I find it interesting that today as we commemorate the Trinity doctrine, the church assigns the Bible reading that includes Jesus' Great Commission — Jesus' mandate to go and make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:19). You can't do evangelism without believing in the Trinity, proclaiming the Triune God in whose name we baptize. And to believe in the Trinity, it seems, is to be an evangelist. That's the way it's supposed to work, but it does not feel that simple when you hear these words as calling you to be an evangelist. Let's face it, doing evangelism does not come easy for most of us.

I am right about our problems with evangelism, am I not? Most laity feel that that's the job of the pastor with a little help from the evangelism committee. Most of us say we do not have those gifts. P…