Every pastor/preacher can empathise with this quote from Francis Chan:
Once you pastor for a while, it dawns on you that nailing a sermon doesn’t mean lives will change. Or you’ll meet a person who’s surrendered everything to Christ, and you’ll realize that your sermon wasn’t even good and nothing you did caused him to become a believer.
There was a guy who had been in our church for 15 years. One day he told me my preaching hadn’t changed him. He said I spoke too much about the “narrow road” and how everyone needs to be radical for Christ. But he said there’s also a “middle road” where people like him can do a lot of good things. I was floored by that. He’s sat under my teaching for 15 years and he still believes there isn’t only a wide easy road and a narrow difficult road, but also a middle road? I’ve been told many times that my teaching is really helpful, that I make things simple for people to understand. And then you hear something like that.
That’s when I remember, I cannot make someone fall in love with Jesus.
Instead, Francis Chan says we should stop trying to make people love Jesus, and learn to rely on prayer, elders, and the Holy Spirit instead.
Read Catching Waves | LeadershipJournal.net.
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