Way of Life

Posted : 23 Jul, 2011 03:41 AM

Every human being is a network of relationships. For example, consider yourself. You were born into a family and thus are related to your mother and father, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, nephews, and nieces. When you marry this network is enlarged. Not only are you then related to your new husband or wife and the children and possibly grandchildren that will come from your union. Your marriage also brings you into your marriage partner�s family. You then have a whole network of in-laws. As you encounter these family members in the normal course of your life, ask God to embolden you to tell them of his love for them in Jesus Christ.



Many relationships develop from your work. You are an employer or an employee. A number of people are your fellow workers. Many of them will be people who need to hear the gospel from you.



When you select a place to live, the residence comes with a set of neighbors. Over the years you will develop some special friendships. And during the course of a day or week, there are many, many other people � doctors, service station attendants, mail persons, clerks, and other casual acquaintances � for whom you may be the means of their gaining eternal life.



Some day there will be a great banquet, but those that have rejected the invitation will not be there to enjoy the marriage supper, only those that have accepted the invitation will be there. This is the essence of personal evangelism. There are opportunities for witness all around us. Our responsibility is to develop the alertness of mind and the zeal for sharing God�s love that will enable us to take advantage of every opportunity into which the Lord leads us day in and day out. We must study to develop a witnessing mindset, ever asking God to give us the ability to see the opportunities for lifestyle evangelism which He brings into our path each day. And we must ask God for a heart that is bold enough to use these opportunities for his glory.



We must be those servants that will take the invitation to the banquet unto the lost of this world. As the world speeds toward destruction, its only hope is that some one will �stand in the gap and make up the hedge� to declare that Christ is the answer. Personal evangelism is the means by which the invitation will be proclaimed -- which should be a way of life.



�..Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.� (Luke 14.23)

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