Evangelism

Okay, so I was listening to another Mars Hill sermon yesterday (The Importance of Beginning at the Beginning) and it got me thinking about evangelism. I always approach evangelism with all the enthusiasm that I give to cleaning the toilet.  "Aw, man, I REALLY don't want to do this, but I guess it needs to be done."  Actually, it might even be less enthusiasm because at least when I clean the toilet I get the feeling that I accomplished something.  So, I started wondering why I've felt this way.  In the sermon, Rob Bell says that where you begin a story affects what the story even is.  The story I had always heard in the church basically started in Genesis 3 with the fall.  We all have fallen short of the glory of God and need to be "saved."  That's true, but it seems to me that the story is bigger than that.  Is that all Jesus can do?  Get rid of sin? If you start the story of God in Genesis 1, it becomes the story of how God created the world and it was good.  And he wants it to still be good, so he is in the process of renewing it, restoring it.  That includes me and you. It includes getting rid of sin, but it's so much bigger than that.  It's God restoring the whole world back to the way he wants it to be.  Now, that seems like a story worth telling!!!