Subject: Worshiptainment |
Bible Note: New Creature Good points. When a Pastor shares the "Good News" many times people think, 'what do you expect it’s his job to say that' or 'He has to say that he is a pastor.’ That is why in fund raising drives pastors many times will get lay people to share how God blessed them when they gave. If the Pastor said the same thing people always wonder about his motive. But when a lay person shares the "Good News" and since people can't find an ulterior motive people are prone to take it to heart. Also in many cases before you can really share Jesus a relationship has to be formed. It is hard for Pastors to form relationships with people they meet only occasionally. Lay people are working and playing and have formed these relationships with people that need to hear the “Good New”. Therefore they are already positioned in relationship to do something that a pastor might never be able to do. Somehow Satan has effectively convinced the church body that it’s the pastor’s job to get people saved, that you have to know theology and the Bible inside and out before you can share Jesus. That to share Jesus you have to be bold and get into people’s face, That if people aren’t getting mad at you, your not doing a good job. That no one cares what Jesus means to you, the only thing that matters is what is written in the Bible. If you don’t use a lot of religious words your really not sharing Jesus. Because of one of these reasons and others I haven’t listed people are not sharing Jesus. They are working playing, and living near people that are dying and going to hell and they have never even made an effort to share Jesus with them. I actually know a family that got mad enough at a pastor to leave the church because the pastor didn’t get their brother in law saved the day they had him in church. Yet they never sat down and talked with the brother in law themselves. EdB |