Reaching Out

https://odb.org/MY/2021/08/31/sharing-jesus

I doubt any of us can be like Evangelist Dwight Moody who preached the Gospel to someone at least once a day. Yes, it is proclaiming and not converting as the choice remains with the hearer. Reaching out to someone at least once a week or once a month might be more doable, especially in these pandemic afflicted times.

Even then, I think not many among us actually reach out as much in the sense that it’s a regular thing in our life, done consistently and faithfully. Perhaps the busyness of life, our work, our family responsibilities or even our ministry tasks may make it difficult for us to reach out on a regular basis.

To motivate us to make this a more regular feature in our life, may I suggest that we recall how we ourselves or our loved ones came to the faith? How someone else took the trouble and the determination to reach out to us and our families. Perhaps it was not a one off thing but a constant encouragement to us to consider Jesus? Perhaps that person was always there for us, helping us in our times of need and despair and cheering with us when we were happy and celebrating. Perhaps that person cried with us when we cried and grieved with us when we grieved?

I think reaching out should be a more regular thing in our lives and yet I know that it is not so much a once off proclaiming of the Gospel to a stranger in the street although it can be. I think we should all remember and cherish how we ourselves came to the faith and reciprocate by doing the same to someone else. Make it regular but a long term project that we may be like Christ to this person so that Christ Himself will lift the scales of his or her eyes, the Holy Spirit may touch his or her heart and salvation and eternal life shall indeed be a reality for that person!