When witnessing
There’s a certain mindset I’ve developed during witnessing. Many people pray for true desperation for the campus and such but when you get down to it and actually meet these people, sometimes you’re just downright intimidated because of the message you carry. You know it, you recognize that this message holds some kind of power. You realize that there will be two reactions to this message: some will listen, others will blow you off or react angrily. The second reaction scares us sometimes to the point that we lose motivation to witness. We don’t see immediate fruit many times so we wonder why we should put ourselves at risk.
And then you talk to the person.
You realize that this person is a human being and you realize they are in the same position as you once were.
The mindset I’ve developed is this: I don’t care who you are but you need Christ and somewhere deep inside you believe in God. Why are you angry at God when you don’t believe in Him? Maybe you’re angry at the idea of God and not actually at God. Why become angry at an ideal when you don’t believe in the origin? Maybe you’ve just been hurt by the church and see hypocrisy in the people. Man me too, but you’ve got to see the hypocrisy of your judgment on people in the church too. See that you’re in the same boat. Maybe you’re a philosopher and have developed a contentment that there is nothing that you can prove out of your own perception. That you can’t prove anything? That very belief is a belief in itself and you’ve grown content in your own paradoxical conundrum of believing that you can’t believe in anything. Maybe you’re a scientist (as I’ve run into many), but no one has been able to explain to me this innate sense of survival in every living thing and how it came to be. You believe in survival of the fittest right? How did that survival instinct even come to be? Heck if you’re doing science, you must have faith in your own practice that you continue doing it. Does faith in Christianity really seem that ludicrous?
Everybody needs God and I believe in this truth. If I believe that this is truth then I believe it is the answer to all people no matter what they believe in.
And then I tell them yeah I’m tired of religion too, but I relish in the relationship and He’s proven to me time and time again that He is real, that He is powerful, that He is faithful, and that He loves me. He loves you too.
Share the gospel. People need it.
P.S. Don’t try to sell Christ to them. The gospel is powerful enough.
