Love your enemy
Ex-hostage: "I wanted to gain his trust"
This article recounts the story of a woman held hostage in her own home, told by the woman herself. It is one of the most amazing examples of evangelism I have ever heard.
What Ashley Smith did in a very short period of time is what we are trying to do all the time -- really reach people's hearts with the gospel. She did this by sharing herself, by exposing her weakness -- to an armed, escaped killer, no less -- and truly caring about the person she was speaking to. Hers was not merely a negotiation technique used just to save her own life. I think she just had a story to tell. If it was the last thing that she ever did in her life, she would tell that story.
As the Christianity Today weblog observed, this is putting the oft-neglected idea of love for enemies into very real practice.
This article recounts the story of a woman held hostage in her own home, told by the woman herself. It is one of the most amazing examples of evangelism I have ever heard.
What Ashley Smith did in a very short period of time is what we are trying to do all the time -- really reach people's hearts with the gospel. She did this by sharing herself, by exposing her weakness -- to an armed, escaped killer, no less -- and truly caring about the person she was speaking to. Hers was not merely a negotiation technique used just to save her own life. I think she just had a story to tell. If it was the last thing that she ever did in her life, she would tell that story.
As the Christianity Today weblog observed, this is putting the oft-neglected idea of love for enemies into very real practice.