When it comes to proclaiming Jesus, demonstrating and declaring the gospel to the people around us, you can’t fake it and hope to sustain it. In other words, you can’t manufacture Jesus’s heart for lost people out of nothing. A wide open life of mission will always flow from our love for Jesus....
Like a boat that never sails, as followers of Jesus, we are happy with believing but never share Jesus' love with others. We live in the marina. Close enough to the shore to be safe and close enough to the sea to get a sense of the action, but always anchored in place. Jesus didn't intend us to live this way....
For many of us, sharing Jesus can be a scary thing to do, but as followers of Jesus, we have the Holy Spirit living inside us who wants to help us. He knows you, and He knows the person you are talking to. He knows what to say and when to say it. In short, the Holy Spirit works in and through us to share the gospel of Jesus....
The biggest obstacle to the gospel in our culture isn’t that people are ignorant of the message, but that they’ve heard it all before and aren’t interested. Fortunately, people can make new decisions about old information when they are given a fresh perspective, and a fresh perspective is what the practice of hospitality is all about....