Today's Passage: Mark 2

For the first several years after my salvation I fought the feeling that I wasn't experienced enough to share Christ with someone.  I constantly had questions running through my head like: What if they ask a question I don't know the answer to? Or what if they know more about the Bible than me and I look like an idiot?  Or what if they have had an absolutely horrible experience with another christian and they end up getting mad at me?  What I know now is those type of situations normally don't happen.  In fact it is often the energy and excitement that you communicate with that leads others to investigate God more.

It's this truth of energy and excitement that I am constantly trying to share with new believers because new believers are often the best evangelists due to their newly obtained "freedom".  On the flip side I am also constantly trying to reengage experienced believers because we often fall into an "I need more" rut.  What this means is our current christian culture has taught us that the marker of an experienced believer is their participation in Bible study.  While there is absolutely nothing wrong with Bible study there is a problem with constantly filling yourself up and never pouring any of what you're learning out on others.  As experienced believers our time and effort should be evenly spent filling up and pouring out. 

This is why Jesus was having dinner with Levi and the other tax collectors and sinners.  It's also what he meant by verse 17:

 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor,
but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

It doesn't make much sense to over dose on the cure when there are others that need the medicine.  Share what you're learning with somebody this week.