Why "Conversations"?

Why is this blog titled "Conversations"?

Well, I really just picked a name for it, but as I think about it - I believe we need more "conversations" in our lives.

We all need relationships with other people and it takes "conversations" to make those relationships happen. We also need a REAL Relationship with our creator and the lover of our soul, God - and that happens through "conversations" with other people as well.

We tend to think that only having people come to a service where the truth about God is presented will be almost "magical" or something - and then they will believe. If that is the case, then everyone who has been presented with the truth should have accepted it.

Don't get me wrong, I completely believe that a person can reject the truth, and definitely it is the work and power of God Himself that brings a person into a relationship with Himself. But God's method of doing this is more than a lecture or a presentation - it is through real people, real relationships, and real "conversations". And I would bet that most people that do respond to a presentation about God's truth and the gospel, have had a relationship with someone in their life - recently or in the past - that has had spiritual "conversations" with them.

Those of us who have been privileged to discover this "born again" life that Jesus offers must have "conversations" with those who have not yet believed. We must give allow people into our lives and give them opportunities to ask real and hard questions, without them being fearful of what we will think about them or that we will no longer talk to them b/c they don't believe what we believe.

God knew that it would take a real person to reach real people like you and me - so He sent Jesus - as a man - not to simply present the truth, but to live it, relate it to people - with His life and with His "conversations".