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Right Here, Right Now

By Jeremy Myers
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Right Here, Right Now

Ultimately, evangelism is not about looking to heaven and to the afterlife as the cure for all of life’s problems. The central message of evangelism must not be “Get right with God because then eternity will be grand.” While the Gospel contains truth about heaven and eternity, it also focuses on life here on earth.

The Truth of the Gospel

The Gospel contains numerous truths about loving one another, taking care of our neighbor, looking after our family, and serving those in need. If we are ignoring these aspects of the Gospel, we are not living or obeying the entire Gospel, but are instead using the hope of heaven as a way to escape the responsibilities of life on earth.
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In his book Naming the Powers, Walter Wink put it this way:

Christian evangelism has all too often been wedded to a politics of the status quo and merely serves to relieve stress by displacing hope to an afterlife and ignoring the causes of oppression.

Rather than spending all our time singing songs, reading books, and gazing up into the sky waiting for Jesus to return in the clouds, we must begin looking out into the lives of the people around us, looking for ways to love, serve, and help them with their life here and now.

Some of the central goals and values of the Gospel are peace, mercy, justice, and compassion, all of which are not only to be achieved in eternity, but right here, right now, on earth. So we must not sit idly around twiddling our thumbs while we wait for Jesus to return and set all things straight. We must anticipate His future rule and reign by trying to restore righteousness here and now. We look toward the future reign of God on earth by trying to live out the reign of God here and now. And so we can pray with Jesus, “Thy kingdom come (now), thy will be done (now), on earth (now) as it is in heaven (now).”

The Gospel and Others

So do you want to evangelize and share the Gospel with others? Certainly we must tell others about what Jesus has done in the past, through His life, death, and resurrection, and how this affects our future in eternity.

But we must also live out the truths of the Gospel in our present, showing love, mercy, and grace to others, working to bring freedom to the oppressed, liberty to those in bondage, healing to the brokenhearted, and hope for those in despair. These are central truths of the Gospel and why Jesus came (cf. Luke 4:17-21). As we follow Jesus in living the Gospel, our evangelistic efforts will be more than words, and will include sacrificial acts of love and service.

The goal of the gospel and evangelism is not just heaven, but is also about loving and serving others, right here, right now, on earth, in our lives. Until we learn to love and serve others, we have not begun to evangelize.


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  1. Jeremy Myers on Facebook says

    January 11, 2012 at 5:31 pm

    I love that!

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  2. Greg Dill on Facebook says

    January 11, 2012 at 4:28 pm

    “The kingdom that Jesus speaks so much about is not just something we hope for after we die but is something we are to incarnate now.” (Shane Claiborne)

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  3. Leon @ Macrame Project says

    January 12, 2012 at 12:53 am

    This is a wonderful post! I respect the importance of our salvation. However it is hard for me to understand those who seam to think this means nothing else is important. If I am not mistaken when Jesus was asked if any one thing was most important he said for us to love him with all of our hearts and to glorify his name with loving each other. As a Christian I am working hard to support a foundation that is building children’s basic needs centers in Ecuador. Some of my Christian friends think that this is not important. Thanks for this post. You can see learn all about the foundations efforts and there current fund raiser at macramebracelets.com and at edensrose.org Thanks again

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  4. Sam says

    January 12, 2012 at 2:05 pm

    Great post Jeremy! Yes, let’s live it right here, right now. We really don’t have to wait ’till we “get to heaven”. While we’re at it, let’s party now when we have the chance. We don’t have to wait ’till we “get to heaven” for that either. The Kingdom is in our midst!

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    • Jeremy Myers says

      January 12, 2012 at 8:27 pm

      So true that the Kingdom of Heaven is in our midst. So hard to see sometimes, but it is here.

      Reply
  5. Al says

    January 17, 2014 at 8:51 am

    I want to encourage your readers to consider my book “Heaven on Earth:
    Experiencing the Kingdom of God in the Here and Now.” They can read
    excerpts and unsolicited reviews on Amazon. This book is a game changer.
    Biblical. theological, and historical; yet, Missional, transformational
    and local-church focused. Scholarly treatment of the subject, but
    written at a popular level.

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    • Jeremy Myers says

      January 21, 2014 at 5:36 pm

      It’s a great book. I have read it and really enjoyed it.

      Reply

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