Heart of Street Evangelism

Actually whether it rains or not it doesn't matter. The circumstances need not matter. Nothing can thwarth God's plan. One thing that I pray is that this will place the youths and leaders in a position for growth in the Lord. I hope that one day this all will be natural, not processed and "rehearsed talk". But I guess all will have to start somewhere.

"If love ever have a intention other then itself then it wouldn't be love." Someone ever told me this when I was sharing my life with him. I think he is so smart that he can see the gospel part coming that even before I share the gospel to him he had already set up his defenses. hahs

Yes I know the intention is good. We want to love "because" it is God's intention that we become like Christ and that Christ first love us therefore we want to learn to love too. Ok, but note the "because" attached to the initial love intent. So are we then helpless in loving our neighbours? We all have the capacity to love but its against our nature to love another apart from our own. But with the transforming power of Christ this all can change!!!

We should grow in compassion and one day eliminate all other reasons. That means at the end of the day, even if Christ didn't died for you, if God haven't commanded, we should still love our neighbours as ourselves because its second nature to us.

The "because" would then be not of so much importance anymore. Obeying God would then be more of a process and product rather then the reason for our love intention.

In conclusion, for starters it is good that Christ is the reason as to why we love but we should all grow deeper in our reason of loving by loving without reason because love in essence is unconditional. There is no such thing as conditional love.

So lets culture ourselves to love. To show people clearly that we do everything out of compassion for we are intentionally learning to be more like Christ. Just that we are all in the process of becoming. In this light, street evangelism is good "training ground" for those comrades wanting to follow God and be more like Christ. I pray that God will give us his compassion for the people.

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Ok, I guess this is a big paradigm shift for some people. What that is written above is actually not all focused on Street E, rather its more about loving God. Loving God is an action word that involves six things:

"...for the Lord your God is testing you to find out if you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall follow the Lord your God and fear Him; and you shall keep his commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him" (Deuteronomy 13:3-4)

Lord, teach us to value our most precious identity. Its not about being a christian leader or mentor but rather, being your child. Deepen our love relationship with you. May we not be like Esau, who exchanged his birthright for a bowl of pottage.

I wonder why that no matter how much I say I love God, words always make love seems so shallow.

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ok, my engine is starting to warm up, time to work now.