I was sitting in a local business’s waiting room recently.  The business is owned by a Christian, but not just for Christians.  As I was waiting, a gentleman entered and started handing out Christian tracks.  He politely asked if individuals would like to talk about God or Heaven.  A young man so ‘no thanks’, but politely took the track.  Then he went to a woman who seemed annoyed and rejected the track.  Her husband said ‘no’ as well.  The witness said the track used the King James Bible.  Well that led to a little ‘debate’ (somewhat heated) because they didn’t think the KJV was the authoritative Word of God, but written with errors & their Bible (I think American Standard) was THE Word of God.  To make the story shorter, the man left and ‘agreed to disagree’; but he left and said that he believed the 1st church (the ones the disciples began) was a Baptist church.

I share this story with you because 2 things about Evangelism stood out to me that day.

1) Don’t argue with your teammates.  He was trying to share the Good News.  Even though they disagreed on the ‘best’ translation of the Bible, everyone in the waiting room heard the argument and probably didn’t realize they were on the same team.  We are all sharing a testimony about God, our church, our beliefs. What are you portraying?

2) As this man came in and started witnessing, my first thought was ‘how productive is this type of evangelism?’  I was like, “why are you wasting your time”.  Then, God smacked me upside the head. He reminded me that AT LEAST THIS GUY WAS TRYING.  What was I doing?  I was busy working on some things for camp – a good thing, but not sharing about God’s Love.

Pastor Brent