2 Timothy 1:7
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.
Throughout the week we’ve been exploring the Zacchaeus Principle and various other insights toward REACHING or Evangelism with regards to the spiritually curious. But I am concerned that some readers are still either not convinced or simply still AFRAID!
I want to finish the week with a post that helps you recognize that I’m with you and understand. It can be extremely frightening or difficult to:
1. Expose yourself as a TRUE Christ follower.
Often times the World around us and even ourselves believe we are “Christian” because we are American. Yet I do trust you realize that this not the case. It’s possible you have to help people recognize who you really are in Christ, so that others KNOW IT and experience the new you! You might have to testify to the FBCG Women’s Ministry theme verse for this Fall.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
Throughout the week we’ve been exploring the Zacchaeus Principle and various other insights toward REACHING or Evangelism with regards to the spiritually curious. But I am concerned that some readers are still either not convinced or simply still AFRAID!
I want to finish the week with a post that helps you recognize that I’m with you and understand. It can be extremely frightening or difficult to:
1. Expose yourself as a TRUE Christ follower.
Often times the World around us and even ourselves believe we are “Christian” because we are American. Yet I do trust you realize that this not the case. It’s possible you have to help people recognize who you really are in Christ, so that others KNOW IT and experience the new you! You might have to testify to the FBCG Women’s Ministry theme verse for this Fall.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
II Corinthians 5:17
2. INVITE.
Asking another person to join you “in” ministry can be frightening at many different levels. In student ministry perhaps the hardest place to invite is to “church” on a Sunday morning, but that is why we have “easy invite” opportunities for students to introduce their peers to their ministry. For adults it’s probably not all that different regarding an invitation to worship.
But like Children’s Ministry or Student Ministry there are often times it may be an adult “ministry on-ramp” like a small group, TEAM (for men on Friday’s), a Women’s gig on a Thursday morning, Serving at a Project Serve or even a short term mission trip. And it always feels even easier when you make these “invites” with others. Work together with another peer or another whole family to start an “asking streak” that hopefully won’t break the 17 Asks Story I referred to in Worship last weekend.
Bruce McEvoy
2. INVITE.
Asking another person to join you “in” ministry can be frightening at many different levels. In student ministry perhaps the hardest place to invite is to “church” on a Sunday morning, but that is why we have “easy invite” opportunities for students to introduce their peers to their ministry. For adults it’s probably not all that different regarding an invitation to worship.
But like Children’s Ministry or Student Ministry there are often times it may be an adult “ministry on-ramp” like a small group, TEAM (for men on Friday’s), a Women’s gig on a Thursday morning, Serving at a Project Serve or even a short term mission trip. And it always feels even easier when you make these “invites” with others. Work together with another peer or another whole family to start an “asking streak” that hopefully won’t break the 17 Asks Story I referred to in Worship last weekend.
Bruce McEvoy
Pastor of Family and Serving
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