To share the gospel we must share our life, our very selves. If we don’t grasp that Christ has freed us to be authentic, we will see evangelism as a project instead of a lifestyle. And we will tend to see non-Christians more as objects of our evangelistic efforts than as authentic persons.
–Rebecca Pippert
A friend recently commented on one of my posts: We are not in the ministry; the ministry is in us.
Exactly!
We have been freed to be authentic – and being an authentic follower of Christ means we will naturally want to share the greatest news we ever discovered with others. It is not a project, it is a lifestyle of changing our conversations to tell people of the goodness of God. And people aren’t objects or projects, either. Every new person we meet should be looked at as a potential next best friend who we want to share our life with.
Who is in your “sphere of influence” that you need to reach out to more intentionally to share your life with?