Comments on: Our Witness

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:09:19 +0000

I agree this is a timely post. My dh is a church planter and we believe strongly that our job is to reach people and then to teach them to BE the church. I agree in part that the church in the west will look different than churches in developing nations. I disagree that it should. We are in Texas now and there are 11 million people in Texas that are unchurched and there are over 3 million that go to bed hungry at night. We in America are foolish to believe that the neediest in the world are outside our borders. Until the church in America wakes up to the problems of spiritual and physical hunger within America we will continue to be ineffective.

Thanks for your post and your obvious commitment to see the news of Christ spread throughout the world.

By: Justin-Perry, FL

Justin-Perry, FL — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:26:51 +0000

You are either going to be a “keeping church” or a “reaching church”. Very hard to be both.

By: Greg Simmons

Greg Simmons — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:18:15 +0000

Perfect…absolutely perfect.

By: Jeff Goins

Jeff Goins — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:31:18 +0000

Great post, Shaun. I believe that this is why we need to go on more trips like the one that you went on – not so that we Westerners can evangelize the rest of the world necessarily, but so that they can teach us how to be Christians.

By: SuperBabysitter - Ashley

SuperBabysitter - Ashley — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:43:11 +0000

I need to rephrase what I wrote.

I don’t want a “Just kidding” at the end of this blog.

I just want people who take offense too quickly to understand that it was a sarcastic blog post. I am a Christian myself, and am blessed to be a part of a church that does outreaches to minister to people not just give them a few services a week with a cool playground. I must say Shaun, your blog post blessed me thoroughly and I hope everybody that sees my comment before, also sees this one.

Case and point: I don’t want unbelievers to see this blog post and think that you were being overly-critical or to write all of us Christians off as that.

Hope I explained myself well enough so everyone can understand what I am saying.
God Bless

By: Ellisia Jesnes

Ellisia Jesnes — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:04:52 +0000

Wow

By: readytoserve

readytoserve — Mon, 18 May 2009 02:02:31 +0000

for many years, you’ve been my favorite artist, now you are my favorite comedian!

By: pete wilson

pete wilson — Mon, 18 May 2009 01:36:11 +0000

Great post Shaun. That pastor and his words have echoed in my mind and heart ever since that day.

By: Cummings Family

Cummings Family — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:35:21 +0000

Christ would do that, he would help the little children, because to enter the kingdom of heaven, we must become like them. True ‘Christianity’ is manifested among true believers, like our brothers and sisters in third world countries.

By: Lindsay @ Not2Us

Lindsay @ Not2Us — Sun, 17 May 2009 02:06:38 +0000

P.S. I’m glad you didn’t add a “Just Kidding.” This isn’t a joke, and, even when it stings, it must be said.

Thank you for taking a strong stand.