Dismissing the Call

Love in Action: Our Duty as Evangelists

Love in Action: The Evangelist's Heart

Bible Passage: Romans 10:11–18, Romans 12:9–16

Summary: In Romans 10, Paul emphasizes the importance of belief and confessing Jesus for salvation while highlighting the role of preaching in faith. Romans 12 focuses on the practical expressions of love, urging believers to genuinely love one another and to demonstrate kindness and humility in community.

Application: This message calls Christians to actively engage in loving others, which serves as a witness to their faith. By embodying love and evangelism in daily interactions, believers can draw others to Christ, demonstrating that their faith is real and transformative.

Teaching: The sermon teaches that love is not merely a feeling but an active duty for every believer and connects the need for evangelism with genuine acts of love and service in a community—showing that examples of Christ's love should compel us to share the Gospel with others.

How this passage could point to Christ: In the greater narrative of Scripture, Christ is the embodiment of love and the ultimate evangelist. His actions teach us what it means to love unconditionally and call others to faith, and this theme echoes throughout the testimonies of the church as they follow His example, living out the Great Commission.

Big Idea: The core message is that genuine love for others is the heartbeat of evangelism and the greatest command that Jesus left us, but it’s not always easy. And so to fully understand the reality of evangelism, we need to tear down some of the built up misconceptions of the qualifications of the call.

1. Love Beyond Borders - The Qualifications to the call of Evangelism

Romans 10:11-13

Context, show that there is no one too far gone for revival, so even the worst of the worst, and the people who seem he most hopeless, are worth the work and effort to see a saved soul and transformed life.

2. Love That Leads

Romans 10:14-18

Emphasize the importance of fully devoting ourselves to the people that Jesus died for. Circle the following points:

Read verse 9, and note that even if someone verbally confesses that Jesus is Lord, if we can’t see a fruit of the spirit, they may not truly believe in their heart that Jesus rose from the dead, USE DISCERNMENT.

We are responsible for bringing the people God has entrusted to us to Jesus

Even people in nations without the gospel, need the gospel not just for salvation, but for the life transformation and hope it brings even here on earth

We need to discern out calling. If we have simply chosen to be evangelists because it’s “trending” or “cool” we’re in it for the wrong reason, and need to think it through

3. Love in Practice - The Expectations of the Called

Romans 12:9-13

Talk about the expectations, and really hanker down on the importance of each point Paul hits. Surround the idea that if your heart posture for evangelism is out of selfish desire, meditate and rethink your choice before moving forward. Circle the following ideas:

These are the qualifications of being an evangelist

If you are evangelizing for the sake of building a platform, think your decision over before you move forward

4. Love Amid Difficulty, and Human reality

Romans 12:14-16

Be honest, be vulnerable, break down each segment and note how you as a human don’t always embody someone who puts love into practice. Circle around the ideas of the following:

Our hearts are often unloving, and that disqualifies us from being fit to serve in this way.

Even despite the lack of qualification, you cannot allow your disposition to dismiss the call in which God has given you (bring up Moses’ calling)

We’re here at Pulse Evangelism not because loving people and evangelizing is easy 100% of the time. But because we’re learning and being equipped with the tools needed to learn to love even when it’s hard.

“If you dismiss yourself to the calling of God because of your lack of qualification even despite His willingess to choose you, you will never make an impact for the Kingdom” It’s not about being qualified, its about intentionally loving despite the lack of it.

End off encouraging people that the disqualifications doesn’t dismiss our calling. We owe it to people to give the transformative hope of the Gospel to the world. And we owe it to our Lord God to follow His calling.

Pray for a heart that melts, and a mind that is truly fixated on our mission of reaching people

How easy it is to fall in love with loving instead of actually loving! Children of God, 111

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Welsh Preacher and Writer)

You learn to love by loving.

Francis de Sales

Imagine an artist who creates a beautiful painting. At first glance, it looks effortless, but if you knew the hours of struggle, the mistakes erased, the colors that didn't quite match, you'd appreciate it more. Similarly, evangelism and loving others aren't as seamless as it appears. It's about embracing the struggle, similar to how Jesus embraced the cross, equipping us to love even when it's challenging.

a Samaritan who, unlike the priest and the Levite, chooses to stop and help a beaten man on the roadside. His commitment to act out of love exemplifies how we should respond to the Gospel—by actively serving those in need and committing ourselves to the people God loves.