Evangelism
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Q: What is the greatest thing that anyone has ever done for you?
Q: What is the most heroic thing you have ever heard someone doing for another person?
Remember when the world trade centers were hit. Many people, first responders, firefighters, medical personnel ran right to the scene to help.
Put out fires, provide food, provide medical help.
We call them heros
Because they put someone elses life and needs ahead of theirs.
Their own safety was secondary.
Today’s topic we are discussing Evangelism
What is evangelism?
The spreading of the Christian gospel by public preaching or personal witness.
Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.” And immediately they left their nets and followed him.
What was the profession of the men Jesus called in the verse?
What does this verse mean?
One of the most powerful tools in evangelism or being a fisher of men is your own personal testimony.
Lets looks how someone in the Bible did this.
Paul replied, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no obscure city. I beg you, permit me to speak to the people.” And when he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the steps, motioned with his hand to the people. And when there was a great hush, he addressed them in the Hebrew language, saying: “Brothers and fathers, hear the defense that I now make before you.” And when they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew language, they became even more quiet. And he said: “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God as all of you are this day. I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering to prison both men and women, as the high priest and the whole council of elders can bear me witness. From them I received letters to the brothers, and I journeyed toward Damascus to take those also who were there and bring them in bonds to Jerusalem to be punished. “As I was on my way and drew near to Damascus, about noon a great light from heaven suddenly shone around me. And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’ And I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And he said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting.’ Now those who were with me saw the light but did not understand the voice of the one who was speaking to me. And I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ And the Lord said to me, ‘Rise, and go into Damascus, and there you will be told all that is appointed for you to do.’
Here we see Paul before crowd. He started to evangelize
Starts telling them his own personal journey meeting Christ.
Lays out where he was before
Then how he changed after
You have your own story of how you met Jesus
Its not any less impressive than Paul’s
Paul was literally made blind by Jesus
To show his spiritual blindness.
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
The natural person cannot understand the things of God.
If they cannot then why should we evangelize, but
We spoke about -
greatest thing ever done for you
heroism
What can be greater than getting the gift of eternal life?
Becoming wealthy, finding and marrying the person of your dreams
Does not compare to getting salvation
Q: Can we agree on that?
If we do then we should share the greatest gift that we have been given.
But it does cost something
Why do we shy away from Evangelism?
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
When we tell others about Jesus, like Paul was doing. Is it our words and excellent presentation skills that saves someone?
No
What did Jesus Say?
Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”
Jesus is talking about getting people to pick crops.
Q: What does this mean?
Well see in the next verse
And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
How is evangelizing like scattering seeds?
Does the farmer worry about throwing seeds into places that it might not grow?
Then why do we worry about spreading the gospel?
Does the farmer have to know how it grows?
Q: Why is it important that we evangelize?
So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
Is the Gospel like hidden treasure?
It is unlike any treasure in the world.
We can enjoy it to the fullest but we can also share it with others and it doesnt take away from how much access or joy we are still able to experience.
Do not allow this treasure to be hidden, do not be ashamed to the Gospel.
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