The Evangelism Interview

So if they accept or reject you, it doesn't make you valuable.

Now, interestingly, how do you get grace in place? It's your daily quiet time.

So in the morning, you see the Bible, you see your sin, And you get into the golden chain of discipleship, which is you see your sin, and then like the prodigal in the pigsty, you realize it's at home where you belong and you're accepted, and you say, Father, I'm so sorry.

And that's the heart of our spirituality.

Confession as evangelicals is the heart of when we meet the Lord.

The Father embraces us, as in the prodigal, as we say, Lord, I'm so sorry.

Even though we're covered in pig manure.

Yeah.

As we say, I'm sorry, that is the heart of our spirituality.

We see our sin, Lord, I'm so sorry.

We feel God's embrace.

We feel his kiss.

And so you do that.

So you get sin in place, grace.

Then there's joy.

I've been writing a sermon for tomorrow for a woman of such Christian joy.

but there is joy and then there's evangelism discipleship training but what you mustn't do is miss out sin grace joy right and i think that persecution at school taught me i had to i had to be able to grasp god's grace yeah in order to face the opposition you've got to have that internal world simeon who was john stott's great mentor was famous for his morning times And for his

suffering.

And his suffering, yeah.

I mean, he was shut out.

They shut the pews in Holy Trinity, so people had to stand.

I mean, the persecution.

Once there was a mob waiting to stone him, and he fortunately left through the other door of the church.

He writes in his diary at one point, one of the dons walked around the quad with me as though he's amazed they would associate with

him.