I talked today with a wonderful person engaged in evangelism in Abbotsford. She made the comment that we are only capable of having meaningful connection with a limited number of people. She meets regularly with about eight people that she is discipling and building relationship with. Some one she knows has a personal limit of five people. These are people working in part or full time ministry. I think we sometimes think that in "great evangelism" we are expected to be impacting hundreds or thousand of people and that we should be converting people in the first five minutes of talking to them or at least giving them a book or a tract...
Jesus in Acts 1 directs his apostles to faithful and empowered lives and testimony. Do we experience or see God's empowerment in our lives? If you have no responsibility for converting people, does bold witness and testimony become easier? I think the reality is that it has to start with one choice to wait on the Holy Spirit in prayer and one person whom God will place in your heart or in your life. The task is not to convert them, because we can't do that, but to love and pray that God's power be revealed in both our life and their own life. The task is to with bold humility talk about God's intervention and ongoing impact in our lives.
How many? It starts with one...
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