Helpful thoughts from Ben Pfahlert for those of us pondering how to present the Gospel at Easter time to those who have heard the message many times before, but just don’t get it.
I have been using a phrase over the last couple of years and, by God’s grace, I have noticed that whenever I use the phrase, the equinoxers [twice a year church attenders] prick up their ears and listen.
How do I use the phrase in conversation? I’ll say stuff like:“Yeah, I spent 19 years of my life thinking that Christianity was all about how high the mercury in my moral thermometer climbed… but a friend of mine helped me to see that what I was believing was not ‘CHRIST-ianity’ but rather ‘good-ianity’. He shocked me. I used to think that being ‘good’ was the goal. But being good is the goal of most world religions… most beliefs ‘good-ianity’. ‘Christ-ianity’, on the other hand, is completely different.”
I’ll throw that hook out there, wait a few seconds, pray, and see what happens.
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