A man who had felt he was being pressured by a friend to accept Christ and to join a church once said to me, “I don’t think people ought to do that. They ought to live such happy and contented lives so that just by watching them, other people would want to be like them and have what they have.”
He’s right. People do not need pressure but they do need examples. They need to see in flesh and blood that following Christ brings happiness, contentment, peace, and stability to life. All about us are people who are desperately seeking those things but they haven’t the slightest interest in Christ, church, or the Bible. If they can know people who have these things, they will be eager to know where they found them. Our good life then becomes our pulpit from...