So I was sitting outside the Con today on our uni mission table (with a rather large packet of starburst chews grinning menacingly at me...) when a guy from my old history tute approached the table and asked, 'Sorry I've never been to church, but can I have a lolly?' To which I responded of course and tried to nonchalantly slip him an invitation to our thurs afternoon meeting...
But the irony of what he said really struck me as he was leaving- didn't he realise we were TARGETING people who didn't go to church? Like, what's the point of hunting down Christians to discuss whether all religions are the same, they've already made up their minds, right?
To us it's perfectly simple, but for other people I suppose the idea of someone who isn't Christian attending a Christian group meeting is a bit of a rarity.
It highlighted for me how important relational evangelism is, how people benefit from seeing your life in action. It also encouraged me to continue working at mission at the Con, because depite the fact that my friend lived in the largest city in one of the wealthiest, best informed and most accepting countries in the world, he had never been to church.
What would you have said to him?
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