"When the method you know, and the method you're comfortable with is costing you the harvest, you change or you lose the harvest. How can that lesson be lost on those of us who have joined Jesus in what He came to earth to do - seeking and saving the lost? Jesus called the work of bringing people to Him harvest. And honestly, there's a harvest many Christians and many ministries are losing because we hate to change.
Paul followed a Savior who constantly changed the package and the presentation to break through to changing audiences. But they never changed the product! They never compromised the message! Like that Vermont farmer, we're harvesting the same product, but we'll change the way we get at it as much as the harvest requires.
So are you willing to change so we can bring in the harvest of lost lives? Will you learn to tell them about Jesus in their words, not our Christianese? Are you willing to use the kind of program, the kind of music, the kind of package that speaks the language of the person you're trying to reach? That's Missions 101! Are you willing to reach them in locations where they're comfortable? Are you willing to introduce the Gospel by starting with the needs they care about? We're talking change here; what we hate to do the most. But the cost of not changing is much higher than the cost of changing - souls lost forever because we wouldn't change."
Click on the link below for the full article:
http://www.hutchcraft.com/awwy/view.php?id=5317
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
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