Have you ever been trying to tell someone about the gospel or just about your relationship with Christ and they seemed not interested at all?
Does it hurt your feelings or do you wonder why it wasn’t received well?
So I’ve come to realize why it’s so hard for people to accept the Gospel. It’s not because people don’t want to accept Jesus and what he has done for us. It’s not because people can’t tell that there is a God that loves us, but it’s because “Christians” give a bad representation of what a “REAL Christian” should look, talk, walk, and even dress like. We tell the world that we are renewed in Christ and we have a new way of doing things but yet we look and speak like the old person. (Romans 12:2 ESV “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”) Our lives simply just don’t give witness to who Christ is. The bible says in James 1:26-27 ESV “If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.” We curse, fuse and complain Monday, Tuesday, Half a day on Wednesday (cause most of us go to bible study on Wednesday night), Thursday, Friday, half a day on Saturday (Cause the other half of the day maybe spent at choir practice or some kind of church meeting), and Sunday after you have put on our church clothes, sung the songs, and prayed the prayers, we go back home and nothing has changed (the cycle begins all over). Funny enough we try and tell others where they are wrong in their lives but yet the bible speaks clearly to us about our own problems. Matthew 7:5 ESV You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
We go out around town, on vacations, or even on mission trips doing God knows what and we think no one sees us, but people and God do. So it’s hard to be a witness for Christ when all the streets knows you as is a club hopper, the person with the bad mouth, the person who always makes the dirty jokes, the person with the bad attitude, or your dressing like the people on TV giving our children a bad view of what Godly men and women should look like. Or even worse than that you’re known as the person that talks the talk but really doesn’t live up to what you say. So you’re saying Hallelujah, praise God, Amen one minute and the next minute you are going off on someone or throwing a fit because you can’t have things your way.
We as Christians must stand up and be who God has called us to be. Ephesians 4:1-3 “I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.” You can’t bring someone to know Christ and then disciple them to disciple someone else if we ourselves have one leg in the world and the other in the Kingdom. Its either you are a warrior for the kingdom or you are on the other side. Simple as that! We have to be an example for other people to follow and once we are you’ll see how much easier it is for people to receive the word of God. But it want be because of anything you have done yourself but because God’s light shines all over you and they will want to know what makes you different from everyone else.
Matthew 5:16 ESV “In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”
