Door to Door

I've never liked door to door evangelism. To me it always seemed that it was more like selling a vacuum cleaner than sharing the love of Jesus. And I don't think I'm completely wrong, but now I think I'm mostly wrong.

I took an incredible class this semester about reaching the Unchurched in America and the thing we focused on the most was being missional. This just means that everything we do revolves around bringing glory to God by sharing Jesus with those around me. For instance, my workplace isn't a place to make money while I learn to do ministry, it is my ministry.

So the last day of this class I found out that we were going to be helping out a new church plant in North Raleigh. I thought that maybe we would work at the school where they're meeting. Nope. We went door to door to tell people about the church and to share the gospel with them if we got a chance.

I've been thinking about this hour spent going door to door for the last two weeks. My thinking came to a tipping point yesterday while I was watching a show featuring Gordon Ramsey. He's a famous chef that yells and cusses at bad restaurant owners but he fixes problems. I love it.

This place he was fixing was a bar in England that had no real direction and a terrible reputation. Chef Ramsey showed up and fixed everything. Still, no one came. So he sent out the staff to go door to door to bring people in.

Boom. Sometimes we've got to go door to door. Jesus' message gets hijacked from time to time and people hear the wrong message. They hear that Jesus wants them to do more so He'll love them. They hear that if they love Him just right and prayer the right prayers they'll prosper. They hear that if they walk an isle and say a prayer they'll go to heaven and sing with fat angels playing harp. How will they know if they have not heard that Jesus actually sets us free from all of that work and hoping in nothing?

I still think being missional is the best way to evangelize but I realize more and more that I don't know everything. I've got a lot to learn.

But I'm still right about church league softball. It's got to go.