This is part of the whole evangelism/faith-sharing process that’s a little more difficult to deal with. Most of the chapters involve what we’re supposed to do- be prepared with answers to hard questions, prepare ourselves, live authentic lives, pray, etc, etc.
In this chapter, Mark Mittelberg talks about the unseen that’s also going on, the stuff we have no involvement in. He tells a story that happened soon after he was brought into the faith. A coworker told him about a dream that involved him and another friend, and they were saying something very important to her, but she couldn’t remember it all. This other man was one of the key influences in Mark becoming a Christian and as he talked with his coworker, he started telling her that it was likely they’d been sharing the faith with her- in a dream!
That sounds a little crazy to us in our Westernized culture. God doesn’t use dreams right?. . . If you talk to people like noted apologist Ravi Zacharias he would tell of many Muslims he’s known who were spoken to by Christ in dreams.
It’s not that we expect God to act like this. He chooses certain means, and his ordinary means is the Word. This is how we reach out to people. But I think this story makes two points for us. First, be open to God moving as he wants to. Second, and most important, whether or not we ever have or talk to people about dream experiences or something like that, in every case, there is an unseen side to evangelism. Whenever anyone comes to faith it is because the Holy Spirit is working. Remember, that is always part of the process.
