Let's Get Evangelizing!
Matthew 28:19
"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit."
Jesus has commanded us to make disciples of all nations. There are so many people in this world that are not living for Christ! Straight to the point, these people are going to Hell when they die! We need to be sharing the gospel with these people becuase the last thing I want to know is that someone is in that place forever when they didn't have to be, had they only heard the gospel. Let's set aside our fears and be bold, courageous, and determined to preach Christ, and Him crucified to the unbelieving.
This is something that God has been teaching me this week. I have often been afraid with the fear of man and just plain scared to talk to people about God at many a time. Yet, what is more important? My personal comfort? Or an unbeliever's eternal destination? God, give me courage and help me overcome my fears!!!! I really like this quote that I heard in a sermon the other day. "Courage isn't the absence of fear but the conquering of it!" Even Paul admits that he felt this fear while in Corinth.
1 Corinthians 2:3
"I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling,"
Paul wasn't just somewhat fearful, he had much trembling! Yet he preached the gospel with courage anyway.
Revelation 20:15
"And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire."
It kills me to think that anyone would ever have to go there. Out of sheer compassion, because of our knowledge of the terrible fate of the unsaved, we should be willing to step out of our comfort zones and share the gospel with the unsaved.
Our willingness and obedience in sharing the gospel with the unsaved is a reflection of how much we love God...whether we are willing to obey Him. I pray that we would all experience God in a way that would give us the perfect love for Him that casts out all fear. (1 John 4:18)
Do we have time to build up relationships with people just so we can feel comfortable in sharing the gospel with them? What if the friends with whom we hope to build up a good relationship and share the gospel with die before they completely trust us? What if today was the last time you saw a person before they died? Would you care about not offending them with the truth? I know that if I knew someone was going to die soon in ignorance and unbelief, I would plead with them from the bottom of heart to believe in His name! The people we know aren't garaunteed their next breath! May compassion set our hearts ablaze to reach the lost!
For me it all comes back to fear. In a sermon I listened to this week I was challenged greatly regarding overcoming the fear of man.
For $1000 per person, would you be more zealous to witness to people? I know I would be! Would you be more zealous to witness to people for money then for God? I hate to think that for a $1000 I would have an easier time sharing the gospel with a stranger than I do right now! Could you deal with your fear of man problem for the love of money when you can't deal with it for the love of God?
That's where I was hit right between the eyes this week. If the fear of man, what he will think, say, or do hinders us from sharing with others, are we not fearing man more then Almighty God who commands us to make disciples of these people?
Let's Get Evangelizing! Togethor we can challenge each other in this! Forget about not knowing what to say to people, and listen to the Holy Spirit, as we plead with the lost, that they may come to the Light and escape the eternal lake of fire!
"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit."
Jesus has commanded us to make disciples of all nations. There are so many people in this world that are not living for Christ! Straight to the point, these people are going to Hell when they die! We need to be sharing the gospel with these people becuase the last thing I want to know is that someone is in that place forever when they didn't have to be, had they only heard the gospel. Let's set aside our fears and be bold, courageous, and determined to preach Christ, and Him crucified to the unbelieving.
This is something that God has been teaching me this week. I have often been afraid with the fear of man and just plain scared to talk to people about God at many a time. Yet, what is more important? My personal comfort? Or an unbeliever's eternal destination? God, give me courage and help me overcome my fears!!!! I really like this quote that I heard in a sermon the other day. "Courage isn't the absence of fear but the conquering of it!" Even Paul admits that he felt this fear while in Corinth.
1 Corinthians 2:3
"I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling,"
Paul wasn't just somewhat fearful, he had much trembling! Yet he preached the gospel with courage anyway.
Revelation 20:15
"And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire."
It kills me to think that anyone would ever have to go there. Out of sheer compassion, because of our knowledge of the terrible fate of the unsaved, we should be willing to step out of our comfort zones and share the gospel with the unsaved.
