friendship evangellism,love or manipulation?

For a long time i have been uneasy about so called " friendship evangelism"it reminds me so much of the wordly tactics,pretending to be your new best friend, but only because they want your money!( or pressure selling ) as it is called!! It is the prcatice of befriending some one with the sole purpose of bringing them to the Lord, which of course is a very wonderful thing to do, but as the Bible says, how can a bad root produce a good fruit.. Its a wordly practice, what amazes me is that the church believes the wordly people dont know excatly what they are doing, the wordly people are more "wordly wise" than we are, not surprisingly!!

of mice and ...The dawn chorus..

Mice arrrrgh... disgusting little creatures, i just saw one in my house! its 3.38a.m and i cant sleep! weird noises are coming from the other room!!i think its the mouse in Bens overflowing bin!..i just bought him a brand new one in the hope he would empty it himself... what a waste of time that was!! i am starting to hear the begining's of the "dawn chorus" a few isolated tweets from outside, one solitary bird just practicing maybe! So what has the Lord been teaching me lately? mostly to shut up and listen to Him!.. i was reading in the Gospel of John tonight where Jesus says in His own word that He is the Good Shepard. At the regional christian motorcyclist meeting last night a lovely lady said that was she wrong because she cant quote the Bible, chapter and verse?,in fact that she doesn't know the Bible well at all,and most of all because we are an evangelistic group,is she in the wrong?,i have met Bible experts who cant evangelise, one dear brother who told a young man in the street to be saved he had to"have greater rigtheousness than the Pharisees"..the Kid had no idea what he was talking about!!!...another ( less dear brother) said its "like a door in your heart just open it", but no mention of a sense of our own wrong-doing,conviction of sin which is by the Holy Spirit, unless a person has been primed "so to speak" by the Lord, the words we say are meaningless to them..so what is the answer? how does anyone get saved,do we just have to be in the right place and time to get saved?..is it just random?, free " entry today to Heaven to those standing on the corner of Stanley street"! Its also the classic " chicken and egg" scenario, are we chosen before we are born, OR do we choose Him!! So the sun is nearly up and the dawn chorus is in full if quiet flow," time for bed said Zebedee"

12th June 2014

56 today! scary!! Everything is going well with Joe and Daisy being here, although i did say that on Monday, and we had a few problems yesterday! they were just arguing..But God is good, life is good too! we had a good day at "one bright day" in a local park here,31 yes 31!! churches got together to put on an event free tea and cakes, music, bouncy castle,the weather was not good for the first hour, it was torrential rain!!,we gave out some tracts and talked to a few non-believers,i was able to bring all the equipment back which i loved because i want to be helpful,i cant support the Christian Motorcyclist Asociation financially at the monment, because i support Pastor Emmanuel in Zimbabwe, and have done for about 10 yrs.

Prodigal, sweet sweet sleep, And a great and wonderful Saviour!

I am able to sleep!..for the time being anyway,God is good! the enemy has been having a "go", but to no avail! the dryer has died, so has the washing machine,Ben punched me yeaterday,and pushed over a large t.v and i did get upset, more angry though,and really told him off, and didnt take him to town which he really wanted to do!! , the neighbour called me a bad name,last week,("a bitch"), but through Gods grace its not affected me, i have not retaliated to the neighbour,(i am trying to turn the other cheek)! so life is good,even a few years ago just one of these things would have sent me into a dark place for ages, but the Lord has allowed me to keep my Peace! Praise Him, God is GOOD,ALL THE TIME!!