
By Eddie Gibbs
Senior Professor
Fuller Theological Seminary
California
Most of us are crippled by our sense of inadequacy when it comes to sharing God’s Good News with our family, neighbours, friends, and the people we encounter in the course of daily life. Our failure to accept the mission that God has entrusted to every member of his church, whether we like it or not, arises from any one of a number of causes.
We may compare our feeble and bumbling efforts with the clear and winsome communication skills of the gifted evangelist. We mistakenly conclude, “If that’s what it takes, then I don’t qualify. Let’s leave it to the experts, rather than make a mess of it ourselves!”
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