Action Vs. Intention
A certain well-known evangelist was attending a convention in Indianapolis about mass evangelism. Inspired by the stirring messages he was hearing about winning the lost, he went with his song leader to the street corner during an intermission that evening. The song leader stood on a box and began to sing. When a crowd had gathered, the evangelist began to preach. Soon so many people had assembled that they filtered into the auditorium. It was filled with spiritually hungry people. The Evangelist began to preach passionately!
After a while the convention the delegates returned and began to mutter and complain amongst themselves. The nerve of this evangelist to impose himself this way—who does he think he is? Eventually, a representative of the delegates approached the evangelist in mid-sermon and whispered into his ear. The evangelist stopped preaching and said to the crowd who had come to hear the gospel, “Now we must close, as the brethren of the convention wish to come and discuss the topic ‘How to Reach the Masses.’
There always seems to be a great divide in life between action and intention. For every go-getter who is ready to take the field, there are a thousand professional conference delegates who are content to go on endlessly discussing the need without ever actually doing anything. But the ones who will go on to see God’s will fulfilled in their lives are people of action, initiative, and urgency.
Do you have a dream? Well, don’t just talk about it – do something! Faith without action is dead.
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