Scriptural or Not?

I want to challenge us to look at things we have always done and never questioned.

As usual I will challenge us to look at the scriptures for answers, ready to discard tradition if it stands in opposition to God’s word.

Where do we get scriptural justification for evangelistic crusades?

What about door to door evangelism?

We were discussing this with friends and were at a loss to find any justification for the same, the Bible pointing in a completely opposite direction.

The Bible consistently points at identifying a man of peace, accepting his hospitality and dwelling there as long as you are in their village/ city. And it is the same whether you are looking at the Old Testament or the New.

Could this be the reason we have been unable to evangelise our world even as it continues becoming a global village?

Could we be dissipating all our energies and resources doing something the Bible never told us to do? Could this be the reason that even with all the decisions we continue recording nothing happens to bring more people to church or even change the spiritual tenor of society?

Have we commercialized the Gospel, running it the way we do successful businesses? Are we using fleshy (mammon) standards to gauge our success as evangelists?

For your discussion let me suggest this;

The way we do our evangelism is unscriptural. This means that we can never expect a spiritual harvest therein.

The fact that we have done it for generations that way is no reason for us to continue in error as God will never support our erroneous practice.

God is only bound to His word. Never will our traditions move God otherwise.

Let us share those verses. I am waiting to be hit by them, even knocked to sense.

And in closing let me ask something I have addressed earlier.

Where in the Bible is Christ called someone’s personal Savior?

God bless you