you know God is working in your life every day, then you are sharing someone who is impacting your life in such a way that it becomes evident to everyone around you, then the person you are sharing with can see and feel that you have something good in your life that they don’t and they need to find out what it is.  This whole process is still all God’s doing, but now He is changing you in such a way that He uses you to draw others to Him. So yes, the seriousness of sin and its’ penalty is still present, but the JOY of knowing someone who is changing your life and now using you to draw someone to Himself, is a new and exciting way of sharing that I did not have before.