So many times I hear people say they are waiting for God to tell them where and when to minister.
You were already commissioned over 2000 years ago to share the good news. You don’t need to wait for God to audibly speak to you to do what He already told you to do.
So many times we pass by people. Simply open your lips, begin sharing the good news of the Gospel. You will be amazed how God shows up.
Revival is something altogether different from evangelism on its highest level. Revival is a moving of God in the community and suddenly the community becomes God conscious before a word is said by any man representing any special effort.”
I… began to feel for nations what I already felt for sinners deformed and scarred by the work of the devil and sin. No matter how bad and ugly people look, I always believed that because Jesus paid the price, salvation was always an option for them. I now realize that the same precious blood that paid the price for sinners has also paid it for nations, and that nothing is beyond His reach. Understanding and embracing the commission to disciple nations is an issue of the heart.
First, it is possible to change the spiritual climate over a city. Second, it is biblical to meet the felt needs of unbelievers without demanding that they first receive Christ. The latter provided theological justification for us to show sinners compassion without compromising God’s holiness by putting them in touch with His mercy through prayers that ministered to their felt needs—so they would access His saving grace out of gratitude for such prayers.
The four-step strategy Jesus had entrusted to the seventy in Luke 10:5–9: First, bless the lost; next, fellowship with them, minister to them, and then proclaim that “the kingdom of God has come near to you” (verse 9).
When Stanley went out in 1871 and found Livingstone, he spent some months in his company but Livingstone never spoke to him about spiritual things. Throughout those months Stanley watched the old man. Livingstone’s habits were beyond his comprehension and so was his patience. He could not understand Livingstone’s sympathy for the Africans. For the sake of Christ and His gospel the missionary doctor was patient, untiring, eager, spending himself and being spent for his master. Stanley wrote, “When I saw that unwearied patience, that unflagging zeal, those enlightened sons of Africa, I became a Christian at his side, though he never spoke to me about it.”
Evangelism is not a ten-letter dirty word. Jesus is our example: He was not a wild-eyed fanatic standing on street corners, screaming at people, “Accept Me or else!” He preached to crowds and became friends with “sinners,” but He did not use a “canned approach,” pressuring each person into a “sinner’s prayer.” I can’t find that approach in the teachings and example of Jesus. Whether it is four laws, five Scriptures, or any other “approach,” sharing Jesus cannot be reduced to a method.
What if followers of Christ stopped looking for work in places where the MOST number of Christians lived and started looking for workplaces where the LEAST Christians lived?
You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.
The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man’s personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as he chooses. It is rooted in the character of the God who has come to us in Christ Jesus. Thus, it can never be the province of a few enthusiasts, a sideline or a specialty of those who happen to have a bent that way. It is the distinctive mark of being a Christian.