You Stink! It Is
Unavoidable
“For we are the aroma
of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are
perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance of
life to life” [2 Corinthians 2:15-16]
Unless you are
willing to become the aroma of death to those who are perishing, you will never
be the aroma of life to those who are being saved.[1]
The point of Paul’s words to the church at Corinth were that
you couldn’t have it both ways. If you are going to be used by God as a witness
to the gospel, you are going to stink to those who don’t get it no matter what.
Jesus Christ is the aroma of death to those who are perishing.
Let us not loose sight of a critical point; unless you are
willing to become the aroma of death to those who are perishing, you will not
become the aroma of life to those who are being saved. How much of our
programmed evangelism in horizontal churches is an attempt to avoid what cannot
be avoided. Vertical oriented churches move past the methods we intend to make
evangelism easier for people that have their heals dug in, resisting what God
desires from us – GO! Let us not get caught up in “stealth evangelism” sneaking
up on an unsuspecting soul that we are about to pounce on. Following Paul’s
words in 2 Corinthians 2:15-16 he states; “For
we are not, like so many, peddlers
of God’s word…”[emphasis added]. I want to become BOLD in my witness. I do
not want to become a peddler of the gospel like some carnival barker!
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