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[bellview]

- Charles Spurgeon

"Have you no wish for others to be saved, then you are not saved, be sure of that"

- John & Charles Wesley

"You have nothing to do but to save souls; therefore spend and be spent in this work."

Comments

[little_marschka]

powerful truth

[loxely321]

that's all true, but doesn't one have to be right and walking with God daily before he can help someone else?

[bellview]

The woman at the well is a prime example of someone who was living in a sinful situation and without preparing or spending days deciding began to tell everyone in her town (most of whom looked down on her as much as they would a leper). Repentance is a mindset of seeing sin an excedingly disgusting and wholly offensive to God. The actions that follow are important, but without that right mindset they are legalism.

[bcpcola]

ummm... just being a pain here - but, where in John 4 does it say the woman was living in a sinful situation? Where does it say that people looked down on her as a leper?

[bcpcola]

...meaning - is it possible she was a widow five times and was pending the sixth kinsman-redeemer? Is it possible she was a severely unfortunate widow/ prophetess / who was initially expecting a racist Jew and experienced Living Water which prompted her to leave her waterpot?

In that time - would the community allow a harlot to just loiter or even visit the sacred Jacob's well? Would the community listen to - and respond to - a harlot's rambling about a Messiah?

[loxely321]

not really answering my question....i'm just saying, before one can preach the word of God, isn't it important that they know the word for themselves....deeply and passionatly?

[bellview]

Being true in you belief is required, and being passionate about God saving people is too.

But I think far too often I have looked at people like Cody and my other friend Jeff who share their faith radically and say to myself, man are they just a special breed of Christian. Now I realize that they are just normal biblical Christians.

I agree that being a preacher should be someone who is above reproach and be someone who knows and loves the word of God, but every Christian is called to be a witness as in Acts 1:8 and everyone is part of the Great Commision.

I'm probably not answering your question still. I just think that the Good News is something that as soon as you hear it you want to tell others.

I wouldn't want someone to tell others about Christ that didn't really fully believe in him even if their life looked clean, if thats what you are asking.

[lydaedae]

but at the same time you would want to be respected by the people you were witnessing to otherwise it would be impossible to actually impact their lives. right? That is to say you don't want go out drinking with some people and the next day turn around and tell them they need Jesus. that's a bit extreme I know but the same concept could apply with anything we say or do. right? you could still believe in God and act against his will. why would you pick that one commandment to go before all the others? you don't which is why the first and greatest commandment is to love the Lord you God, with all your heart soul mind and strength and until that is accomplished wouldn't it be mighty hard to tell others about it?

I know i'm probably being a pain. I just really like asking questions and keeping people on their toes about things (arguing for arguing sake)

[bellview]

I think I'm trying to get across that I am begining to have a higher standard of what a Christian really is