Deeper Reflection
COVENANT EFC HAS ADOPTED A MODEL OF RELATIONAL evangelism called B.L.E.S.S. – Begin in Prayer, Listen, Eat with a friend, Serve a friend and Share your story. This week, our devotions will focus on these five components. In Covenant EFC we believe wholeheartedly in relational evangelism, because the Gospel is about God drawing us into relationship with Himself and with one another! Sharing the Gospel is not just about persuading someone else to agree cognitively with some Christian doctrinal statements.When we do any Gospel work, we must begin in prayer. This is because the Gospel goes forth by God’s initiative and through God’s power. Paul instructs the Church in Colossae to pray for the evangelists, that God may open to them “a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ” (v.3). Let us pray that the hearts of our pre-believing family, friends, colleagues and neighbours will be an open door that the Gospel can enter. Many of them may in fact be hardened to Christ because they are steeped in worldviews that reject God of the Bible – secular humanism, scientific materialism, postmodernism or other religious worldviews. These worldviews include many assumptions about life that are difficult to let go of. Therefore, it is only by God’s gracious power that hearts are softened to the Gospel message.As Paul exhorts, let’s also be steadfast in prayer (v.2), not giving up easily even when the prayers seem to have no impact. We can pray with thanksgiving because we trust in a good God who is always working out His good purposes!