This past weekend was my church’s annual Conference on Global Evangelism. One missionary shared with us a video that included a testimony of an Afghanistan missionary. She said that Afghanistan is a very difficult place to share the gospel. They are not reaping a harvest. They are not even planting seeds. Its so closed to Christianity at that area, they have to go through the soil and chuck rocks before they can even plant the seeds of evangelism.
They chuck rocks.
I had never thought of that. Let me try to translate that for the United States’ culture.
Many homosexuals reject Christianity because they think all Christians believe that homosexuals will go to hell simply because they “are” homosexual (I do not believe this is necessarily true). So some homosexuals are dead set against Christianity. Before being able to plant any seeds of evangelism here — you would need to chuck some rocks.
A friend of mine recently shared with me a story of how foreign exchange students from Europe were dead set against Christianity because as children, they were taught that the Bible was filled with contradictions (which they never bothered to discuss). They were taught this in their public schools. Before planting any seeds of evangelism to people like this, you need to chuck some rocks.
Recently I have been running into a man who isn’t ready to accept Christ . . . but he is getting closer and closer. He told me that a few months ago he would have punched me in the face simply because I told him I was a Christian. Just imagine — that’s how much he hated Christians! But he’s actually open and talking with me about Christianity and faith in God now. I’m able to plant seeds with him right now — but according to his story, there was someone else before me who had done a lot of rock chucking with him.
How To Chuck Rocks
Live your life.
Live your life around those with “rocky soil.”
Live your Christian life around those with “rocky soil.”
When the person sees your genuine and passionate Christian life, you will be chucking the rocks. That’s the most basic expression I can think of — but also the most descriptive. To live a Christian life means that we will live with purpose — God’s purpose. That general purpose is the same for every Christian: As we go into the world . . . make disciples.
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