Books I'm Reading
Saturday, June 27, 2009?
There are 10 books that is require for all SOT students to write a book review based on how the book impact you and how you can apply into your life. I just finish all the books and this book was my last book to finish. It is a very good book for Evangelism. I highly recommend it for all of you guys especially to those that want to be an effective witness to all your friends and family members. Enjoy my review and pardon my Grammar mistake. LOL
This book is loaded with practical application that Christians can almost immediately put into practice. In addition, the book offers helpful tips on sharing your faith in succinct and compelling ways, and really hammers home the theme of 'authenticity' and evangelism as a process, rather than the gospel raid approach that presses immediately for a decision and commitment to Christ without doing much of what is needed to truly resemble authentic and caring evangelism. The Bible commanded us to not only love God but people. In this book it really encouraged me about the difference approaches to spreading the faith. Everybody had different ways of doing evangelism but that does not matter. The most important is the end result and also we need to be a contagious Christian who’re learned to work within the design God has given us. It is about being ourselves and finding the identity. One of the greatest mistakes a believer can make is to renounce or repress his God-given uniqueness in a vain attempt to appear more spiritual. This really teaches and impacts me a lot. I really need to be a real Christian and not go around faking to be holy and spiritual so that I may be relevant to the society and keeping my spiritual discipline.
Sometime because of various societies, it is very difficult to talk about sensitive issues like religion. To win people to Jesus is not as easy as it seem to be. Yes, Jesus gave us the Great Commission but how are we going to raise the topics of faith when our personality is having some problem with people. It is going to be very hard to relate to people. I learn in this book that once we understand that the most important business in the world is the people business, we need to live, pray, love, work, give and serve differently because we’ll preoccupied with people and their needs. Is no longer about me but others. It is about investing into people life.
This book is filled with practical examples and information on how we do evangelism in a more effective way. The one thing that I am going to start doing is that I am going to be a friend to all my friends as real and close as possible. To influence people over to you before to God, I need to be really in their circle of friends. I need to start to develop trust and communion with them by meeting their needs and be with them as much as I could. I agree with this statement that the fact is all of us experience discomfort when someone outside our circle of friends tries to influence us about personal, significant matters. We all naturally gravitate toward people we already know and trust. If someone whom I am not close with came and tries to influence me over something, I will get very annoy. I can see this in an angle of the unbeliever in whom we are reaching out to. If I am to impact the people around me with the gospel of Jesus Christ, the most effective approach will be through friendship. I pray that God will start to expand my capacity to care about the difference individual and that we have their best interest in mind. I believe over time that will earn their trust and respect.
Grace and Peace 12:30 PM