Question: You live in suburbia. Your neighbor is similar to you in age and family structure. You don’t know much about your neighbor but feel that God is wanting you to invest in him. Do you…
A) invite him and his family to come to church with you and yours.
B) invite him to a special men’s event your church is hosting.
C) invite him and his family over for dinner, fully expecting to talk about spiritual things. You prepare yourself by reviewing the 2 spiritual diagnostic questions, the Romans Road, and the 4 Spiritual Laws.
D) get to know him over the course of several weeks through numerous conversations. After finding out his likes/dislikes/interests you ask if you can come along to his next _______ (you fill in the blank).
E) None of the above (had to add this as no good multiple choice question leaves this answer out).
Be honest with yourself as you think through how you would “witness” to your neighbor. Don’t be too quick to dismiss how entrenched we all our in our consumeristic christian sub-culture and how that influences how you become Jesus to those around you.
August 6th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Well, good question. The neighbors we have that are our age are believers (both couples are pretty neat). There is a couple in their 50’s and a couple in their 70’s that live right by us as well. With Herman (70’s), I’ve only gotten to ‘D’ in five years. He’s a tough one. You have to earn his respect. Also, with the other couple, I’ve only arrived at ‘D’. That’s a hard one as well.
To answer the question, I would answer ‘D’ to ‘A’, in that order (changing a few things of course, like part b of option C.