All or Nothing

All or Nothing.... yes you're right that does sound like a very intimidating title. It could apply to anything really. So I'll stop dilly-dallying around and get to it.


In that last paragraph I touched on what this whole blog post is on. Not getting the point across in the way it should and just going around things rather than tackling things head on. As a Christian, I am saved through what Jesus did on the cross and I am supposed to show off Jesus and make others realise that they need him as well. So when I have evangelised before I often try to do it in my own strength and water it down, instead of saying 'Jesus is the best thing ever and I couldn't live without him' I am often just saying 'yeah he's alright like' (that is said in my welsh accent just in case you were wondering what the 'like' was doing in there).


So there is the danger of watering it down like I often do, but on the other side of the coin there is the possibility of going too far the other way. When I was a teenager in school I lost a lot of friends for telling people that they are going to hell in a very untactful way. I have since not really addressed this at all, I have generally avoided that topic of conversation completely. I thought I was really wrong in telling people they are going to die and go to hell, even though I knew it was the truth, needless to say my evangelising has not really gone anywhere.


Last weekend in the youth group I help in one of my good friends was preaching to the kids. I won't write the whole sermon but basically he talked about one of his friends who had died when he was 18. He then told the kids that they could die tonight as God has given them a certain amount of time to live and they need to stop playing with death and sin as they are heading to hell and unless they sort it out and follow Jesus as they are being stupid if they don't! 


I was initially really shocked and thought 'what is he doing?! you cant say that to the kids!!!' but God spoke and I realised that the kids needed to hear this, I shouldn't just continue on saying everything is cool and there are no worries in life. As this is life and death we are talking about, it's not a game. 


I need to be bold, be strong and rely on God to speak. Not do it in my own strength, but his.


David