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Introduction
Closing in on Easter, just two weeks away.
How’s it coming with praying for your one?
Keep it up
Prayerfully, we’ll see God move and answer our prayers for them to come to church on Easter.
We’ve been in a series entitled “Who’s Your One?”
The goal of the series was to show us, and I include myself, the importance of one person praying for another to bring them to church and the gospel.
Thus far we have learned that our duty is to share the gospel with those we know out of obedience or to help them avoid hell.
Think back to when you accepted Jesus as your Savior, where was that?
Sparkman, AR for me.
Who led you to Christ?
Ruffin Snow in granddaddy’s living room.
I attending a revival when I felt God tugging on my heart for me to make that commitment to Christ.
Why was I at the revival?
Because my mother took me.
She invited me or drug me along with her and my grandmother.
I would say that each of us has someone we can look to that invited us to say yes to Jesus.
It may have a family member that took you to church
Or someone shared the gospel and invited you to say yes to Jesus.
For some, you may have someone on TV who invited you to say yes to Jesus.
The bottom line someone invited you.
In a study from 2019, in answering the question “Who led you to Christ?”
67% said someone they knew personally - family, friend, neighbor, or colleague.
The rest said a pastor, worship service, small group, or an event.
I would go as far to say that for the “rest” someone had to invite them most likely
Why Are We Silent?
Most Americans are interested in conversations about Christianity, but few Christians seem willing to talk about their faith, according to a recent Evangelism Explosion study conducted by Lifeway Research.
Let me share with you 3 reasons Christians are silent.
Christians stay silent because of a desire to be friendly.
Evangelism is a loving act of telling someone why you have hope in a broken world.
It’s talking about something (or someone) important to you.
However, for too many, evangelism conjures a negative image; it feels unkind.
We have no problem talking about our kids, grandkids, new cars, or even a television series we’re watching.
But when it comes to talking about Jesus and the difference our faith makes in our lives, we freeze.
We’ve accepted the idea that evangelism is unfriendly, so we remain silent.
Research shows 51% of Americans say they’re curious and wanted to know why faith is important to others.
Evangelism practiced in love and with a winsome personality would be a welcome part of most conversations and friendships.
Christians stay silent because of fear.
It’s human nature to avoid uncomfortable things.
In fact, it keeps us alive.
For many, evangelism is a frightening prospect.
Three forms of fear
Fear of failure.
One pollster found, “Fear of failure is the number one reason people don’t set goals or try new things.”
An article in the LA Times noted fear of failure plagues 31% of adults.
This is greater than the fear of spiders (30%), being home alone (9%), or even ghosts (15%).
Instinctively, we know most of our conversations about Jesus will not end with someone confessing faith in Christ.
If we define a successful evangelistic conversation as one that ends in new birth, we’re setting ourselves up for failure, something most of us would rather avoid.
What if we understood that successful evangelism is a cooperative effort with multiple people and multiple encounters—sowing and watering, then reaping when God gives the growth?
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“I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.
So, then, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor” (CSB). 1 Corinthians 3:6-8
With this new definition, failure is almost impossible.
Fear of not knowing enough.
We usually couch this fear in a sentence like, “I am afraid someone will ask me a question I don’t know the answer to.”
This is a legitimate concern.
The Bible is a big book, and there are so many complicated theological and ethical questions that no one can really know it all.
However, we can’t let this fear keep us silent.
According to Romans 1, it’s the gospel, not our well-thought-out answers, that is God’s power for salvation.
“I don’t know,” is an acceptable answer.
In fact, it’s a great answer because it communicates honesty and provides a reason for a follow-up conversation when you find the answer.
Unanswered questions rarely, if ever, keep someone from becoming a Christian.
After all, you’re a Christian, and not knowing the answer didn’t stop you from trusting Christ.
Fear of Saying the Wrong Thing.
Have you ever gave someone the wrong directions by mistake?
What a terrible reality to discover you’ve given someone bad directions.
However, as with the other fears, this one is often exaggerated in our minds.
I’m not suggesting that content is not important in evangelism.
However, God uses our efforts to accomplish his purposes.
Christians stay silent because of a tendency toward forgetfulness.
Possibly the number one reason Christians don’t talk about Jesus is we’re just too busy or too distracted to remember to do so.
A 2019 study from Lifeway Research discovered 55% of those who attend church at least monthly say they haven’t shared Christ with anyone in the past six months.
Although nearly the same percentage (56%) say they pray for opportunities to share at least once a week.
And 23% say they pray daily for evangelistic opportunities.
What’s happening here?
My guess–through personal experience–is most of these folks started their day with good intentions, but then, as events unfolded, they simply forgot.
What can you do to remember to share Christ?
Make a list of names and pray specifically for them.
What’s the Answer: Be An Andrew!
Peter’s brother, Andrew, is the least known of the four disciples in the inner circle.
Andrew ordinarily is left very much in the background.
We learn he was used by our Lord to touch one who touched thousands.
One pastor referred to Andrew as the inviter, or I see him as the bringer or introducer.
Had Andrew never been born, the New Testament could have changed significantly.
Peter may have never been saved.
Someone else would have preached the famous Pentecost sermon.
We would have to eliminate two books of the New Testament, 1 and 2 Peter.
Only heaven knows what else would have been left out of the Bible and church history.
Andrew was the first of all the disciples to be called (John 1:35-40).
His eagerness to follow Christ, combined with his zeal for introducing others to Christ, fairly typifies Andrew’s character.
Think: Peter, James, John and Andrew.
Certainly, Andrew was the least conspicuous.
Scripture doesn’t tell us a lot about him.
He appears in the New Testament only nine times and most references simply mention him in passing.
Andrew lived his life in the shadows of his better-known brother, Peter.
He is even mentioned in the text as Simon Peter’s brother.
However, lest we forget, Andrew introduced Peter to Jesus.
Andrew shows that he had the right heart for effective ministry in the background.
Andrew’s name means manly.
He was a strong fisherman.
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