Thursday, July 9, 2009

For normal people

Sharing our faith in Christ is a normal activity for disciples, not something unusual, fanatical or scary. Becoming someone we are not in order to share our faith, now that's unusual and scary! God has created us with highly individualized personalities, and we are called in Christ to be who we are as his witnesses, empowered by the Holy Spirit. In other words, our "normal" is to be increasingly sensitive to making ourselves available for God's service as living evidence of the power of God to transform our ordinary selves into reflectors of Christ's light.

In his insightful book, Evangelism for Normal People, John Bowen has said: "“After all, Jesus, the archetypal evangelist, is also the most normal person who ever lived, in the sense that he most fully illustrated the Creator’s intentions for human life.”

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