The Reluctant Evangelist: Moving from can't and don't to can and do

by Richard Coekin

So let me tell you an uncomfortable truth: your whole street is on fire! Because your street is filled with people who don’t know of the judgment to come or of the loving Saviour who can rescue them. But that’s why God has arranged for you to live where you live. I don’t know what that means for you—perhaps it means organising a Christmas drinks evening where you invite your church pastor to explain the true meaning of Christmas, or knocking on every door with an invitation to an Easter outreach event, or a summer barbecue where you give your testimony? The one thing I know you can’t do is… nothing. The first step to saving grace for Nineveh was that Jonah preached the judgment of God. God’s gospel requires us to find a way to do the same. Anything less is just not loving.