DEFINING EVANGELISM
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· 14 viewsUNDERSTANDING THE BIBLICAL DEFINITION AND BASIS FOR EVANGELISM
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Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? My beloved has gone down to his garden to the beds of spices, to graze in the gardens and to gather lilies. I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine; he grazes among the lilies.
I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine; he grazes among the lilies.
My beloved has gone down to his garden to the beds of spices, to graze in the gardens and to gather lilies. I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine; he grazes among the lilies.
How would you define evangelism? I suppose that there could be a number of ways. For the purposes of this study, let me define evangelism in this way. This definition comes from the Amplified Bible and we will be coming back to this definition several more times over the next few weeks:
How would you define evangelism? I suppose that there could be a number of ways. For the purposes of this study, let me define evangelism in this way. We will be coming back to this definition several more times over the next few weeks:
How would you define evangelism? I suppose that there could be a number of ways. For the purposes of this study, let me define evangelism in this way. We will be coming back to this definition several more times over the next few weeks:
Evangelism is “teaching (heralding, proclaiming, preaching) the gospel (the message from God that leads us to salvation) with the aim (hope, desire, or goal) to persuade (convince, convert).
Having given that definition, I want to clarify a few things right at the very beginning of this study lest there be an confusion or questions about what I believe and what our church ought to believe about the gospel and about evangelism:
1. There is a difference in gospel living and evangelism
1. There is a difference in gospel living and evangelism
2. Evangelism requires words.
2. Evangelism requires words.
No words means no gospel. No gospel means to salvation.
3. There is such a thing as the free offer of the gospel
3. There is such a thing as the free offer of the gospel
4. All men can have a relationship with Christ if they will believe.
4. All men can have a relationship with Christ if they will believe.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
5. When men are seeking Jesus, we should point them to the Church
5. When men are seeking Jesus, we should point them to the Church
Romans 5
if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.
Augustine said, “Outside of the church there is no salvation.” That is, there is no way of hearing of what salvation is and no way of seeing salvation in action apart from the church.
It is in the church where unbelievers see what Christianity is all about. It is the church where doubters of God come to see Him on display among His people. It is where they see our Beloved!
The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.” Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
6. Unbelievers must hear of Jesus from the lips of His people
6. Unbelievers must hear of Jesus from the lips of His people
The message that we are to proclaim to the world is “I am my Beloved’s and my beloved is mine.”
We cannot stay silent about the love story that is God’s redemption.
We cannot stay silent about God’s love for His people and for his Church.
When we proclaim the gospel, we are telling the world of the reality that is ours…the reality of redemption through Christ.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
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What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Conclusion:
Conclusion:
May the Lord allow us to make these things a reality in each of our lives today!