What Compels You?

In 2 Cor 5 Paul writes that “It is Christ’s love that compels us” to be his ambassadors of reconciliation. It seems that Paul is suggesting that mission and evangelism ought to be a response to our own experience of the love of God.

I couldn’t agree more, but I also know its not always the way. Here is a new book that we shouldn’t need to read, but in reality we all probably need to get a hold of

Its entitled Compelled By Love and looks at our motivation for mission rather than our strategy.

I actually think the core of our problems in mission and evangelism are much less to do with technique and much more to do with motivation.

Its way too easy to be compelled by an achievement orientation or to evangelism from duty and guilt. To act from love is freeing and beautiful, but I would suggest is also somewhat foreign (sadly).

Maybe its more difficult for those of with a task oriented bent, because I know that most of the women I know see this as so obvious that it seems ludicrous to write a book about it.

If you want to explore mission compelled by love then this looks like an excellent book. And fwiw I am preaching on that passage of scripture at North Beach Baptist church on Aug 31st in the evening.