At the beginning of the month of October I knew my spiritual discipline was going to be Evangelism - but I had no idea what that was going to look like.
I decided that before I could preach the gospel to others I had to first preach it to myself. So everyday of the month I had decided to read an excerpt from "A Gospel Primer for Christians" - each day it re-iterates the gospel and explores different aspects of God's beautiful and glorious truth of salvation. Oh how blessed and undeserving we are of the good news of Jesus Christ!
Yet after the first week of October I started to grow frustrated with myself - how on earth was I going to start sharing the gospel with people other than myself. Since my dad's death I had not actively pushed myself to go out and share the gospel to the people around me - I felt overwhelmed not knowing where to start. Well prayer of course prayer is where you start - and boy did I start to see God at work!
To give you a background to this blog post: Two weeks after my dad's passing I had applied for a bursary for students studying to be in ministry/education. A month later I found out that I had received the bursary but not only that I found out the bursary had been started in memory of 3 member's of the McCullough family who had died in a car accident. Who but God would provide a bursary like this so soon after my dad's death also from a car accident?
Well early October I received an email from the church affiliated with the bursary asking me to share my story at their Sunday service on Oct.20th. I knew that this was God presenting an opportunity for me to share my story, give glory to God, and present the gospel. As I wrote my testimony I spent time going back through the horrible memories of my dad's death - emotions I had tried so hard to suppress came rushing forward, but I think in my brokeness God used me to write and share my story. That Sunday God gave me the opportunity to stand on the pulpit of a church that I don't even go to and share my brokeness, God's glory, and present the gospel to many of the people in that church who I knew did not know Christ - only God can orchestrate something like that!!
That night a dear friend of mine who does not know the Lord came to spend the night with me. She asked me how the service was and again I was able to share my story with her, and share the gospel with her.
It is only now as I look back on this month that I realize how God used me to share His Good News even though I had felt so useless and unable!
God is able!! I hope this encourages you when your month comes for evangelism!!
Blessings <3
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