Reaching the Unreached

Rick Warren shares three church essentials in a recent Christian Post article. Here is a summary:

1. Think like a lost person. If you’re going to be good at fishing, you’ve got to learn to think like a fish. If you’re going to be an effective fisher of men, you’ve got to think like a lost person. To catch fish, you’ve got to know their habits, their preferences, and their feeding patterns. You’ve got to know what the fish you’re trying to reach like to do. If you’re going to understand and reach non-Christians, you’ve got to begin with their mindset.

2. Be strategic. Jesus says in Matthew 10:16, “I’m sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.” Jesus is saying we need to be strategic. Think about who you are trying to reach before you try to do evangelism.

3. Speak the language. You have to learn the language of the unbeliever. They don’t talk in religious terms. I often hear about how resistant people are to the Gospel. But I don’t think that’s true. They’re not resistant. They’re just on a different wavelength. In other words, the better you understand the people whom you are called to reach, the more effective you will be in reaching them.