Evangelism 2.0

Dana has a good idea:

“So I took the food left over from the annual meeting to the Rescue Mission Sunday afternoon. One of my friends was staying there and we talked for about 45 minutes. He told me about the different church groups that come to the mission in the evenings to serve food and "give a message." He said the most effective ones were the ones where men from the church came and served the meal and then sat down at the tables with the residents. He said just eating with them and asking "how are you doing" or "what do you need" made greater impact than standing up and preaching to them while they eat. Interesting idea isn't it ... get some guys to together, cook something up, take it down there and eat and talk with those men maybe once a month. I wonder if anyone else might be interested in doing that?”

Definitely something we should try to do. 

We need to think and talk a lot more about evangelism at Trinity and in the Diocese. Spreading the Gospel is the Great Commission, but it’s not something a lot of us know how to do very effectively. 

As Dana’s friend suggests, one approach is to forego the hard sell in favor of showing Christian love and concern for others. Sometimes showing works better than telling. 

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Today's collect: Give us grace, O Lord, to answer readily the call of our Savior Jesus Christ and proclaim to all people the Good News of his salvation, that we and the whole world may perceive the glory of his marvelous works; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.