The aroma of life

I've know about The Cross of Christ event for a long while and always planned to do a ring-round of my non-Christian friends in the days leading up to it. For as long as I've know about it I've been scared about this, being all too aware that, "To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life." (2 Corinthians 2:16). Actively inviting conflict and disapproval is not how I normally go about things. But in thinking it through this morning, I realised that, while the aroma of death response is a real possibility, it's not my responsibility. The news is good news and I should present it as such, with sincere excitement and joy. Suddenly the phonecalls got a whole heap easier.