pat loughery

When reading through Justin Baeder’s previous articles on leadership paradigms I ran across a very good story this morning in Jason Clark’s blog regarding evangelism at funerals.

A few christians came up to me and said “let’s pray who we can witness to in here?”, or “did Simon make a profession of faith before Cheryl died, so she knew he was a christian?” etc…I understand why they asked, but however well meaning, inside I was shouting, “did you not see, hear the most wonderful morning of evangelism ever…Cheryls’ life and death story?”

I’m going to lead the memorial service for my neighbor’s sister, which I mentioned a few days ago. I want to celebrate the life of the deceased, and also to proclaim the hope that we have. The situation is different than the one that Jason explains above, but it does give me a great story to remind me about what evangelism is, and what it isn’t.