Last night I just finished the book Just Walk Across the Room. Overall, this book by Bill Hybels takes a look at the role an individual can play in spreading the kingdom of Christ. Typically, books like this have a tendency to simply tell you things you already knew. This book was different. What the book talked about was pretty simple, but challenging us to move out of our comfort zone. There are two quotes that I want to share:

"The question is not whether or not you have a contribution to make. Every single one of you has an astoundingly large contribution to make. The real issue is whether or not you're investing yourself in activities that spur your people toward heaven. The issue is whether or not you are leveraging your creative energies, marketing skills, and problem-solving capabilities for the sake of landing more people in heaven. The issue is whether or not you prize people enough to share the good news with them in creative and alluring ways." (p. 188)

Hybels that despite our own reservations or our own assessment of our abilities, we all have ways to talk to others about Christ. We just have to be willing to do everything in our life for God. To break away from a self-centered life and working toward a God-centered life will be difficult, but it paves the way to amazingly effective discipleship.

"It really is true: the spread of the gospel--at least in today's reality--boils down to whether you and I will continue to seek creative ways to engage our friends, inviting them to explore the abundance of the Christ-following life and helping them choose eternity with God instead of settling for a terrible fate when this life is all said and done." (p. 200).

That pretty much sums up the book. If you are curious about what the book looks like, you now have a picture of it. :)