by Tim | Mar 18, 2010 | God, Our Culture, The Church World, The Gospel |
One reason we refrain from sharing our faith is that we really don’t feel we have much of a faith to share. And we might be right about that. Few know where to turn in Scripture to share salvation outside of John 3:16. And when we evaluate our relationship with Christ, we don’t feel like we have much to say. What can we discuss about Jesus and who He means to us? What personal witness of Jesus’ message do I have? Even if someone was eager to learn about becoming a Christian and wasn’t argumentative…do I even know what the Gospel is? As a result, we leave the responsibility for spreading the faith to the marketing efforts of our church to the unchurched so that they can hopefully hear something about God Sunday morning from an educated preacher or teacher. Sure, there’s nothing wrong with distributing promotional materials about our church. Or people hearing about God from the preacher. But we have almost made this the primary way to share our faith–hoping that unchurched people will come. That is why Sunday morning worship at church has become so targeted at seekers today–everything is catered to the unchurched. Is this God’s intent for our time of corporate worship of Him? What many are starting to realize is that this model continues to perpetuate weak Christianity in the lives of the average church-goer. They do not know how to do anything else but come to church, hear a message, and leave. They think this is what Christianity is largely all about! To be fair, some churches who follow this model also...
