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Hand Raising Extroverts and Introverts poll – My People
I’m a card carrying introvert. I come from a family of introverts. I remember multiple family vacations where we would go to book stores – purchase books and come back and all read … on vacation. My family sits around and turns the 2000 piece puzzle set upside down because they need more of a challenge. There was a running joke that I was a mute when I first attended Faith and Victory Church. It was only mostly joking. I am more comfortable listening than I am talking.
I have ALWAYS struggled with sharing the gospel and sharing my faith, even today as I’m called to preach this message I struggle with it. Being an introvert means unless God miraculously changes me I’ll continue to struggle with sharing the gospel for the rest of my life. Sometimes I’m jealous of Pastor Matt. Why wasn’t I given the ability to just talk with people? He has the gift of gab. It looks SOOO natural. When I share my faith it feels like I’m a robot or reading straight from some kind of pamphlet.
The truth is that it doesn’t matter that I’m an introvert, it doesn’t matter that I struggle, it doesn’t even matter that I sound like a robot. God wants ME and you to share the gospel. Being an extrovert or “good” at it has nothing to do with it. God has called each and every one of us to share the gospel regardless of how we feel about it.
1 Corinthians 1:17 – For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
That’s me without wisdom and eloquence. Give a few weeks to plan I can do anything. I can even stand up here and give a sermon. You put me on the spot without preparation though and I’m a mess. I don’t reference the greek, I don’t know the Bible verses, I may even forget whole Bible stories, I’ll probably struggle to find the words I want to say, I’ll probably sway side to side and you’ll probably get a lot of umms and uhhs. None of that matters though … the power is what happened on the cross. The power is from Christ Jesus’s sacrifice.
Romans 1:16 – For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
I struggle not with being ashamed of the gospel message but being ashamed of myself sharing the gospel message. I think things like there is no possible way people could leave a conversation with me and think that Jesus is real. It’s not about me. My ego and my fear of rejection get in the way of doing what God commanded me to do. It says the Power of God that brings salvation. It doesn’t say the power of Todd … even though it rhymes. I have to get over myself.
Matthew 9:37-38 – Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”
Our church is located in the city of Auburn population of roughly 80,000 people. Currently we are the second largest Bible believing Christian church in Auburn with a Sunday attendance of about 500 people. Meaning our church represents a little more than half of one percent of the population of Auburn. I did the rough guestimate math (I rounded up and counted any church close to Christianity) for the population of all the churches in Auburn and around 4000 people or 5% of the population of Auburn attending any type of Christian Church. The statistics also tell us that a BUNCH of those people in those churches are filled with old people that won’t be around in 20 years. The harvest is plentiful.
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Hand Raising Extroverts and Introverts poll – My People
I’m a card carrying introvert. I come from a family of introverts. I remember multiple family vacations where we would go to book stores – purchase books and come back and all read … on vacation. My family sits around and turns the 2000 piece puzzle set upside down because they need more of a challenge. There was a running joke that I was a mute when I first attended Faith and Victory Church. It was only mostly joking. I am more comfortable listening than I am talking.
I have ALWAYS struggled with sharing the gospel and sharing my faith, even today as I’m called to preach this message I struggle with it. Being an introvert means unless God miraculously changes me I’ll continue to struggle with sharing the gospel for the rest of my life. Sometimes I’m jealous of Pastor Matt. Why wasn’t I given the ability to just talk with people? He has the gift of gab. It looks SOOO natural. When I share my faith it feels like I’m a robot or reading straight from some kind of pamphlet.
The truth is that it doesn’t matter that I’m an introvert, it doesn’t matter that I struggle, it doesn’t even matter that I sound like a robot. God wants ME and you to share the gospel. Being an extrovert or “good” at it has nothing to do with it. God has called each and every one of us to share the gospel regardless of how we feel about it.
1 Corinthians 1:17 – For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
That’s me without wisdom and eloquence. Give a few weeks to plan I can do anything. I can even stand up here and give a sermon. You put me on the spot without preparation though and I’m a mess. I don’t reference the greek, I don’t know the Bible verses, I may even forget whole Bible stories, I’ll probably struggle to find the words I want to say, I’ll probably sway side to side and you’ll probably get a lot of umms and uhhs. None of that matters though … the power is what happened on the cross. The power is from Christ Jesus’s sacrifice.
Romans 1:16 – For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
I struggle not with being ashamed of the gospel message but being ashamed of myself sharing the gospel message. I think things like there is no possible way people could leave a conversation with me and think that Jesus is real. It’s not about me. My ego and my fear of rejection get in the way of doing what God commanded me to do. It says the Power of God that brings salvation. It doesn’t say the power of Todd … even though it rhymes. I have to get over myself.
Matthew 9:37-38 – Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”
Our church is located in the city of Auburn population of roughly 80,000 people. Currently we are the second largest Bible believing Christian church in Auburn with a Sunday attendance of about 500 people. Meaning our church represents a little more than half of one percent of the population of Auburn. I did the rough guestimate math (I rounded up and counted any church close to Christianity) for the population of all the churches in Auburn and around 4000 people or 5% of the population of Auburn attending any type of Christian Church. The statistics also tell us that a BUNCH of those people in those churches are filled with old people that won’t be around in 20 years. The harvest is plentiful.