Not only....

In 1 Thessalonians 2:8 Paul is talking to the Thessalonians when he says, "We loved you so much that we gave you not only God's Good News but our own lives, too."
As Christians at times it can be easy for us to try to do "drive-thru" evangelism where we talk to somebody, tell them a couple Bible verses, tell them why they need Jesus, and if they don't accept it we just move on to the next person. The more I have read and the more I have talked with people the more I realized that this is not going to bring anybody to Jesus. When we do this people are expressing their feelings how they feel like an "evangelism project" or another "notch" on our christian belts...things must change. I like that last part of that verse in 1 Thessalonians 2:8 it says that they not only gave them the Good News but their own lives. We must be willing to invest our lives into people. We have to be willing to move outside the church and build relationships with people in our communities and our surrounding neighborhoods. Think about your own life for a minute did someone just sharing the Good News with you bring to Jesus or did it also involve someone investing their own lives into you as well? May we have that same passion to not only share the Good News but to give our own lives as well.