I have been very negligent in sharing my faith with my words. I can easily get awkward when I know that something needs to be said, changing the course of a conversation. I think I’m getting better, but I’ve a long way to go. Tim Keller has taught that the best evangelism takes place when we listen well in a conversation, interacting with patience and love. The great commission has become the great Ommission when we keep silent.
“Our problem in evangelism is not that we don’t have enough information—it is that we don’t know how to be ourselves. We forget we are called to be witnesses to what we have seen and know, not to what we don’t know. The key on our part is authenticity and obedience, not a doctorate in theology. We haven’t grasped that it really is OK for us to be who we are when we are with seekers, even if we don’t have all the answers to their questions or if our knowledge of Scripture is limited.” - Rebecca Manley Pippert, Out of the Saltshaker & into the World: Evangelism as a Way of Life
“Discipleship—living as a follower of Jesus—is a life-transforming relationship in which we are continually learning and growing, moving from how the world trained us to think and live into how Jesus teaches us to think and live. Jesus invites us into this relationship—“follow me” (Mark 1:17; 2:14). His invitation calls us to choose to walk with him as a disciple, learning from him the ways of God.” - Excerpt, Following Jesus: Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark by Steve Langford
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