Christmas Revisited...

After having written a few posts, I have received several comments and e-mails about my thoughts. These comments from various people (along with the messages I have heard at church) have inspired me with a challenge for everyone reading this post. Actually the comment from Andrea inspired me the most I think, about actually living out what we believe. I have sat through countless sermons (each of them very good and very inspiration) where the preacher has used all sorts of words that, while they mean a lot to Christians, they mean almost nothing to the 'un-churched', the 'un-saved', 'sinners'. The problem in many Christian circles is that we use words that people (sometimes even us) don't really know or understand the meaning of. So my challenge is this:

This Christmas I challenge each one of you to 'evangelize', 'share the gospel', 'pray for', 'lead to the Lord', whatever you want to call it...I challenge you to share your faith with one person over the Christmas season, but there's a catch. Do it without using any of the 'Christian Lingo'; without using 'born again' or 'saved' or 'salvation'.

So that is your mission and that is my mission. This will be my last post from Lusaka and when I return from South Africa I hope we can all share how it went.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a Gut Nacht!!