Daily Devotion
With Pastor Ancel Presnell
“PEOPLE PERSON”
We hear the word introvert a lot these days. There are reports of 33 to 50% of Americans being introverts. Within this percentage is what is known as ambiverts; ambiverts are folk that are somewhere in the middle. (Cain, 2012)
The fact of the matter is this, introverts are here to stay, but what about us as Christians? What do we do with those percentages overlapping into Christianity. If these numbers are true among Christians, then we would have to consider a shortage in sharing Christ, meeting the needs of people where they are, and a shortage in Christians being “people person’s.”
Emails have taken the place of handwritten letters and cards. Big screen churches with a pastor on a screen has taken the place of a visibly seen with the ability to communicate with him, and the opportunity to see him and his family. Families struggle to maintain open communication these days, so the thought of Christians engaging those who are lost or in need becomes increasingly more difficult.
Church membership is becoming decreasingly prevalent; accountability is rarely in place within the church and most certainly is not desired by many congregants. It is no wonder that the world does not want to be bothered by the ways of God, how could they be bothered with His ways when His own people do not want to be bothered with His ways. We have stteled on the phrase: “I am not a people person” as acceptable within our faith. The problem is within the framework of the phrase; Christianity at its core is emulating Christ. Jesus was, is, and will forever be, a people person.
Jesus said to His disciples, therefore, Jesus says to us: “8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” (Acts 1:8)
