2 Peter 3 speaks about the fact that God’s delay in returning to earth is directly tied to his heart for people’s salvation. “He is not willing that any should perish but all should come to repentance.” This makes it incumbent on the church to be involved in taking the good news of God’s forgiveness and salvation to all people. We at CCC want to be witnesses for Christ in the places we live, work, go to school, and shop. As such we’ve identified ways to connect people to the gospel. The five areas we would like to be effective in are:
Community Engagement
Support Ministries
Events of Connection
Evangelism Training
International Students
Over the last two weeks we identified things we are doing in the first two areas listed above. Now on to the third...
To complete the picture we would like to create events that are interesting to people in our community to which our people can invite them. Events like a Christian Comedian, Christian Illusionist, events along those lines. We also want to build relationships with international students, kids needing friendship while living in a new culture and setting, away from friends and family.
In addition we all could benefit from taking seriously opportunities to learn to share our faith effectively. It is well said that competence breeds confidence. When we feel competent in sharing the gospel message with people it is a whole lot easier to open up spiritual conversations.
As we move into the next 12 months, it is my heart that we, the people of CCC, will move “reaching out to others” to the top of our list of things to be involved in.
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