Do you believe?
In my opinion, I seem to have some difficulty when it comes to thinking about how I would potentially share my faith with someone else. I kind of get stuck in just thinking about it; the step before actually opening my mouth to speak and hoping that the other person will hear it.
Anyone with me?
Sometimes I get caught up in the details, in the finite, trivial things that don't hold the weight of importance that I place on them. Yes, of course, it's important to love our neighbors, stand up for what is right, be patient, kind, honest and compassionate. It's also important to be humble, forgiving, merciful, pure in heart and hate evil.
But those are the details to an even larger truth. As a believer in Christ, my goal is to lead people to the Father by sharing about the work Christ has done on the cross. The work Jesus did on the cross, the shedding of His blood as a perfect sinless sacrifice in order to allow us access to the Father through Him, is so complete that there is absolutely nothing we can add to it, nor is there anything that we can do to take from it either. (It's just one of those things that'll never change, which is a really good thing!)
Colossians 1:19-20 (NKJV)For it pleased the Father that in Him [Jesus] all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.
So ultimately, everything I have can always be brought back to, and through the means of, the cross of Christ. Jesus paid the price; all the fullness, reconciled, made peace.... and now I get to be in this beautiful relationship with God Himself. And you can have this, too!
All the other details come later. And yes, the details are important.
When I do have the opportunity to share my faith, it does usually go well because I pretty much stop thinking about what I'm going to say and begin to say what I believe is inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Kinda like this post.
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An amazingly good study on this topic is called
"Experience the Passion of the Christ" by John MacArthur.
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