Interview with Bob Martin - Shaped by Scripture

I'm hearing a few things in this conversation that I, I love to talk about, and this is m- a conversation more than just a, you know, 21 question rapid fire thing.

But I, you and I both love evangelism.

Mm-hmm.

It's, there's times where it's difficult.

Mm-hmm.

There's seasons where, you know, we're not really harvesting.

We're more just planting or watering, and that's okay.

Um, but the frequency of practice, this is in my life, the frequency of practice makes a huge difference.

When there's seasons where I'm not sharing the faith as much, I find myself more apprehensive when I feel con- compelled to.

You know, you'll be out and maybe you've been scarce in sharing your faith, and so you're out and the Lord compels you, "Hey, I want you to go speak to someone," I find myself to be more hesitant.

But on the other side is when I'm frequent in my obedience to share the gospel, I'm much more inclined to jump sooner than later.

And in my life, just the frequency makes me so much more comfortable.

The frequency of sharing makes me quicker to jump forward in faith and obedience and to share the gospel.

Um, and then I love ...

One of the things my, uh, one of the things that one of my professors in seminary used to say all the time is that evangelism will work if you work it.

Hmm.

But it will never work if you don't work it.

Right.

You affirm that?

Absolutely, 100%.

Um, and I think, you know, one of the prayers I pray every day is, "Lord, order my steps."

Yeah.

And so, you know, I can, I can recount time after time after time, um, encountering situations where God has ordered my steps day by day to, for me to share the gospel.

Tell us, do you, do you have that story about being in the hospital where God ordered your steps and you ended up providentially in a, maybe in the ICU with somebody at the church? Is that your story or Jeff's story?

Um-