Evangelism, How “Others” Criticize
Our college group in Sarang Community Church emphasises on three goals (very much our mission statement): Prayer, Community, and Evangelism.
People can criticize and judge one another like if it was our sixth sense. Christians criticize other christians if they seem to not follow the doctrine, whatever that is. I get quite upset when I hear my fellow brothers or sisters judge their own friends of how they dress, their character & personality, their social lives, and etc. But before I get carried away on this blog, I wanted to share about evangelism.
My ReComm (Sarang Regional Community) leader told our group that when we go out to evangelize, we can now tell others that we are actually living a christian life since we are being active in evangelism and sharing the word with non-believers. Well that is great if you really have the right motive to go out and evangelize. I had to run an errand for my father and drove down to Hanmi bank this morning. An old Korean lady was sitting outside of the bank and handing out flyers. The flyer in itself was an evangelism tool to invite christians and non-christians to know Christ in their life. A comic strip was drawn in the cover of the flyer. Let me illustrate the comic: a long line of teenagers and young adults were forming a line to get an autograph from a famous CCM (Contemporary Christian Music) sing. In the end of the line, a person who appears to be Jesus Christ asks, “What is this line for?” The girl replies, “A famous CCM singer is signing autographs. Get in the line after me.” The message that the comic is trying to send out is, teenagers and young adults today are really after the praise music rather than to have the desire to know Jesus Christ.
Even in our own college ministry, I’ve heard numerous times from others saying how the praise band has improved a lot or …