Has it ever occured to you that missions might be a cost-ineffective, lazy, means of doing evangelism? Heresy on my part? Perhaps!
Has it ever occured to you that Alpha can be a means of stiffling evangelism in the Church rather than a means of increasing it?
No, I haven't been drinking (well not alcohol anyway)! It just seems to me that so many people do nothing evangelistic because "Our Church does it!" I don't need to develop relationships, that's what Alpha does for me! I don't need to be a witness, I'll wait until we put on a mission or some big name evangelist comes, then I can wear a badge, sing some new songs (now that's proper worship!!!) and harvest what I haven't sown (and look so, so good too!).
I'm not knocking Alpha or missions, just trying to make people aware that Christianity is a terminal disease. It is a fatal illness for the 'old' sinful man.
And it's contagious - it's caught from Christians, not talked about from pulpits.
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