Today I want to talk about a fun word that everybody loves: Evangelism. I just sent chills down your spine right. Some people hear the sound of nails on a chalk board when this word is spoken of! I want you to know that it doesn’t mean you have to get a milk crate and stand on the street corner and shout at people telling them, “Turn to Jesus, or burn in Hell.” In some situations this is needed—if God were to lead me to do that, I would—but I want to talk about what evangelism looks like and maybe give you some hope on its fruit.
I have been interacting with someone that some Christians would see as an outsider. This sister is super nice, but full of the world. I mean, I’ve been there before. So it’s no wonder to me why God is using me. I just decided that one day I’d slowly tell her my testimony as opportunities open up. Sure enough when you ask the Lord you receive. She started to ask questions that left the door open to sharing the Truth of the Words of Jesus, and how they woke me from my lifelong sleep. The beauty of it all is that she made a comment to me the other day about God. “I don’t know what it is, but I feel like I need God these days.” You see that?!
Yes, I asked her to church, and yes she hasn’t come yet. Yes, she hasn’t surrendered to Christ yet. I want to notice what God is showing me.
Sometimes evangelism
TAKES TIME!
We have to remember that Evangelism and Discipleship cannot become two different things. If it does, they only become converts, and we are called to make disciples. Look, I know I normally throwing scriptures at you, and I will again in a second, but we got to remember that God working through us will change lives! Christ moving in us WILL flush out the darkness in lives of people around us!
“9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about MY WEAKNESSES, so that CHRIST'S POWER MAY REST ON ME. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” 2 CORINTHIANS 12:9-10
“15He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to ALL CREATION.” MARK 16:15
“11They overcame him (Satan) by the BLOOD OF THE LAMB and by THE WORD OF THEIR TESTIMONY; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.” REVELATION 12:11
Remember, God knows that Evangelism may seem tough, but it’s not about what we can do. It’s about what he’ll do through us! We will destroy strongholds by the words of our testimony! Furthermore, Jesus did not just say to his Apostles to go to the entire world, that’s a command to us, His Church, His Bride. So boast in our weakness and let Christ’s light shine! I love you brothers and sisters!
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