The Vow of Silence
We may shake our heads when we think of the oxymoron of monks with a lifetime vow of silence. They profess to know God, but never preach the Gospel to the unsaved. They are dead to the world. Many in the Church are like that. Like four days dead Lazarus, they have nothing to do with the outside world. They have been scared to death by the very thought of "evangelism." They sit paralyzed on the pew, wrapped in the shroud of the fear of man. Therefore, we must groan in prayer for them, and like Jesus outside the tomb of Lazarus, lift up our voices and call the dead Church to come out of the grave. There is great joy among laborers when a cold and lifeless corpse comes out of the tomb of inactivity to be a living witness of Him Who is the resurrection and the life. There goes another minute. Gone forever. Go share your faith while you still have time.
