FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) — Ed Stetzer, executive director of the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism at Wheaton College and recently named chairman of the 2020 Southern Baptist Convention Resolutions Committee, preached in chapel at The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Feb. 13 on the need for Christians to see through “Gospel lenses.”
Stetzer preached 2 Corinthians 5:16-21, deriving four points from the passage. The first, Stetzer said, is that Christians have a new perspective — specifically, they now see through Gospel lenses.
Humorously referring to his tendency to frequently adjust his glasses, Stetzer said Christians today must do likewise with their Gospel lenses, particularly in today’s culture where cable news and social media fan the flames of divisiveness.
“We have a new life, a new way of looking, new lenses through which we see the world, but they need adjusting in a tumultuous time,” he said. “And as Christian leaders, we need to help churches, Christians, and followers of Christ everywhere to adjust their lenses and see things rightly.”
Second, Stetzer said Christians have been sent on a mission of reconciliation. He again encouraged the Southwestern Seminary family to lead out in this regard, making everyday evangelism a common practice in their own personal lives in order to encourage such a practice in their fellow believers.
“If you want an evangelistic church, you have to live an evangelistic life,” Stetzer said. “You can’t lead what you won’t live. And at the end of the day, we need your life and your church not to be a cul-de-sac on God’s Great Commission highway.”
Source: Baptist Press
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