Lets have real talk: evangelism?

Today I went around campus and had real conversations with people about Jesus: 

I had "real talk" as one of the students I met called it. 

We talked about this passage from Luke 18:

⁹ To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: ¹⁰ “Two men went up to the temple to pray,one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. ¹¹ The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. ¹² I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’

¹³ “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’

¹⁴ “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

Its all about faking it. 

And I wonder how do we sometimes approach evangelism in a fake way? 

1. When we think we are righteous and better than others. 
2. When we don't have compassion, but just want to check this hard obligation off our list of being a "good christian"

I am excited and challenged by this campaign and the scripture and how it relates to doing evangelism. 

I think my struggles in evangelism is to try to do it in my own way instead of how the Spirit leads. Also I have found that in rejection that I begin to doubt God. This is a struggle especially as I work in ministry. I find that when things go well and lots of people join InterVarsity I feel good about myself and trust in God. But when our numbers are down I begin to doubt. I wonder if God is not good. I ask how can God be real and good if so many reject him and don't even care about him? 

These are the real questions I bring to you God. This is the real attitude I bring to evangelism. Teach me to be real with my doubts and real about you God! I pray you would use evangelism to teach me more about you and your character God! 

I believe you are calling me and developing me as an evangelist! That is my prayer that I would not do evangelism or force it. I pray I would not lose heart but be a man of God trusting in you Lord. Let me not do evangelism but become more and more an evangelist who can't help but share about Christ, and through that let me see you change hearts God to follow Christ!

Amen