God's been causing a couple of thoughts to persist in my mind since my trip. First, I've always been lukewarm about handing out tracts to people. I've always questioned whether anyone read them or took them seriously. While I was traveling with the Williamsons, I was witness to their leaving tracts for waitresses, maids in hotels, and toll booth workers. Stephen reminded me of what God says about His word in Isaiah 55: "It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it." I realized he had a point.
So tonight I was rooting around in my closet looking at books and found an excellent bible study I started quite a while ago and never got past the first lesson. It's Be Complete, by Warren Wiersbe. In Chapter 2, Wiersbe talks about how some Christians share the gospel in a negative way, emphasizing condemnation and leaving out all the hope. "Right on, Wiersbe," I thought. Then he says that "the Word of God has the power to generate faith in those who hear," and cites Romans 10:17, which says "faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ."
Now, this is one of those verses that I know is in Romans, but I hadn't spent a huge amount of time pondering. But I realized that when I look at all this together, God is saying that our job as Christians is simply to get the word of Christ to the ears of those who don't believe, and that God's word is potent enough to take care of the rest. We don't need to be eloquent, or natural evangelists, or have catchy taglines. We just need to be bold enough to get it out there.
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