Christian bodily funcitons

No one went to school to learn how to eat (unless you had etiquette classes or have a physical disability),  or breath or see, those are natural functions. Evangelism should be a natural function in our lives something that we and do not have to learn it in schools or seminaries, programs and others. But reality is that churches depend on  evangelism/missions curriculum to learn how to do what should be natural in the first place. One time I asked that question to a supervisor why we had to depend on evangelism methodologies? and he said that "because we live in an imperfect world"(obviously the conversation was more than that and I am trying to be faithful to the context of the conversation). Learn evangelism? perfect world? learn missions? who are we kidding! we are sent to an imperfect world to live holy before God in an imperfect among imperfect people. Sadly that is our mentality, we build our little perfect world within the walls of a little perfect "church" (applies for any kind of church, house church, homeless church, mega-church, mini-church, country club church, purpose driven church, purposeless driven church, armenian church, superhypercalvinisticespiralidouciuos church), and build this perfect scenario in which a perfect heathen answers and agrees with our perfect christian questions, questions that are based not on the bible, but on how we perceive the world, and then we close the sale, bingo! yeah right! The gospel message is that Jesus Christ was born, he lived a holy life, he died on a cross and resurrected on the third day, Jesus commanded us to remember and proclaim the gospel every time we "eat the bread and drink the wine". I am going to stretch it a little, announcing the gospel should be as natural as eating and drinking, it should be a natural christian bodily function, and evangelism should be practice by the entire body of Christ in the same proportion that we eat or drink or do any other bodily functions.
By the way, if my evangelism should be proportional to the way I eat, Brazil should have more Christians than non-christians, but it doesn't.

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Reverse Evangelism little results lots of work

Well, I have not blog in a while, mainly because it takes a lot of time and in order to be a successful blogger, you almost need to be full-time and I do not get paid to write.

THis week I have been thinking on how sometimes we have our evangelistic priorities upside down, and want to accomplish great things and win many to Christ with big events. The bigger the better, so we think, but what is the biblical principle of disciple multiplication? what is the bible example. According to the teachings of Jesus, when the sower began sowing,  everything began with one seed, that seed produced more grains, those grains produce more seeds and more grains and so long and so forth. The parable tells us that one grain produced a great percentage. One seed produce a lot...
Today's christianity teaches us to take a funnel approach to evangelism, we spend most of our time and money producing big events that will result in one disciple, or convert or proselyte, what ever you feel like calling it. We spend tons of resources in media, marketing and production of big events, big Christmas, easter, super bowl, final four, or whatever program is available to bring the biggest crowd we can afford to come on sunday to listen to what we have to say.
Why we don't spend more time making disciples instead of making events, making one disciple at the time,  helping him or her to grow and then observing how he bears fruit? because making disciples is painful, takes time, forces you to be holy and live holy, forces you to open your house, makes YOU vulnerable, makes you cry, you have to be genuine and begins with those that you love, those that know you, and some times those who know me don't want to listen to what I have to say because they see what I do.