Friday, January 4, 2013

Share the Gospel?

Often times when I'm reading through TWITTER, I find posts which surprise me, alarm me, encourage me, inspire me, teach me, etc. me ;)  One which always alarms me is, "How do you kick people out of YOUR church."  

Post which encourage me are those from apostolic and prophetic voices who are trying to move the Christian conversation forward in a post-christian world.  I like this from Francis Chan, "Do you really want to experience God? Then go and make disciples."  

The problem with TWITTER is you are having a public conversation without the ability to define TERMS or agree on what WORDS actually mean.  So, I'm left to wander and wonder!  What does it mean to "MAKE DISCIPLES"?  What does Chan have in mind? Do you make disciples through Sunday morning sermons?  Is this what he meant?  Do you make disciples by getting everyone into a small group?  Is this what he meant?  Do you make BETTER disciples of the disciples you already have?  Is this what he meant by MAKING DISCIPLES?  Or,  did he have in mind making disciples of those who are not yet disciples?  Did he intend for us to experience God by getting involved as a disciple-maker in the everyday rhythms of those who are not yet disciples--outside of the church building-- in order for those who are not yet followers to become HIS disciples?  Is this what he means?

Take this as another example.  What does it mean to SHARE the GOSPEL?  Words like SHARE, the GOSPEL are beautiful expressions of what it means to live as a follower of Christ and implicit for us as Jesus followers. But at times, I realize, I'm having a very different conversation based on how I understand the WORDS used in the TWITTER post.

So I need your help, if Jesus were to post to TWITTER an understanding of what it means to SHARE THE GOSPEL, what would HE tweet to us in a 140 characters or less?  

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