Keith Gordon is a pastor and associate director of the Church Evangelism Institute. The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of BCNN1.
If I was to testify about the four spiritual aliens (called my family) whom I live with on a daily basis, I could tell you that there is never a dull moment in our lives. I live in a house where boredom will never want to visit, where monotony could not find a room, and where the ordinary wouldn’t leave his luggage.
Our home is busy with creative people. As I often wondered where all of our children’s uniqueness derived, I had to realize that from generation to generation in both my family and wife’s family, there was and still remains some creative minds that has made their mark on society.
I believe that all children of God who are followers of Christ, should understand what they have inherited from their God and Father. At the moment of our salvation, our daddy in heaven has spiritually deposited in us his image and DNA in order to do a great missional work in our time that reflects who HE is through us.
We should be encouraged to know that our God has gifted each of us, through the extraordinary redemptive work of Jesus Christ, with the power of the Holy Spirit, to use his creative abilities to share our faith with others for his glory praise and honor.
So as Christ-followers who already have the creative power of God dwelling inside of us, it would be ideal to answer the questions for ourselves: How does God want us to access the creative ideas that he wants us to have to evangelize in different ways with others who are far away from Christ? Let’s consider these questions.
First, when will God hear from you first?
In other words, are you prayerfully discerning where God is creatively leading in seeking the lost? Luke 11:9-10, 13 says,
“And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
Since all of creation comes from the Creator, it only makes sense that we seek him for our creativity. Our time in devotion with God should always be spent in prayer for the lost who don’t know Christ as Lord and Savior.
God is the only One who creatively knows how to give us directions to reach the lost for his glory. In our prayers for reaching the lost, we should be asking God for his guidance in….
If you’ve noticed, throughout all the prayer emphasis about sharing faith with someone, the focus has always been completely about God. Whenever our prayers are God-focused, it helps us to discern creatively and become in tune with God for his glory.
Second, what has God put in your heart?
In other words, are you passionately desiring big, God-sized dreams in order to creatively reach the lost? Psalm 51:10 says, “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.” What’s been a unique, longing, aspiring and life-stretching goal that you keep thinking about for God? What is that “Shadow Mission” that hovers over you, that you believe that God has stirred up in you, that you just can’t shake? Dr. John Fuder, professor of Moody Theological Seminary, once said that “Whatever Break God’s Heart, Should Lead Our Hearts.”
Third, where are you already heading for God?
In other words, what are you doing as your normal and necessary function now for God’s glory? Matthew 28:19 says, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”
As we go through the life that God has given us, let’s make disciples. I believe that God wants us to make creative what is already a natural part of our life. Here are several ways we are already serving or can be serving God in our lives.
Source: Christianity Today
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