I went to prayer meeting tonight. I guess I thought it was at 7:30 (like any good church you know…) but I when I sat down I thought I was mistaken because the pastor was giving a class on how to do evangelism with a special set of cards with drawings on them. I was almost going to ask if it was the prayer meeting but I realized that you don’t just pray at prayer meetings.

Some thoughts I had during the meeting:

1. Man, it feels as if we’re in the business of winning souls to Christ. All these tricks and… but I wonder why. Why do these people want to talk about Jesus to people?

2. Is it me or some people don’t really understand what the Gospel is all about? What does “Believing in Jesus” actually mean to you?

I am someone who really cares about motivation. I shouldn’t worry about other people’s motivation, that’s not of my business and what’s my motivation for caring so much about people’s motivation anyways? Oh well, what I mean to say is that I feel as if a lot of people want to see more and more people coming to Christ for reasons that do not necessarily glorify God or put Him first.

More people at church! They will finally have peace in their lives! She won’t go to Hell! He won’t have to struggle with that problem anymore!

To be sure these things are good and most are true, but I wonder if people are “getting saved” for the right reasons. It seems that we offer salvation because Jesus heals, feeds and mends the broken heart.  People then receive salvation because they want to be healed, they want Jesus for His gifts. I don’t know, but for me, I want to see people coming to Christ so that more people can love and treasure and  glorify God, not because they want to have a good, pleasant life or to have a bigger church or even, I don’t primarily care about people not going to Hell. I care about Christ being loved and magnified by sincere hearts.

People need to hear the Gospel - even the Christians. People need to be instructed in the Word. People need to read the Word. People need to know the truth and be rooted in it.