Wednesday Reflection Week 8

The idea of “lifestyle as evangelism” (an idea discussed at class) seems to cut both ways. I am a strong believer of evangelizing through our lifestyle. Instead of forcing a shallow acceptance prayer from the non-believers (which will supposedly get them into heaven in few second), we should evangelize by creating and being part of a Kingdom like Community; and by inviting people into it. Yet at the same time, it would be too idealistic to expect people to just come and desire to be part of our community by just seeing our lifestyle; because our lifestyle can not be perfect. Our community on earth is only a process towards the true community in the eternal Kingdom of God. Therefore we must proclaim the gospel as well as living it out. It is not a “one or the other” issue but to incorporate both aspect of proclaiming and living it out.