“Hot Spots attract people”
Have you ever noticed that when the fish are really biting, you attract other fishermen? It’s the law of the Hot Spot. People are attracted to activity, they are attracted to success, and they are attracted to winners. It’s the quest for the answer to one of those deep inner questions of life, “Wuz Up?”
One of the keys to evangelism in our emerging postmodern culture is the same as it was for the early church, create environments where people who don’t know God can spend time with people who do. The big problem is that this doesn’t happen naturally in the church or in the secular world. So we must be intentional.
The model for evangelism in the recent past was get them saved, then disciple them and then include them in the family. But that doesn’t work as well today. Our culture rejects our ideas of absolute truth, family, and God. We’ve got to go to the flip side. Our strategy to reach out to unbelievers must focus on relationship and even discipleship before they come to faith.
We need to create a community so compelling that people without Christ want to be with us. We need to be strategic and shift our fun, our favorite recreation, our hobby or craft into Kingdom mode. We want to create environments that are safe, accepting and fun for unbelievers who may even hate or reject Christ at the beginning but, somewhere in the development of a personal relationship they are overwhelmed or confronted by the Jesus they see in us.
Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples. – John 13:35 (NLT)
Are people attracted to the love you share?
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Bonus Feature – Fish Latin
Caviar Emptor – Beware of the fish.
Carp Diem – Seize the fish.
Veni, Vidi, Fishy – I came, I saw, I fished.
Cod Erat Demonstrandum – Proving the fish.
Squid pro quo – Done a fishy deal.
Tempus Fish-it – Time flies when you’re fishing.
Prima Fishy – First fish.
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