Comments on: 75. “God will not let me into Heaven” http://impact.nbseminary.com/archives/505 Mark Naylor's articles on cross-cultural issues, Bible translation etc. Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:11:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark Naylor http://impact.nbseminary.com/archives/505/comment-page-1#comment-4665 Mark Naylor Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:58:08 +0000 http://impact.nbseminary.com/?p=505#comment-4665 Thanks for your comments, Tim. I like the phrase "meaningful connections". Many people in our churches have "meaningful connections" with co-workers, relatives and friends outside of church. I would like to see church become a place where people find it natural to talk about those connections and significant conversations and find support, prayer and guidance as they live as salt and light in the day to day situations of their lives. Mark Thanks for your comments, Tim. I like the phrase “meaningful connections”. Many people in our churches have “meaningful connections” with co-workers, relatives and friends outside of church. I would like to see church become a place where people find it natural to talk about those connections and significant conversations and find support, prayer and guidance as they live as salt and light in the day to day situations of their lives.

Mark

]]> By: Tim Klaassen http://impact.nbseminary.com/archives/505/comment-page-1#comment-4651 Tim Klaassen Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:48:15 +0000 http://impact.nbseminary.com/?p=505#comment-4651 Thank you Mark. This article made some great points and follows a life of Christ, or, a Christ-life. I think/feel it is so easy for Jesus to be an add-on to our lives so that evangelism also becomes an add-on, rather than a part of the ongoing daily process of living in Him. With regards to events where we invite strangers: this Easter we invited our neighborhood (2200 homes) to come for dinner. We had 80 people come from the community that we did not know before. One man, a man who had been seeking for years, responded immediately, came to dinner, has come to church every week and has come to Christ. This was a man not one of us knew before and he lives a 3 min. drive from our front door. We also had several families join us that we do know and that we have seen many times; these folks are NOT seekers and we haven't seen any change. Of course, what is God up to in their hearts? We don't know. Our hope and pray is that because we have had meaningful connections with these ones over the years, that when the time is right, they will know who to come to in their search for more. Thanks for the article, Tim Klaassen Thank you Mark. This article made some great points and follows a life of Christ, or, a Christ-life. I think/feel it is so easy for Jesus to be an add-on to our lives so that evangelism also becomes an add-on, rather than a part of the ongoing daily process of living in Him.

With regards to events where we invite strangers: this Easter we invited our neighborhood (2200 homes) to come for dinner. We had 80 people come from the community that we did not know before. One man, a man who had been seeking for years, responded immediately, came to dinner, has come to church every week and has come to Christ. This was a man not one of us knew before and he lives a 3 min. drive from our front door.

We also had several families join us that we do know and that we have seen many times; these folks are NOT seekers and we haven’t seen any change. Of course, what is God up to in their hearts? We don’t know. Our hope and pray is that because we have had meaningful connections with these ones over the years, that when the time is right, they will know who to come to in their search for more.

Thanks for the article,

Tim Klaassen

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