Tour Guides

I've been reading Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell recently, and it's been a very inspiring read. He had a few interesting things to say about telling people who don't know Jesus about Him. Here are some quotes.

"Perhaps we ought to replace the word missionary with tour guide, because we cannot show people something we haven't seen."

"So the issue isn't so much taking Jesus to people who don't have him, but going to a place and pointing out to the people there the creative, life-giving God who is already present in their midst."

"Tour guides are people who see depth and texture and connection where others don't. That is why the best teachers are masters of the obvious. They see the same things that we do, but they are aware of so much more. And when they point it out, it changes the way we see everything."