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Ask each student to share their testimony.
Did a youth pastor or youth worker have an impact on you?
Share abut Jon Elder
As I look back, I don’t remember a single lesson or talk that Jon or anyone else taught.
I do remember that he took time with us and made Jesus relevant to me right where I was.
Jon spent time with my friends and I and he earned the right to confront us with the Gospel.
I think this is missing in evangelism today.
We tend to be program driven and not relationship driven.
Most evangelism programs are canned and if someone turns down our sales pitch, we go on to the next person.
What we need is more of what I call, Responsible Evangelism.
What is Responsible Youth Evangelism?
What I am calling Responsible Evangelism is different than most evangelism programs because it is a relational approach to evangelism.
It’s relationship evangelism.
We are to build relationships with people with the intention of sharing the Good News of Jesus with them.
Most people believe that Evangelism begins with the Great Commission when Jesus told his followers to go and make disciples.
Responsible evangelism actually begins before the Great Commission.
It flows out of the Great Commandment in
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Responsible Evangelism flows out of love for God and love for others.
The Lord wants us to love Him above everything else and with everything in us.
Then He says that because of this love for the Lord, we are to love others as we love ourselves.
Our love for others flows from the love that the Lord places inside us.
We are basically to love people into a living and personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.
How have any of you been impacted by someone loving you towards salvation?
Because we love the Lord and others, we tell others about the great love that God has for them.
Because of this love, we can fulfill the Great Commission Jesus gave us just before he went up into heaven.
Jesus gives us a clear command that we are all evangelists.
Today, many people call themselves evangelists and us that title or office to go around and take up great offerings into the coffers of their ministries.
Their idea of evangelism is to have people raise their hands that they had prayed the sinner’s prayer.
They get their show of hands and publish how many people accepted the Lord that night.
Evangelism is much much more than that.
When I was with YFC, our mission statement was...
To participate in the body of Christ in the responsible evangelism of youth, presenting them with the person, work and teachings of Christ, discipling them, and leading them into the local church.
From an individual perspective, or even a church perspective, we all are supposed to participate in responsible evangelism.
None of us can do it alone, we have to work within the whole body of Christ.
Too many ministries act and talk like they are the only ones doing evangelism.
We need to work together in Responsible Evangelism.
Responsible Evangelism is not presenting the gospel, asking for a show of hands and then leaving.
Responsible Evangelism is an approach that includes the following principals that will fulfill he Great Commission to make Disciples.
The six principles are: Maximum influence; Person centeredness; Spirit-led boldness; Multiplication; Long term concern & Follow through care.
We are to go and make disciples because we love the Lord and others.
Far too many people seem to evangelize out of obligation.
They want to beat the “hell” out of someone.
Jesus style evangelism flowed out of his love for others and he extended forgiveness to everyone he came in contact with.
Responsible Evangelism is relational.
Underlying any and all Responsible Evangelism are the following six basic principles.
Foundational Principals of Evangelism
I don’t know about you, but I have seen my share of horrible evangelism.
Bad can range from button holing everyone that comes within arms reach of us to never asking anyone to give their lives to Jesus.
I remember a church some friends of mine and I visited after becoming Christians.
We had long hair at the time and probably looked like good prospects.
A deacon came and stood by our row while they sang 100 verses of “Just as I am…” He kept looking at us and encouraging us to get up and walk the aisle.
That wasn’t a pleasant experience.
I am a strong believer in what I will call Responsible Evangelism.
There are six principles that form the foundation Responsible Evangelism.
Each of us will feel more comfortable with one or more of these principles than someone else, but any attempt at Evangelism with only one or two of the 6 principals will be un-balanced.
For instance, if we just measured our success by numbers of those who give their lives to the Lord, we would probably be twisting many arms or making people feel so guilty they would give heir lives to Christ.
People would raise their hands and we would quickly count them so we could talk about how many people gave their lives to Christ because of our ministry.
I took a course in door-to-door evangelism to make myself bolder.
The course helped me, but the script was just that – a script to back a non-Christian into a corner so they would have to accept Christ.
I had so many doors closed in my face that my nose was flattened.
On the other hand from the time I became a Christian in 1973 to the time I visited a church in New Orleans in 1986, no one ever asked me if I had a relationship with Jesus Christ.
I had been to many Christian events and churches, but no one ever bothered to make sure I was a believer.
Let’s look at the foundations to effective and responsible evangelism.
Maximum Influence
Matt 5:13-
When Jesus lived and walked on earth, he could not be ignored.
He and His ministry were visible, relevant and people could not ignore him because His ministry changed lives.
In this passage, Jesus tells us that neither his message of hope and love nor us, his people should be able to be ignored.
If we are living as salt and light we will not be ignored.
Salt & Light have many qualities that we need to exhibit in society.
What are some of the qualities of Salt?
Salt provides traction on slippery roads.
Just like salt, we need to provide moral traction in the many issues we face today.
Salt also provides flavor for food.
If it were not for salt, most of us would be thinner than we are because salt is what makes food good.
We are the flavor for Christ because we are who people will see and associate with Christ.
Salt also makes people thirsty.
If you don’t believe this, eat a bag of chips and see.
We should live our live in such a way that people are drawn to us.
When I gave my life to Christ, I didn’t do it to escape hell or go to heaven.
I gave my life to Christ because I wanted in my life what Jon had in his life – the peace and joy of the Lord.
What are some of the qualities of light?.
We should shed light on the dark places.
Light chases away darkness.
Most people don’t want to commit crime in the broad day light, they do it in the dark.
My job is to light the way to Jesus.
When we live like Salt and light, we will not be able to be ignored.
Unfortunately, the church today has become irrelevant to society and we are not even consulted when moral or ethical decisions need to be made.
Like salt, we are to penetrate every aspect of society and create a thirst for Christ and light the way to Him.
Maximum Influence is simply finding the fastest way to influence the most people the most effectively.
The principle of Maximum Influence includes the following three aspects: Mass Exposure to the Gospel; Going for Strategic People and getting the Gospel to diverse people groups.
Mass Exposure
Mass Exposure to the Gospel involves presenting the gospel to large numbers of people at the same time.
Peter and Paul preached to large crowds in the New Testament Days and saw 5,000 give their lives to Christ in one afternoon.
For over 60 years, Billy Graham has preached to large Stadiums full of people and seen millions of people give their lives to Jesus Christ.
Today, Franklin Graham is using technology to do mass presentations of the Gospel to people in countries where crusades are not allowed.
TV pastors like Joel Osteen reach thousands each week through their televised church services.
Over the years in youth evangelism, we did a lot of different Mass Exposure events.
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