A WORD ON EVANGELISM

by: Frankie Lucenti

Do you make it your goal to obey God?  Do you wake up in the morning with a passion to follow God’s commands?  If you fall like I do and you haven’t made it a personal goal to follow the commands of God you can start today.  Did you share Jesus Christ with someone last week, yesterday, or today?  God commands us to go out into the world and share the gospel five times in scripture. Read these verses and allow the word of God speak to your heart. 

1.       Matthew 28:18-20

2.       Mark 16:15-18

3.       Luke 24:46-48

4.       John 20:21

5.       Acts 1:8

Don’t live your life in fear of speaking to people about Christ.   Galatians 2:20 says we are crucified with Christ.  He gave everything for us, so now we give everything to Christ.  When we accept Christ we are forever pleasing to God in His eyes because of Christ, but like Paul we are to live our lives to please God.  “Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him” (2 Corinthians 5:9).  We surrender to the work of God.  God does not gift only certain people to be great soul-winners, it is a command to all of us together.  Mark 16:15 “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” In John 3 Christ spoke to Nicodemus, a man who was Jewish. In John chapter 4 He spoke to a Samaritan Woman who in the custom Jews were not seen with, also in John chapter 8 He spoke with an adulterous woman, and in chapter 9 with a blind man.

·         Everywhere 

·         Everyday

·         Everybody

I know we can feel scared and tell ourselves there’s no way we can speak to people we don’t know, but it’s not true.  “Only those whose risk going too far can find out how far one can go.”  I challenge you to push yourself today and speak to friends and family members about your faith because with Christ your fears can be crushed. In times you do fail, don’t quit.  When it gets hard you hold on, because you will never reach the goal if you don’t keep moving forward, so fail forward.  "And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.”(Mark 10:26) So what is the first step we take? We follow Jesus. "And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”(Matthew 4:19)

Our purpose for soul winning is not to establish more members in our church, our purpose is simply to keep lost people out of hell and to follow to the command He gave us.  It is always Christ who saves, never us.  Without Faith all of this is impossible. Believe that you can do this, believe that Christ can work through you to point the lost to Christ.