The Tally Tells
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Straight to the Cross
COLUMN: Thankful
The Tally Tells
by A. A. Neale
Time to do some math: outside of meetings on
Sundays and mid-week, and not counting your
personal devotional time, how many hours do you
spend a week in personal evangelism?
Count'em up. How many hours INVITING people to a
Bible study -- public or personal; how much time
discussing somebody's eternal destiny WITH THEM;
how many hours in someone's living room or around
their dining room table with an open Bible to
bring them to a knowledge of salvation?
How many hours? Count'em up.
Now count how many hours you spent during the last
week doing things like:
- watching TV or movies: ____
- playing sports or golf: ____
- playing computer or video games: ____
- surfing or chatting on the Internet: ____
- reading novels, romances, sci-fi or adventure
books: ____
- other personal, recreational time: ____
How many hours? Count'em up.
Now compare the two numbers:
-> hours spent in evangelism: ____
-> hours spent in personal time: ____
What do the numbers tell you? Maybe that you need
to repent. Maybe that your priorities are skewed.
Maybe that some changes are in order.
Maybe not. Maybe your evangelism time is greater
than your personal time. If so, congratulations.
And know that you're an exception in this me-first
world.
The tally tells. If you are a Christian, you have
a single mission in life, that of glorifying God
by preaching the gospel. Let us make sure we --all
of us, individually -- are fulfilling it. Woe to
us if we don't!
If you're not a Christian, you may find in Christ
a purpose to your life that will outlast time to
stretch into eternity, a joy at knowing that your
efforts will have permanent effects.
"Go therefore and make disciples of all the
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew
28:19, NKJV).
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