In some way, we Christians need to be more disrespectful when it comes to sharing the gospel.
I know I sometimes think too much about what I'm gonna say instead of just saying it. Not to say that we shouldn't think before opening our mouths, but how many times do we want our words to be perfect and just the most convincent words we ever said that day that we end up not saying anything? I know I sometimes do that :/ ....and I need to remember I'm only accountable for what I say, and God will do the rest.
I just finished reading a Charles Spurgeon sermon and it is so similar to what you're saying. It makes you think....we are accountable for what we do and say, but we are also accountable for what we DON'T do and say. Silences kills. Keeping the gospel a secret kills....the thought of being in some degree, a murderer, is intimidating isn't it?
"And do you not think that we may have been seriously injurious to others by denying them the Gospel? If you want to murder a man, you need not stab him—starve him! If you want to destroy a man, you need not teach him to drink or swear—keep back the Gospel from him!
Be in his company and never say a word for Christ! Be where you ought to speak and be sinfully silent and who knows how much blood will be laid to your door? Do you not think that to deny a cup ofcold water to a man and let him die of thirst is murder? To deny the Gospel—to have no word to say for Jesus—is notthis soul-murder? God accounts it so." Charles Spurgeon
