Monday we were told that the ministry we were sent to Ireland to do was Street Evangelism. This struck a kind of fear in me that I have never experienced. Here are some thoughts that went through my head. Are you serious? Don’t you need a wall knocked down or some graffiti washed off the walls? They are just going to think we are crazy, aren’t they? My mind immediately went to avoidance. They showed us the videos of Kirk Cameron evangelizing on the street to show us a technique that we could use (The Way of the Master) you might want to google it. I forced myself to think positively, watch and learn from the videos and said okay, why do I think people should be Christians? The same reason that I’m a Christian, of course, because God so LOVED the WORLD, God so LOVES ME, and God so LOVES EVERYONE so much that he gave His ONLY Son so whoever believes in Him, will not perish, but have eternal life! That love can move mountains, can move me to tears and save a persons soul. But these videos clearly told us that simply telling someone Jesus loves them isn’t the way to go.
It’s hard to just begin with that, to tell someone Jesus loves them without any reason. They’ll look at you like a lunatic. But that’s the main reason I am here, to tell all the world the Good news of Jesus. The reality is that none of us are perfect. I think we can all safely agree to that. I have lied in my life, stolen, coveted others’ possessions… that breaks at least 3 commandments. This is the reason why I needed the sacrifice of Jesus (the only perfect man) to cleanse me of my impurity and sin so that I can enter Heaven. So now when God looks at me, he doesn’t see a sinner, he sees his perfect creation. I don’t want to represent Jesus as a lunatic, but as a completely sane, normal person… and I believe that’s what I am. It brings me to tears when I think about unsaved souls. I wonder if that would cause someone to wonder if Jesus was real. Could my tears of sadness for all the unsaved cause someone to turn to Jesus as the real savior of the world. Or would they all still see me as crazy? Maybe I am crazy.
Can I ask all of you who don’t believe Jesus was sent here by God to save us? What do you think of all of this? What could someone say to you to help you understand the reality of Jesus and the LOVE of God for you? Do you even want to believe?
