How to Force Feed a Dying Man

Lately, I have been thinking a lot about evangelization and how Christians are perceived while evangelizing. As I look around the internet and as I watch how we train our people how to evangelize, the one thing I see missing is love and compassion.I see us as believers more interested in winning the argument, like this is debate club or something, and less interested in winning that soul into the kingdom. The way I see it is we see the dying man,having a disease we call sin, and instead of inoculating him to the disease we force feed him horse pills we call the Gospel until he chokes on it. At that point the dying man questions your bed side manner and chooses death over life.

We as believers must first and foremost remember that we were sinners just like them and that, by the grace of God, we were saved from hell by that grace. 

"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8

"And although you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path,  according to the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience, among whom  all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest… But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, even though we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you are saved!" Ephesians 2:1-5

If we as believers are to have salvation in mind then our methodology should reflect that. We should act humbly as Christ did. We should act lovingly as Christ did. We should act with compassion as Christ did. This doesn't mean we present a watered down Gospel. We do not allow people to get away with sin, but when we bring sin to their attention we do it remembering that there is sin in our lives.

Dear believer let the light shine in your life as well as your words, allow those you are sharing the Gospel with see that you live out what you preach. Love the sinner, hate the sin. Desire them to come to a saving knowledge of Christ and do not desire to win the debate.

Sin is serious and just as a skilled surgeon removes cancer from a dying man, we should skillfully desire to bring people to the grace and knowledge and comfort we have in our Savior.