yesterday i was walking down the hall to my room when i heard this guy say, if you really believed that heaven and hell are real and eternal, why wouldn't you spend every waking moment trying to convert people?
isn't that so true? for me, the biggest reason i downplay my faith is because i don't want people to think i'm weird or some kind of religious fanatic. so irrational and so irrelevant but it's hard to let go of that idea. evangelizing and explaining my faith with words are two things i am horrible at. when people ask questions about christianity and why god does this or why this happens, i never know what to say. the only question i know the answer to is why god lets us have freewill. obviously this isn't very effective, but today jenny lent me some books so hopefully i can learn a lot about why my faith makes sense and how to be more vocal.
i think that's one thing that christians are so comfortable with. we're so eager to go to these revivals and retreats and really get to know people within our christian culture, but when do we ever spend our time stepping out in our faith.
ReplyDeletei feel the same way too sometimes. i'm not the most knowledgable in the bible and definitely not the most eloquent, but i've realized that as long as we step out with trust and leave everything up to God, God will pave a path and let the Holy Spirit speak through us.
let's go reaching out together next year :) i think it'll do us both some good yeah?