Friendship Evangelism

    A comfortable Christianity is one focused our own needs and our own personal relationship with Christ, but a more challenging and often less comfortable Christianity is one focused on someone else’s needs.  Chief among everyone’s needs, whether one know it or not, is to discover and appropriate a saving and healing relationship with God through Christ.  We all know someone for whom this need has not yet been met.   

    A very natural way to be the agent for meeting this need in someone’s life is simply to come alongside that person in mutual love, care and concern, becoming their confidant and soulmate, discovering the often hidden needs in their life, and meeting those needs as the Lord leads and equips you to do so.   A person’s deepest need, however, is not going to be met through friendship with you, but through friendship with God.   

    Someone somewhere along the way dubbed Friendship Evangelism, which is making a friend, being a friend, and introducing your friend to Christ.  (This should sound familiar to all those who have been involved in a "3-Day" Movement in the Church, such as Cursillo.)  Friendship Evangelism is active and personal.   Personal relationships, personal witness, and personal invitations to “Come and See” grow God’s Kingdom.