Our willingness and obedience in sharing the gospel with the unsaved is a reflection of how much we love God...whether we are willing to obey Him. I pray that we would all experience God in a way that would give us the perfect love for Him that casts out all fear. (1 John 4:18)
Do we have time to build up relationships with people just so we can feel comfortable in sharing the gospel with them? What if the friends with whom we hope to build up a good relationship and share the gospel with die before they completely trust us? What if today was the last time you saw a person before they died? Would you care about not offending them with the truth? I know that if I knew someone was going to die soon in ignorance and unbelief, I would plead with them from the bottom of heart to believe in His name! The people we know aren't garaunteed their next breath! May compassion set our hearts ablaze to reach the lost!
For me it all comes back to fear. In a sermon I listened to this week I was challenged greatly regarding overcoming the fear of man.
For $1000 per person, would you be more zealous to witness to people? I know I would be! Would you be more zealous to witness to people for money then for God? I hate to think that for a $1000 I would have an easier time sharing the gospel with a stranger than I do right now! Could you deal with your fear of man problem for the love of money when you can't deal with it for the love of God?
That's where I was hit right between the eyes this week. If the fear of man, what he will think, say, or do hinders us from sharing with others, are we not fearing man more then Almighty God who commands us to make disciples of these people?
Let's Get Evangelizing! Togethor we can challenge each other in this! Forget about not knowing what to say to people, and listen to the Holy Spirit, as we plead with the lost, that they may come to the Light and escape the eternal lake of fire!
posted by Joshua at 12:10 AM
6 Comments:
Right on Josh!!
that's powerful and true, yeah I don't even give 15 minutes a week to witnessing. We should all go witnessing together this sunday afternoon or sometime.
Hey I found this cool site today
http://www.pocketpower.org/
herer is a quote from it
As a member, you are invited to dedicate one of your pockets to the Lord, whether a shirt pocket, pants pocket, in your jacket, briefcase or purse. Every morning, place a Gospel in it as you leave your home. Prayerfully look for an opportunity throughout the course of the day to give that Gospel away as a special gift to someone you meet. Members find that more often than not, people are delighted to receive these quality publications.
then they give you like 30 free gospel of John's a month. looks really cool.
Yeah, I'm definitely lacking of my witnessing-to-others time, too! And I like your idea of going to witness to others, David!
BAM. that really hit me too. yikes, it's horrible that i'm already losing stuff that i learned at SEMP so well. thanx josh for kicking me back on track. i wish ;i could go evangilize with you guys...mabey when i get back from camp.
yep, i'm at camp right now and i'm really sick. ya, i have a fever, which really stinks. if you guys could pray for me and that it would go away before tomorrow when a new ;batch of kids come, that would be awsome. apparently it's really hard to spend time with your campers when anything you breath on gets contaminated with kara's sick germs.
ya, but God has been doing some pretty awsome things at camp this week. the other day some girls (they were about 8 or 9 years old) and i were out on the lake canoeing and we were running really late becouse the wind and the waves were really strong and huge and we were trying to paddle against it all. i was kinda frustraighted because the canoe just kept on turning around, and we really needed to get back to camp to go to our next skill. so after stuggling with the waves for a while and getting nowhere, one of the girls announced that we should pray against the waves. so she prayed out loud and when she did the waves and the wind totally died down and we were able to get lback to the camp. it was awsome to see the girls praise God for that and that God totally reveiled himself to those in the boat and made their faith stronger, becouse now they knew that there really WAS a God. ya, so that was pretty cool. but anyway, i should probabley be going becouse this comment is super lhuge and i need sleep. i love and miss you all!
kara faith.
ps. to all you SEMP peeps, does anyone (*cough* Aimee and Bradie *cough*) still have their rist band on from callaway park?....just wondering...
Whoa... that was really powerful Josh! And I think it's awesome how lots of you have been going out and doing street evangelism! That's so awesome to see God working through you guys to spread the Good News to unbelievers! Right on!
Keep it up! And I can't wait to go to SEMP too! I've seen such a godly change in lots of you! Like that song "Tell the World" oh wait Aimee already mentioned that... well it's a great song and very true! So right on to all of you who went to SEMP and to those who are doing the street evaneglism downtown!
AMEN AMEN AMEN.
I admire you all in so many ways.
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