sowing and reaping

I am a big believer in adopting evangelistic and missionary tools that are culturally appropriate, spirit led and I am so grateful to the emerging church and fresh expressions movements for pointing out that we need to Go and adapt to the people rather than make people adapt to our church structures. However I am increasingly challenged about what this actually looks like in my everyday life. We must not stay in a place of reflecting and discussing and grappling with the question of mission at the expense of losing an intentiality in our evangelistic action. We must act, we must step over a line.

How bizzarre the days we are living in...VAT down to 15%. When did that last happen? We are in an opportune season with Christmas coming, a new year not far off and so much in the media to make people think about life and its meaning. After Christmas the buses we have probably all heard about with the humanistic slogan "God probably doesn't exist so stop worrying.." on will be driving about the place. This really is a time to step up, be diligent, devote ourselves to the kingdom, pursue a deeper relationship and be intentional and active in our evangelism. For me at the moment this is potentially swallowing my pride a little and engaging in some more bog standard evangelistic methods but hopefully bringing the edge of the spirit and the mix and creativity of what the emerging church movement encourages us to do. Please pray for an event I am doing called Carols and Cappucino which is an evangelistic carol service for students in a starbucks in town on December 16th.

So sowing and reaping...we have so many strategies and compared to a few years ago we are so much ebtter at sowing into peoples lives thoughts and little tid bits about Jesus. It used to be standard to be afraid to do this. However most of us are kinda getting the hang of this [if you are still working on this side too sorry...go for it!]. However do we have faith to actually reap and see people move much closer to Jesus? Are we expecting this to happen this Christmas for someone?