The Fourth of July is a great time to have barbeques, parties, picnics and festivals. It’s a wonderful opportunity for friends and family to get together and chow down some hamburgers, hotdogs, and tons of chips with guacamole. It’s also a chance for churches to have a block party, invite the neighbors over for a
Last Friday I posed these questions: Can someone be too forceful during an evangelistic encounter? Is it possible to “shove” salvation down someone’s throat? Where does one draw the line between tactful and tacky?
One man said this:
According to Luke 14:22-23 (NASB) “And the slave said, ‘Master, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’ “And the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the highways and along the hedges, and compel them to come in, so that my house may be filled.”
According to Websters, this is what compel means: to drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.
If we are obedient to the command to “compel” them to come in, it sounds to me like we [should be] doing that. However I would dare not rob the influence of the Holy Spirit that does the “compelling” through us!
“You know… the Gospel is important and all that,” you’ll hear someone say occasionally with furrowed brow, “but you can’t be too pushy; you don’t want to shove it down their throats.” I have heard that a few times, have you? Now of course, if you are just letting your little light shine, shine, shine,
OOOPS! I forgot to tell you what I thought about the Father Matthew video featured last week. (See it here!) Joshua Black made this comment which sums up what I think: “What a load of garbage. It is not loving to tell people lies that comfort them in dangerous delusions like atheism. If it were
Does this entertaining 3 minute video from Father Matthew answer the atheists from “The Blasphemy Challenge”? Or is something just a little off? What are your thoughts? My thoughts on Thursday.