"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." ~Edmund Burke~This quote started off the message on Sunday. Isn't is so true? We don't have to work at evil, it comes "all natural." But what is worse... by doing NOTHING, evil still triumphs. We must "go ye into the world..." so that in the end, good can win!Our pastor is out of town for a few weeks, and this past week the Men's minister gave the message. INCREDIBLE. Basically, he talked about being wise to the world and going out to make a generation of believers. How we as Christians think we can only talk and be friends with other Christians and that no where in the Bible does it say that. It says to not be yolked together (as in form relationships that can comprise your faith.) What it does say is to go and make disciples of all nations!!!Proverbs 11: 30 says "The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise."Jesus didn't just hang out with the righteous and believing. "Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?" Jesus answered them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." ~Luke 5: 29-31I know the hardest part for me is getting into that "religious conversation" with people I know that don't go to church or believe in God. To be quit honest, I try to avoid it at all costs. Besides, who honestly comes into a bar to have a beer and talk about how God can save their soul? But this is a problem that God showed me I need to work out with him. Some advice the pastor gave was joining in conversations and meeting them where they are comfortable. Showing genuine interest in them as a person...getting them to invite you into their world. Using t
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