When you hang out with your friends, do you talk about God? I'm saying serious conversations about God and your beliefs. If you haven't, why not? I know it's not a comfortable subject because, everyone has different views on God and religion.
Why not get out of your comfort zone? Invite your friends to church. Go further and invite your coworker to church. I know you've thought about it, but you don't know how.
I'm guilty of not talking to my friends about God. (Not my church friends) I'm talking about my school friends, work friends, acquaintances, etc. I never talk to them about going to church. They ask questions about my religion and I answer, but, for some reason, I'm afraid that if I ask them to come to church with me, it will drive them away.
I'm trying to get out of my comfort zone. I realize now that people really are hungry for God. The reason it didn't register earlier was because, I'm already fulfilled. I have God in my life and it took me some time to apprehend that other people don't have him in theirs. That's why some people feel like there's something missing, that they feel like their lives have come short of a certain commodity. I haven't had a chance to actually hunger for God. He's always been in my life, so I didn't realize that other people have that emptiness.
Having God in my life brings a sense of happiness. I wish this would have dawned on me earlier in life. Sure, I heard it all the time that you should talk about God to people who don't know about him and invite people to church who don't have a church to go to. But, actually going out and doing those things is different than saying you will and knowing you should.
We need to learn to share his word and not just keep it to ourselves. That's selfish. If we don't tell people what we know to be true, we're not doing our job.
God gives you chances to talk about him and invite people to church, it's what we do with those chances that makes the difference. Usually, we'll talk about what's going on in our lives and we don't even think about God. It's easy to forget about him and it's comfortable to talk about other stuff, but, you need to get out of your comfort zone and remember that God probably gave you this chance to talk about him.
Don't screw it up, you may never get that chance again. Dive into the unknown territory, what's the worst that could happen?
Jacinda do what I do, talk about God in your face book social stream! Unless your nonbeliever friends are not on facebook...
ReplyDeleteI will warn you though not as many people are hungry for God as you might think, I was just kicked out of a website I went to for "STARTING A RELIGIOUS DEBATE" They threw a list in my cyberface of things not to do unless I wanted to be booted with a 101 smiley face -_-
So I told just what I thought about there moronic, loser-tastic, heathen infused, diarrhea spawned, Incompetent, Loud Mouth Donkeys BUTT, MALODERUS LEADFOOTED NIMRODS!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT THEY ARE!!!!!!!!
There are many ways to describe this tension. We say, Christians are in the world but not of the world. Jesus prays, “I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world” (John 17:15-16).
And I told them that after they sent me there Emo-tastic rule.
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
ReplyDeleteSome religious debates aren't healthy. If it comes down to name calling you should probably stop. You can't really convince people what you believe is right if you're insulting them. I don't think Jacinda was talking about religious debates or talking through facebook, I think she was talking about just inviting them to church to see what they thought. I love your blog, Jacinda. Keep inspiring!
ReplyDeleteThis comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to delete comments on this particular post, but it seemed a little too negative of a reaction than what I was going for..
ReplyDelete