Thrift Store OA
by Tracey Connolly
I witnessed a random act of kindness today (what we call an “Ordinary Attempt here in DE Land) that moved and humbled me. I was thrifting at the WARC on Keystone (in Reno). This little gal that works there has some special needs. She went to up to a gal that looked like she could use some help. She looked a little sad and tired to me. The little gal said “That is such a pretty necklace!” The gal took it off and handed it right to her.
October 29th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Categories: OA Stories
April said
am November 3 2009 @ 12:48 am
That’s pretty immediate and doable, isn’t it? Nice story, nice girl.
josh said
am December 3 2009 @ 12:40 am
How is that evangelism?
We get the word evangelism from the exact same word we get Gospel. That is completely devoid of the Gospel.
Paul isn’t ashamed of the Gospel in romans 1:16, not “random acts of kindness.”
Randy said
am December 3 2009 @ 2:47 pm
josh,
I totally understand your concern. It is NOT evangelism as we have been taught over the past few generations. It’s what we call “ordinary attempts” at evangelism, and we believe it ‘counts’ to God. Most of the Christian team has backed out of the whole “make discples” project of the Great Commission due to evangelists (like myself) making this all about pitching Jesus like he was a new soap product…and pressing to close the deal. I’ve written a couple of articles posted here that may be helpful to see what we’re trying to do here.
But I admit…this is a huge paradigm shift for us all. We want to get more of our team off the bench and into the game again. DE helps make that happen. Here are the links to three short articles that might be helpful:
http://doableevangelism.com/2008/03/02/clear-the-bench/
http://doableevangelism.com/2008/06/01/busting-the-myth-of-pre-evangelism/
http://doableevangelism.com/2009/06/11/paralyzed-by-preparation/
Hope this helps. Thanks for stopping by and commenting!