Comments on: How to win points but NOT influence people

By: How to become a (bond)slave for others

How to become a (bond)slave for others — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:20:06 +0000

[...] they don’t. They see salvation as a points game, probably because you and I have given it that [...]

By: bondChristian

bondChristian — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:39:03 +0000

Fantastic point, Steve. I know we can all tend to err to one side or another. I think of love as truth plus grace. If you’re all truth, no one cares because it doesn’t matter to them. If you’re all grace, again no one cares because it’s not based in anything real, like Santa for example.

Thanks for sharing the other side and balancing this out.

-Marshall Jones Jr.

By: bondChristian

bondChristian — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:34:22 +0000

Thanks, Jason. Love is so big, isn’t it?

-Marshal Jones Jr.

By: bondChristian

bondChristian — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:33:46 +0000

hahaha I almost went higher on the percentage myself… but I knew I was just making it up, and perhaps my friends and I aren’t a good representation of how fantastic Christianity really is.

But yeah, I think evangelism is part of that second one. If we love others, right, we’ll share the best news in the world with them. But it has to come from a desire to care for them, not convince them to be like us.

-Marshall Jones Jr.

By: Steve-Personal Success Factors

Steve-Personal Success Factors — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:48:10 +0000

Hey, thanks for the great word. However, I have tended to err on the side of love rather than truth. That’s because I’m recovering from people-pleasing (winning points–I want people to like me and I don’t want to offend). But the gospel message at its core will offend some people no matter how loving I am. So, for me, who finds it easier to love than tell truth, telling truth is the most loving thing I can do.

By: jasonS

jasonS — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:48:00 +0000

Such a great reminder that it’s not about competition, what we can do, or anything else- it’s about Jesus and showing His love.

Thanks, Marshall.

By: Bernard Shuford

Bernard Shuford — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:35:13 +0000

Dude. This. Rocks.

I couldn’t agree more. Except I’d say that maybe 90 or 95% of evangelism is for points. Of course, that’s arbitrary and unfair of me to judge the evangelists, but that’s what I think.

And I believe that evangelism without love is nearly useless evangelism. The first commandment is to love God. The second is to love your neighbor as yourself. Evangelism, at best, is number 11.