Sometimes we are jealous of the fruit of others.  Do you truly believe, ______, that  people have not come to faith in Jesus through the scriptures in tracts?  Your criticism and arrogance in poo-pooing (proper word, I think, means “denigrating) the work of thousands of fellow sisters and brothers in Christ is breathtaking.

So…why is it an unbiblical approach to share the gospel?  Jesus told his disciples to pack up and go out two by two.   And back in the ’70′s and ’80′s, when I was on the beach in Daytona with the dorky movie and the slo-mo football, all of American were dorks.  It was the 1970′s, after all.   Only Jim was not dorky.  And neither was his band.  Probably.

Why the heck is this such an issue?  And how do hookers or strippers compare to young believers who are trying to share the gospel?  Honestly, ______, I think your arguments are bizarre.   Fun, but bizarre. Using a tract as a way to share the gospel is akin to smoking or gambling…what the heck?

It seems like  you have great success in sharing the gospel, that you have seen much fruit and many people coming to faith in Christ, probably have a gift of evangelism.  Could you elaborate?  I’m (really) unclear about the proper biblical way to share the gospel if it is not trusting in God to lead as he wills and using scripture to proclaim the glories of the Lord.

As others have said, let’s just be.  Let others be.  Let the Holy Spirit do work.

What does this have to do with SGM???

Thanks for the chance to comment,

Love from RT, a fellow ass.

The Bible doesn’t tell us exactly how to do everything, where we get in trouble is when we insist that something has to be done a certain way in order to be “biblical”. As Canary said, whatever is said or done in the name of Jesus must be said or done in His love.
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So, in that regard…I forgive you for being a stubborn mule.
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Just don’t do it again…
 
 

If the Gospel is preached, some will be saved. I’m grateful for some methods that I find laughable, because God uses all types of “methods” to draw people to Himself. “All means”.

Of course, I was in a blatantly Christian hair metal band in the 80′s, so what do I know…

… except that we saw God save a lot of people.

1 Cor 9:20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. 21 To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. 22 To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.

I am very grateful to those who preach the gospel and personally I will use whatever works depending on my situation and the leading of the Holy Spirit. Jesus met people at their point of need not at His point of need – I personally like His example as have done accordingly.

In a very poor way, I was trying to communicate my concern about the way we as Christians represent Christ to the world that ultimately hinders the gospel of Christ.

I was attempting to say that Christ’s example of coming to serve mankind and loving even his enemies (of which we all were) are powerful in our expression to the world. When we serve those in the world (our neighbors, it gives a greater weight to our message.

I do believe that the church’s demonstration of our life with Christ has hindered the work of those who are on the front lines day in and day out.

Anyway — I appreciate your challenge to my comments – hopefully this brings some clarity of what is in my heart on not just my words.

We are treading on very thin ground here.  As a sister in Christ, I urge you to focus on heresy and abuse in the church, not on people who pour their lives out to share the gospel.

Remember that Jesus always asked questions, “Who do you say that I am?”

If this approach doesn’t work for  you, don’t use it. But let’s not shoot each other over it.

Some people have great success being taught how to get to the point, some people have a better ability to weave the gospel into conversations.

You may not be into canned presentations, you may be into them.  Either way we are commanded to hare the gospel, and I am guilty of not always doing so.  I am sad about this.

Let’s rejoice anytime the Word goes forth, because it never comes back void.

Anything done with purity and passion can be effective.