Our readings in this series are from the book, Understanding the Times Here is a brief excerpt from page 12:
“Being evangelistic is not like driving a ‘Gospel dump truck’ around the town, with the back bin filled with your testimony, in several versions, and every Scripture, illustration, and answer to every objection to the Gospel you’ve ever learned. Thus loaded for bear, you cruise around looking for someone to unload on, and then, when the opportunity arises, you back up your Gospel dump truck and deliver all the contents of the bin in landslide fashion, hoping for the best.
“That’s not evangelism – not effective evangelism, anyway. For Paul, the work of evangelism was more like tending a garden. Sometimes you prepare the soil, other times you sow some seed – little by little. Then you water, fertilize, keep the weeds out, and, above all, wait on the Lord to produce the fruit.”
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T. M. Moore
