Do you go to an evangelical church? Does that make you an evangelist? It is one thing to affirm in principle the importance of reaching the lost with the gospel message. It is another thing to do it. My word lists evangelists as a special office and calling. Do you think of these only as those who organize mass crusades? Yet you know people who have a special ability to share the gospel message effectively without holding large rallies. My word tells you to desire spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. If you want to have a heart for the lost that you may reach them effectively you can ask me for that and I will give it to you. 

Were you raised in the faith, and did you grow up thinking that the way you learned was the only way? When you were older and learned that other people did things differently did you feel that yours was the only right way? As you advanced in maturity were you able to see that some of the practices you were raised with were not optimal or superior? An even further advancement of spiritual maturity is to seek to combine the best of everything without becoming an opponent of what you leave behind. Cast you net wide, and sort out your catch on the deck, gathering the good into your own vessel. 

Do you think that your spiritual growth is complete? I said that those who hunger and thirst after righteousness were blessed, for they shall be filled. Hunger and thirst involve an awareness of need. I promise that if you seek you will find, but you have to know that you need more than you have to begin seeking. Have you ever read books or encountered people who referred to a more advanced level of spiritual progress than you experienced? Do you avoid them or seek them out? Your spiritual growth is facilitated by the awareness that you have further to go. Seek them out that you may hunger and thirst after righteousness and be filled.

You are at a certain stage in your spiritual journey. Can you see how far you have come? Do you, in humility, see how far you still have to go? The other people you meet are also at a particular stage in their spiritual journey, although early in the process they may not even see it as a journey. Schools understand the concept of learning progression by having grades and a curriculum in sequence. Good teachers will not try to prove how smart they are to their students, but will meet them where they are to move them forward. In like manner you honor the work I am doing in others and advance it by meeting them where they are rather than trying to force them to your level or prove yourself superior.