Ya gotta want it

Ya gotta want it, to be a witness to the Resurrection.

I was reading Martha's blog again -- her blog is always full of wisdom.  She was relating the story of a pair of Jehovah's Witnesses who came to her door to tell her about a convention they were going to be part of in town.  She explained that she was a United Church of Christ pastor, and that she probably wasn't going to come to their convention, but she did it in a polite and kind way.  She relates that she admired their courage.  It does take courage to knock on someone's door -- literally -- to tell them about Christ.  And then Martha wrote:

Ya gotta want it, to be a witness to the Resurrection.

A few year ago -- actually, more than a few, our Witness Committee at church targeted a few blocks near our church as a field for witnessing.  We got together as a group and walked the neighborhood, hanging door hangers on the doors.  Steve and I did it, but neither of us liked it.  It was a little creepy -- sometimes a lot creepy -- to walk up on people's front porches.

Ya gotta want it, to be a witness to the Resurrection.

It's hard, isn't it, to speak about God to those whose faith is not clear to you?  It's difficult to put yourself out there -- vulnerable - and speak the message. 

Ya gotta want it, to be a witness to the Resurrection.

And yet, even though it's hard, it is what we are called to do.  To be a witness to the Resurrection with the way we live our lives, what we say, how we go about touching the lives of others.

Ya gotta want it, to be a witness to the Resurrection.

Do we really want it?