The famous American pilot Eddie Rickenbacker once said, "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." But, it's very human to think of courage being the absence of fear. That's why Rickenbacker's observation can help us in our Christian lives.
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The famous American pilot Eddie Rickenbacker once said, "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." But, it's very human to think of courage being the absence of fear. That's why Rickenbacker's observation can help us in our Christian lives.
Okay, now that I have your attention and, before I get beaten to death by an angry crowd of tract-wielding "soulwinners", let me explain.
"I am convinced that the next wave of missions is going to happen on the wings of business," says J.D. Greear.
Editor's note: The following is a report on the practical applications of Alister McGrath's new book, Mere Apologetics: How to Help Seekers and Skeptics Find Faith (Baker Books, 2012).
If thinking about the concept of apologetics (communicating the core themes of Christianity to people who don't yet have relationships with Jesus) brings to mind worries about getting into defensive or even hostile conversations with people, stop right there. Sharing your faith with others through apologetics doesn't ever have to be a negative experience.
"Salvation belongs to the Lord," (Psalm 3:8). When someone appeals to God and seeks forgiveness in Jesus, his sins are removed, he is cleansed, his relationship with God is restored, and he is made a new creature (2 Cor. 5:17). All of this is the work of God, not man.
Imagine the miles Saint Paul could have shaved off his sandals if he had owned a mobile device with built-in Wi-Fi.Nearly 2,000 years after Jesus commanded followers to go into all the world and make disciples, an increasing number of gospel messengers are doing their missionary travels by way of social media.
An Unexpected Call
This particular Friday started not unlike most Fridays, as I was working at my desk with elation that the weekend was fast approaching. Then my cell phone displayed an incoming call from my mom. She doesn't usually call me at work, so I knew it must be important. My intuition proved right, as tears filled my eyes at my mom's words. A few hours later, my husband and I boarded an airplane to Chicago for my grandfather's funeral.
How the forgotten outskirts of Chicagoland became one woman's mission field.
"God, I can't do what I love and continue to work full-time."
The day after Kim Dougherty prayed this in 2009, she found out that she and several other employees of Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois, were being laid off due to recession-based woes. Trinity's director of student accounting, Dougherty had worked at the evangelical college for more than a decade.
The best method and timing for outreach ... and the one essential ingredient
"People still respond to the things of God, when the things of God are viewed by us as important enough to talk about."
