I know I haven't posted in this blog in a while, but I wanted to share this testimony I saw in the web:
I was preaching somewhere in a town of 5,000 people and this guy [who was a street preacher] . . . had earrings and everything and hair all moussed and all this stuff because man, he was working the street. . . . He’s the dude, he’s the man you know, Serpico for Jesus type thing . . . and he’s like you don’t understand, you’re in context, you know, you’re preaching . . . [And I said] look, I worked inner city Dallas, I lived with male prostitutes, alright? And I’ll tell you how I dressed: I wore a pair of blue jeans, tennis shoes, a shirt, and my hair was combed. ‘Cause I want to be honest with you, those guys down there selling their bodies and the other guy’s selling drugs, and the girls dying of AIDS, they could care less whether I looked like them or not. What they wanted was someone who loved them. So that whole idea of you gotta look like them to relevant–no, you gotta love them to be relevant.
- Paul Washer
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I think that in our effort to be "culturally relevant" in reaching the lost, and to be "identified" with the "unchurched," we have somehow degenerated in our own conviction and hid our ugly compromising attitudes behind a facade of evangelistic zeal.
Was that too much of a mouthful?
To put it bluntly:
Quit using excuse of "relevance" to flaunt your unwillingness to live a life consecrated (which consequently means 'set apart') unto God.
Your "likeness" to the lost will not save them: only the pure, unadulterated, uncompromising Word of God will.
Something to think about, no?
2 comments:
this reminds me of the sermon last night at the revival and how the msn was saying it really isn't hard to tell someone whether they are from the same social group as you that Jesus simply loves them.
that's right~
definitely something to chew on and digest.
no more excuses!
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