For some time, I’ve been asking myself the following question – “How do I actually share the gospel with people???”
As a teenager, I was dissatisfied with the gospel presentation that begins with the question – “if you died tonight, do you know where you’d go???”… Doesn’t the gospel of Jesus have just as much to do with living as it does with dying??? The four spiritual laws don’t seem to capture the essence of the story of Scripture… How can eternal things be summed up into 4 laws??? And the “Romans Road” is OK… but aren’t those six verses little pieces of longer chapters and more complex thoughts???

Searching For God Knows What has helped me understand the gospel in a way that doesn’t trivialize the fullness of God’s love or minimize the cost of following Jesus…

In a professional world where everything seems to be summed up in formulas, seven step plans, and propositional sales pitches (including our presentation of the gospel), Donald Miller presents a fresh look at the story of man’s brokenness and God’s redemptive plan His people… Using story, analogy, poetry, and narrative, Miller breaks the mold by recapturing the image of a relational God.

*** Side Note - For those who are skeptical of Donald Miller because of his association with the Emerging Church (whatever that is…), please read this book!!! You will find Miller to be quite conservative in his theology, and very well thought out in his systematic theology… Probably Reformed, Calvinists, etc… but he actually has a heart along with a brain… Different from most Calvinists I know…

Especially interesting are chapters 5-8… Perhaps the best human writings that explain the natural brokenness of mankind…

Was William Shakespeare an undercover evangelist??? Was the story of Romeo and Juliet actually the poet’s write of the gospel of Jesus??? After reading the last chapter of this book, you might think so…