A Life Worth Reading
Becoming a believer is a new experience for all of us. How do you explain what is in your heart to someone who doesn’t really understand what is happening?
A Life Worth Reading
As a Christian, I understand the importance of sharing my faith with others. This is how the church grows and it’s how people find God.
When you find the answer to life’s problems it’s just natural to want to spread the joy and help others in their journey to salvation.
Cecil Northcott was talking to a group of young Christians about this. Most people don’t have any idea how to share their faith. They need some help in how to articulate what is happening in their life.
Becoming a believer is a new experience for all of us. How do you explain what is in your heart to someone who doesn’t really understand what is happening?
Cecil and the young people discussed how to share their faith. They talked about printing literature, conducting classes, knocking on doors, standing on street corners and whatever else might work.
A young woman from Africa listened to all their ideas and then spoke up. She said, “When we want to take Christianity to one of our villages we don’t send them books. We send them a Christian family and they make the village Christian by living among them.”
Wow! That is so simple! That’s really what it’s all about. Just let them see Christ in you. So, let’s personalize this a little. Here’s a challenge for you to think about for the day:
How would that village turn out if you were the family that was sent?
Is your faith strong and visible for others to see? Christ doesn’t need fancy gimmicks or slick phrases. People just need to see how He has changed us and then understand how He can do that for them, too.
1 Peter 2:12
“Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may, because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.”
Tomorrow: why this is so important.
