As I perpared for Terry Smith's memorial service, I read through the testimony that he wrote down when he became a deacon in our church. He ended it with single sentence, "It all started with a friend asking me to go to Sunday School." That stood out for him as a pivotal moment in his life.
I reflected on that life - a life of service to God, a life of loving others, a life of raising a wonderful family, a life of giving of himself to others. But the significant turning point in Terry's mind was when that friend in Uvallde, Texas asked the kid whose father had died a few years before - the kid who did not go to church - to simply come to Sunday School with him.
Does that friend have any idea what started with that single invitation? Can they even comprehend all the things God set in motion with that simple request? Evangelism is not that hard, becasue God wants to do things through us that we could never do on our own.
Some day, in the future, as your friends look back on your their lives, will they have a similar pivotal moment to point to because you were a faithful witness in giving a single invitation? Why not give it a try this week?
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