I have to admit that sometimes I’ve been a “closet” Christian. That is, there are times when I’d rather not share my faith with those around me. People who know me on the Internet would probably doubt this is possible, but as the Net has shown, often what you are on-line is vastly different from who you are off-line.
Because of the growth I have had to go through, dealing with my depression and trying to find the underlying cause of it, I have had to look deeply at myself. It is amazing to find out things about me that I hadn’t even realized were true until I was forced to look them in the eye.
One of those things is in the area of personal evangelism. I have a great deal of friends who I don’t even know if they are saved or not. Sadly, up until this point, for some of them I haven’t even bothered enough to care whether they are or not.
This Lord’s Day, I found myself challenged by the sermon. It was on Mark 5, about the story of the demon possessed man who lived in the tombs. Jesus cast out the demons, who were Legion, and saved this man. So we know that there is no place that Christ cannot save someone, there is no person so lost Christ cannot save him or her, and there is no believer that Christ cannot use in His kingdom.
Because of this, I have determined to try to at least share the Gospel with some of my friends. Not my on-line friends, who already know my beliefs, but my off-line friends. No more shall I wear the mask of indifference in public. The person I truly am is the one I express through my apologetics articles and this website, and there is no reason that my off-line life cannot follow the same model.
Who knows…perhaps there might even be more people in the Kingdom because of it.
