Irvine511
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maycocksean said:
"Preach the gospel always. If necessary use words."
and this, i have no problem with.
let me give you an example of my own sort of preaching.
i was on the 14th street bus last friday. and i was done up to the nines -- black pants, black shirt, funky jacket, had my "art school/Daniel Libeskind" glasses on, and my hair done up just so. i looked really very gay. and that was cool. hardly something new in DC.
i'm often the only white person on that bus, but at one stop, two really jock-ish white boys with white baseball hats got on the bus (what can i say, gentrification). they seemed pretty stoned, and had a tough time understanding that their bus ticket stubs they got earlier in the day were no longer good -- and they didn't have the $1.25 each to get new tickets. the bus was stopped. the driver refused to go anywhere. and i thought, "here's a chance to show two dudes who i would assume might harbor more than a bit of homophobia some consideration, and maybe they'll think that we're all like that."
so i gave them both bus fare. they were greatly appreciative, and so were the rest of the people on the bus.
now, i wasn't acting out of the goodness of my heart. not totally. i wanted to the bus to continue down 14th street as much as anybody else. and i also thought, hey, time to score some small points for "my community" -- sort of an "elevate the race" thing. and they appreciated it. (and hopefully they read me as gay, just as i read them as "possibly homophobic," which i realize is a stereotype, but whatever).
i would think that the best missionary work is somewhat along those lines -- you do good work because you feel that you are a representative of Christ (or whomever) and that compells you to do good works both because it is a good thing to do, and because you want to glorify him (i.e., elevate the race).
does that make sense?