19 July 2022
It's not as if we don't care, but the mission is always limited.
Jesus resisted healing the daughter of the Syro-Phoenician woman. She was not under the Covenant of Moses. His mission was to finish the unfinished business of Moses and close that covenant. His followers would go to the Gentiles later. While He did eventually heal the daughter, the principle remained: His mission had limits.
You need to know your boundaries. Other humans are not authorized to decide for you where they are. You give only what God has placed in your hands, and you give it where He says.
What you may not realize is that it's a form of persecution when people who don't understand faith try to pressure you into serving a need that isn't part of your mission. Their reckoning is based on human reasoning about such things, and they can get pretty testy when you argue with them. They have no business intruding, and you might have to get pretty firm. I have gone so far as to threaten someone who wouldn't take "no" for an answer, demanding I do something God said not to do.
They clothe that in the rhetoric of whether you care enough. That's closely related to another issue: What the gospel mission is in itself. People don't need someone coming to their door and making a neatly packaged manipulative sales pitch. What people need is to see shalom at work. The business of explaining the gospel is just a tiny part of what we do. The bulk of our witness is doing the gospel.
Convincing them is not your job. Letting the Spirit speak through your convictions is the job. You don't decide who gets moved by the Spirit, nor when. I've gotten worn out from people glibly insisting that the door of salvation is always open. No, it's not. The door is open when God says it is, and you'll never know when the time is right for someone else. We need to ditch that false doctrine, because the Bible flatly says that no human is capable of choosing salvation, nor even wanting it. Only God can make someone want it, so you don't get any say at all.
The best way to manifest caring is just walking in your faith. If you can't do that, then you have no business talking to anyone about the gospel. Give what you are given, and save the chatter for when the Spirit moves them.
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