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Practice Your Multiplication

O.K., math whiz, see if you can crunch these integers: let’s imagine that you helped one person get to know God personally this year.  That is, you shared your faith in Jesus and the person responded by saying, “Yes, I want that too, I’ll become a Christian.” 

That person, excited about his new faith, shares it with someone else the following year, who then passes it on, and on, and on.  This scenario repeats itself for fifteen years.  That means that you had an effect on fourteen people (and their families).  That’s a fairly significant impact, when you think about eternity.  Those fourteen didn’t just have their lives changed, they had their eternal destiny changed; they found joy, hope, purpose, and love! 

Now, sharpen your pencils. What if...

Spreading the Infection

“...the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have his way, come to share in the life of Christ... He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of life He has—by what I call ‘good infection.' Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else. ” -C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

An Alien Gospel

“I was abducted by an alien gospel,” writes Dieter Zander. “…a gospel concerned only with how to deal with sin and death, with wrongdoing and its effects. We've got the past covered — past sins are forgiven. We've got the future covered — heaven when we die. But what about the present? Life, our actual daily existence, is strangely absent from [the modern] version of the good news.”

The Ephesians Road

Most people who've spent time in church are familiar with the “Romans Road” method of evangelism — simply take a person through Romans 3:23, 6:23, and 10:9-10 to introduce them to Christ.

Unfortunately, the days of simple evangelistic methods are drawing to a close. What we used to be able to “assume” people understood can no longer be assumed.