Why We Are ALL Missionaries
We once thought ourselves a religious majority, but we are now a convictional minority. We've got to shift our thinking.
We once thought ourselves a religious majority, but we are now a convictional minority. We've got to shift our thinking.
From neighborhood block parties to sponsored movie nights in our side yard my family have used some of The Art of Neighboring strategies to get to know our neighbors better. And it all has led to tons of very natural Gospel conversations, a key part of the church reaching neighborhood.
God's love, forgiveness and acceptance is a powerful apologetic that can get past any barrier.
The gospel message remains the same, but reaching today's culture requires understanding and adapting our methods to effectively share it.
And one eternally compelling reason to overcome them.
We are Christ's ambassadors, and people will judge him based on what they see in us.
If we are going to present a compelling alternative to non-Christian sexual ethics today, we need to recover a New Testament understanding of brotherly and sisterly love. Everywhere I go, I meet brothers and sisters in Christ who are trusting that Jesus’ love is better than any human love, leaving same-sex sexual relationships to follow Jesus. If someone leaves a gay relationship to enter the church, they should find more love and not less.
One way of determining evangelistic health is through a metric called conversion ratio. This ratio tells you how many people in your church it takes to win one person for Christ.