The Bible tells us that his Christians were to be in the world.

But not of the world. But exactly how do you do that? Today on Truth for Life we're

continuing our study on evangelism titled Crossing the Barriers. Today, Alistair

Begg teaches us how to practice the delicate balance of what he calls holy

worldliness and he explains why it's necessary.

We recognize that there is a place for special seasons of evangelism and for

unique opportunities in evangelism, especially at a congregational level. But

that's not the drift of where we're going this evening. I want to just think

largely in terms of it as the overflow of our lives. Rather than thinking it's

Wednesday night, it's evangelism. That brings us then to note quite straightforwardly

this truth that there can be no significant impact without meaningful contact. So, wow,

since they made the film The Gospel Blimp, it was a great story where some church decided

in the south that they were going to evangelize their neighborhood. And a couple were really

encouraged as I remember the story because they were having such difficulty witnessing

to their friends. And the church decided that it would take a blimp up, actually a

dirigible, up above the community, and would drop leaflets about Jesus down on the community.

And you have the ultimate irony of the man putting his money in so that the blimp can go

up and the material can fall. And on the Saturday afternoon his next door neighbors are cutting

his grass and he leans over the head and he says to the man, he says, what in the world

is all this stuff that's landing in my garden? And the guy still can find it in himself to

explain the nature of the gospel. So we would rather, many times, send up one of these blimp

and drop little gizmos from the heavens and sign a check for it and ease our responsibilities

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