We had 69 people go door-to-door this evening. While not our greatest turn out ever, (we've had as many as 120 before), I was quite pleased as we did not cancel AWANA tonight and thus we had many adults and children in AWANA that would normally participate in the blitz. 69 is still a critical mass and we passed out 1000s of fliers.
My team was made up of Nicole and Colton. I have to say it was a very meaningful time for me to go door-to-door with my wife and son.
Nicole's commitment to reaching the lost is undiminished despite being a mother of four young children and my love for her welled up as I watched her enthusiastically talk to people in their front yards, inviting them to our Easter services. Humanly speaking, she has every reason to skip the blitz (lack of sleep, small children, very busy schedule, etc), but she has dedicated her life to making disciples--even while a mother of small children. She often says, and rightly so, that her primary disciple prospects are our four kids, but she also sees beyond our kids to the enormous scope of lostness and so she participates in the blitzes and is going on a mission trip to Greece later this year. My love and admiration for her continues to grow even after all these years.
Colton gets more and more brave as we continue to take him door-to-door. This evening he took his own stack of fliers, about 30-40, and ran off down the street ahead of us going door-to-door. To be honest, since he's only 6, I get a little nervous when I can't see him for a while from the house where I'm putting out a flier, but I'm not going to get in the way of his excitement to reach people for Christ. He's developed enough to go by himself to front doors to hang fliers. This evening he was going up to adult men and women to invite them to our Easter services. At one point, he ran after an adult man taking an evening stroll about 75 yards down the street from us. I'm really proud of his growth and development as a budding disciple maker.
Parents, I'd urge you to use the blitzes to train your children in evangelism. It's one thing to tell them at the kitchen table about the importance of evangelism, it's much more effective discipleship for them to go door-to-door with mom and dad to learn how to engage with lost people in a Christlike way. Just like they need to sit with you in "big church" to learn how to worship and listen to you pray to God so they can learn how to pray, they need to watch you do evangelism to learn the spiritual discipline. It translates into their lives and you'll see them hand out tracts at school and at parks to their peers. For the parent of dependent children, our blitzes are a two part exercise: 1. engaging the lost 2. discipling your children in the spiritual discipline of evangelism.
My team was made up of Nicole and Colton. I have to say it was a very meaningful time for me to go door-to-door with my wife and son.
Nicole's commitment to reaching the lost is undiminished despite being a mother of four young children and my love for her welled up as I watched her enthusiastically talk to people in their front yards, inviting them to our Easter services. Humanly speaking, she has every reason to skip the blitz (lack of sleep, small children, very busy schedule, etc), but she has dedicated her life to making disciples--even while a mother of small children. She often says, and rightly so, that her primary disciple prospects are our four kids, but she also sees beyond our kids to the enormous scope of lostness and so she participates in the blitzes and is going on a mission trip to Greece later this year. My love and admiration for her continues to grow even after all these years.
Colton gets more and more brave as we continue to take him door-to-door. This evening he took his own stack of fliers, about 30-40, and ran off down the street ahead of us going door-to-door. To be honest, since he's only 6, I get a little nervous when I can't see him for a while from the house where I'm putting out a flier, but I'm not going to get in the way of his excitement to reach people for Christ. He's developed enough to go by himself to front doors to hang fliers. This evening he was going up to adult men and women to invite them to our Easter services. At one point, he ran after an adult man taking an evening stroll about 75 yards down the street from us. I'm really proud of his growth and development as a budding disciple maker.
Parents, I'd urge you to use the blitzes to train your children in evangelism. It's one thing to tell them at the kitchen table about the importance of evangelism, it's much more effective discipleship for them to go door-to-door with mom and dad to learn how to engage with lost people in a Christlike way. Just like they need to sit with you in "big church" to learn how to worship and listen to you pray to God so they can learn how to pray, they need to watch you do evangelism to learn the spiritual discipline. It translates into their lives and you'll see them hand out tracts at school and at parks to their peers. For the parent of dependent children, our blitzes are a two part exercise: 1. engaging the lost 2. discipling your children in the spiritual discipline of evangelism.
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