Welcome to Roseville Covenant Church!

Who has told you the good news of Jesus? I can list a whole slew of people who turned my heart toward Jesus in small and big ways. Their influence moved me to consider God in deeper, truer, and more personal ways. They ‘evangelized’ me (evangel = good news).

Sometimes when we think of evangelism we think of street preachers or formulaic gospel presentations and we get the ‘ick.’ And, because we don’t want to do that, we excuse ourselves from any form of sharing God that involves words. We decide we’ll stick with sharing God through our actions — which early church leader James does declare as vital in his letter to early Christians (2:18).

But, as usual, it is rarely the either/or we want it to be. Along with just and loving actions, our public witness must involve words — giving explicit voice to God’s goodness and truth. Paul writes to the Roman church that this is only logical: “How can people call for help if they don’t know who to trust? And how can they know who to trust if they haven’t heard of the One who can be trusted? And how can they hear if nobody tells them? And how is anyone going to tell them, unless someone is sent to do it?” (Romans 10:14—15 MSG).

This coming Sunday my hope is that we can recover our identity as those sent to speak, rid ourselves of fears or insecurities, and discover our voices to use on behalf of another. After all, we have the best news to share!