The combination of Concern and Oppurtunity

One of my goals of Reverb this year is to grow our evangelism muscle.

I love what Willow Creek church say about their approach to evangelism.
If you cut us we bleed evangelism." Their evangelistic temperature is white hot
No wonder they call themselves a missionary church rather than a missions church
Huge Distinction!

And it's not about sharing our faith out of guilt. It's about being so excited about who God is and what God has done that I can't not talk about it.

I love what one writer described his personal definitions of worship and evangelism.
Worship is bragging about God to God. Evangelism is bragging about God to others.
I think evangelism is a simple extension of worship.

Let's not stop bragging about God when we walk out of church!

At the Last Leaders Life Group I spoke about the powerful combination of concern and opportunity working together

When we only presenting evangelistic opportunities to Christians, but don’t work to raise the concern level, a very small response will be the outcome. But equally so when we only work on the concerned level and don’t present opportunity to people nothing happens, as a concern always needs a cause to attach itself to.

So what comes first concern or opportunity, the chicken or the egg? The chicken of concern always comes first, and births the egg of opportunity.

This is illustrated in the Good Samaritan story where 3 people were faced with the same opportunity, but 2 had a concern deficit disorder and chose not to respond. The 3rd person the Good Samaritan, had grown his concern level enough so when opportunity presented itself, he did something about it,

Concern and opportunity working in combination is powerful

So what can you do to grow your concern level for the Lost?