Post by Don Gieseke on Mar 22, 2012 16:01:40 GMT -6
I am revisiting a book that I read a number of years ago, "Called to Greatness," by Ron Hutchcraft. Looking at the boarding pass that I used as a bookmark I was reading it in '04 on a flight from FLL to CLT. Reading it now, considering where I am currently in my Christian life, I am very pleased to have found it on my bookshelf!
I am increasingly feeling the need to reach out to the lost, to make a difference in someone's life. This book is a great how-to manual for that! How do we get our foot in the door? How can we overcome our fear of rejection? How can we be accepted by people from different backgrounds and lifestyles? Some great answers are here.
Here's an excerpt from the chapter entitled "Your Clever Disguise." A pastor is asking a visitor to his church what she does:
>>He expected to hear an occupation for an answer. Instead he listened to Hazel's insightful reply. "Oh, pastor," she said, "I'm a disciple of Jesus Christ, cleverly disguised as a machine operator!"
Now there is a lady who knows who she is. Her friends and co-workers would probably just say, "Hazel? Oh, she's a machine operator." To which Hazel might reply, "No, That's just my clever disguise! My job simply puts me in a position to direct other machine operators to Jesus Christ!"<<
In another chapter entitled "The Story Only You Can Tell" you learn that your personal testimony can be so powerful. And if you can tell that person that you have been through a similar circumstance to what they are experiencing it can be even more so.
Near the end of the book is a chapter entitled "When You're Trusted With a Cadillac." It talks about the care and handling of that new Christian. A quote: "The primary responsibility for the care of someone who has just been born into God's family rests with the person God used to help 'deliver the baby!'
And there's lots more.
I trust you will be as blessed by this book as I have been!
Your brother,
Don
I am increasingly feeling the need to reach out to the lost, to make a difference in someone's life. This book is a great how-to manual for that! How do we get our foot in the door? How can we overcome our fear of rejection? How can we be accepted by people from different backgrounds and lifestyles? Some great answers are here.
Here's an excerpt from the chapter entitled "Your Clever Disguise." A pastor is asking a visitor to his church what she does:
>>He expected to hear an occupation for an answer. Instead he listened to Hazel's insightful reply. "Oh, pastor," she said, "I'm a disciple of Jesus Christ, cleverly disguised as a machine operator!"
Now there is a lady who knows who she is. Her friends and co-workers would probably just say, "Hazel? Oh, she's a machine operator." To which Hazel might reply, "No, That's just my clever disguise! My job simply puts me in a position to direct other machine operators to Jesus Christ!"<<
In another chapter entitled "The Story Only You Can Tell" you learn that your personal testimony can be so powerful. And if you can tell that person that you have been through a similar circumstance to what they are experiencing it can be even more so.
Near the end of the book is a chapter entitled "When You're Trusted With a Cadillac." It talks about the care and handling of that new Christian. A quote: "The primary responsibility for the care of someone who has just been born into God's family rests with the person God used to help 'deliver the baby!'
And there's lots more.
I trust you will be as blessed by this book as I have been!
Your brother,
Don
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