Mission Impossible or Mission Possible

It may or may not surprise you, that I have been thinking about mission/evangelism for a while now. In fact, several decades. Our current series about “Stepping Out” continues to fuel my fire as I, and many others, think about that simple question, “What can I do?

A great question, and allow me, if you will, to turn to the great Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. He said:

I well remember distributing them (tracts) in a town in England where tracts had never been distributed before, and going from house to house, and telling in humble language the things of the kingdom of God. I might have done nothing, if I had not been encouraged by finding myself able to do something … [Tracts are] adapted to those persons who have but little power and little ability, but nevertheless, wish to do something for Christ. They have not the tongue of the eloquent, but they may have the hand of the diligent. They cannot stand and preach, but they can stand and distribute here and there these silent preachers…I look upon the giving away of a religious tract as only the first step for action not to be compared with many another deed done for Christ; but were it not for the first step we might never reach to the second.

What moves me, when I read these words, is the reality that without a first step there will never be a second step. So, as you read this, what might you consider an appropriate first step with those you know and maybe even with others that you don’t know so well? Let us always and at all times be bold for Jesus.

Those who sow with tears, will reap with songs of joy. Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy. (Psalm 126:5-6)

Rev Ian Barnett
Acting Rector