2. Present a united front before the world Some Christians get drawn
into silly competitions to be the one to win someone who is ready
to make a decision for Christ. This is a terrible mistake as it just
may cause that person to turn away from the Lord. This is often a
result of one Christian undermining the witness and testimony of the
other. You must take the issue of who will ultimately win that person
to the Lord in prayer and then wait on Him to make the final decision.
The important thing, after all, is that the person in question becomes
the recipient of eternal life, not that he or she becomes a notch
in your Christian gunbelt.
Furthermore, it is a mistake to ever believe that anybody actually
wins a person to Christ. We are only tools that GOD uses to bring
others to Himself. Never forget the following teaching:
“I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth;
but God that giveth the increase. Now he that planteth and he that
watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according
to his own labour. For we are labourers together with God: ye are
God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building” (1 Corinthians
3:6–9).
According to these verses, each person will get credit for what he
does to win that person to Christ, but neither will actually win him
or her. Only God can do that. The person cannot be saved because of
anything you did. Christ the Lord did everything that was necessary
through His atoning death, burial, and resurrection. You will not
lose any reward because you did not happen to be present at the time
the final decision was made.
John 6:44; John 14:6
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