YOUR AIM:WINNING SOULS OR WINNING THE ARGUMENT? Beloved, on the - TopicsExpress



          

YOUR AIM:WINNING SOULS OR WINNING THE ARGUMENT? Beloved, on the surface, this interrogative may appear to be a no-brainer, so to speak, but believe me, it is one that, without a doubt, needs to be asked. Now, many who will be quick to answer soul-winning, and will be quite sincere, at that, are unfortunately the very ones, or at least some of the ones, whose approach to, shall I say, the exchange of biblical ideas is far more suited to winning the argument than it is to winning souls for Christ. In fact, their approach, which for all practical intents and purposes, although they may not know it, is actually the win the argument approach and because it is and because of its rather me first character, winning souls is relegated to becoming, in their ministry, a near impossible task. Beloved, when your approach is win the argument you will not be conscious of nor will you care how you speak to those with whom you are dialoguing and disagreeing. Whether you are caustic, condemnatory or condescending, it will not matter to you, for you are interesting only in showing others that they are wrong and that you, and sometimes you alone, are right. In fact, when this is your aim, winning the argument, you will deliberately spice your conversation with caustic, condemnatory and condescending characterizations. It boosts your sense of supposed intellectual superiority and garners for you a sought after reputation among your peers of what you think is holy boldness but which is nothing more than self-serving aggrandizing. The tragedy though, is that while it does all of this for you , this win the argument approach and attitude does absolutely nothing for Christ and his cause. If, however, winning souls is your aim, as it truly ought to be and as I pray it becomes and remain, you will not only understand the importance of seasoning your speech with salt and basting your conversational attitude in the love of Christ. but you will do everything in your power to make sure that you do so. You will avoid being caustic, you will avoid being condemnatory, you will avoid being condescending and you will resit coming off as one who thinks of himself more highly than he ought to. Now all of these things you will avoid because you know that they can be a tremendous turn-off with folk, causing them to turn their backs and their ears away from the gospel message of Jesus Christ. So then, please ask yourself this question. In your approach to sharing and even defending your faith, and by that I mean your attiude presented, the spirit in which you dialogue, and the tone of you language and even your language itself; should someone later stumble across a tape of your entire dialogue with that person, would they be turned off and away from wanting to know Christ because YOU got in the way and made it more about YOU; about you winning the argument and less about you winning souls or will they desire to know more of the Christ whose you are and whom you represent because you were more interested in winning souls than you were in winning the argument? And because you were, your dialogue was with and in the love of Christ and you chose to simply let the truth speak for itself??? In love, beloved and with a loving attitude!!! Be blessed!
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 01:37:55 +0000

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