I wrote a week or so ago about my desire to reach my neighborhood for Christ, and my desire to break the chains that prevented me from telling anyone about Jesus.
The change is outstanding. Every time I give out a gospel tract of tell someone the gospel in the best way I know how, it's like spiritual fuel that gets me through the day.
I was a drug addict and just as Paul said, there is an addiction in Jesus that is given from God, to "minister to the saints". Witnessing is addictive.
And what's amazing is that I took adderall and abused cough syrup, and got lost in my video game worlds running precisely from this. I was afraid witnessing would diminish my love of video games. It has replaced it with something better.
The bible says to work out your salvation with "trembling and fear", and there is plenty of that. Sometimes I talk to a person about Jesus and pass out a tract. Sometimes I just pass out a tract. Sometimes I rest. But every time I receive a spiritual boost that is sustaining me and gives me a reason to look forward to the next time I witness.
It is difficult. I have shied away from this for all of the time I've known Jesus, but it finally feels like I'm walking with Him.
For years I read the bible daily, prayed daily, and went to church all the time. I wasn't witnessing. I wasn't telling others. This is vital!
But I've reached out to a several of my neighbors, including a man I was terrified to witness to. I've found out one of my neighbor's is saved, and he's given me a prayer request to join him in prayer for. I've never had someone be mean to me whenever I handed them a tract, and no one has ever been unkind when I share the gospel. I know it's coming, I want to be ready, but it makes me laugh at every time I thought I would die if I witnessed to this or that person. And every time I actually share the gospel, I seem to have more of a handle on it, and it becomes easier to deliver. There is less trembling.
I believe the world is changed in face to face conversation, one witness at a time. Not on facebook, not in blogs, not in long posts about this or that point of view. I get the impression that what will change the nation, if it is to change, is to get back on the streets, and for Christians to get off the phone, and go visit their neighbor.
The change is outstanding. Every time I give out a gospel tract of tell someone the gospel in the best way I know how, it's like spiritual fuel that gets me through the day.
I was a drug addict and just as Paul said, there is an addiction in Jesus that is given from God, to "minister to the saints". Witnessing is addictive.
And what's amazing is that I took adderall and abused cough syrup, and got lost in my video game worlds running precisely from this. I was afraid witnessing would diminish my love of video games. It has replaced it with something better.
The bible says to work out your salvation with "trembling and fear", and there is plenty of that. Sometimes I talk to a person about Jesus and pass out a tract. Sometimes I just pass out a tract. Sometimes I rest. But every time I receive a spiritual boost that is sustaining me and gives me a reason to look forward to the next time I witness.
It is difficult. I have shied away from this for all of the time I've known Jesus, but it finally feels like I'm walking with Him.
For years I read the bible daily, prayed daily, and went to church all the time. I wasn't witnessing. I wasn't telling others. This is vital!
But I've reached out to a several of my neighbors, including a man I was terrified to witness to. I've found out one of my neighbor's is saved, and he's given me a prayer request to join him in prayer for. I've never had someone be mean to me whenever I handed them a tract, and no one has ever been unkind when I share the gospel. I know it's coming, I want to be ready, but it makes me laugh at every time I thought I would die if I witnessed to this or that person. And every time I actually share the gospel, I seem to have more of a handle on it, and it becomes easier to deliver. There is less trembling.
I believe the world is changed in face to face conversation, one witness at a time. Not on facebook, not in blogs, not in long posts about this or that point of view. I get the impression that what will change the nation, if it is to change, is to get back on the streets, and for Christians to get off the phone, and go visit their neighbor.
