"How can we be active witnesses for Christ in an era of unprecedented tolerance, an era in which converting someone else to your religious views is labeled bigotry and predjudice? If tolerance is indeed a national icon, how can we witness without the stigma of self-righteousness and a penchant for doctrinal hair-splitting?"
Erwin W. Lutzer
Christ Among Other gods
Moody Publishers 1994
p. 195-6
I'm going to pull a mean one, here. I sat with this question through twelve chapters. Not unlike a novel, I hoped upon hope that I would find an answer(s) at the end. Can I ask "you" to sit with this question for a day or two? Have you struggled with it before? "I" feel like I face it every day. Concern for the lost--how do I share Jesus without turning people off? -- Should I "care" if I turn people off? Don't they at least need an "opportunity" to accept or reject the truth. Their eternity is at stake.
When I read Scripture, I like to exhaust "Word on Word" resources, if you will: cross-references, concordance, multiple readings. Once, I feel like I have an idea of what the passage means, I'll check with a commentary or two. I think that might be good to do with this subject. Without outside resources, how would you answer Lutzer's questions?
Pondering and Growing,
Lonnie
