In my daily living, navigating evangelism allows me to make sense of what I have learned and experienced about God's love through Jesus Christ.@evangelismonlin
@EvangelismOnlin “No individual is called to shoulder the entire process of meeting, sharing, inviting, and forming another person in the Christian faith.”
@iki_eric This is especially true for leaders. The more leaders in a congregation model the practice of personal evangelism, the more the people in the congregation will recognize the importance of sharing their faith with others.
@ilhan_you There is no "best" practice. There are only practices that are 1) authentic to your experience of Christ's goodness, 2) authentic to the Christian Tradition, 3) meaningful to the context in which you evangelize. If it meets these requirements, whatever you say or do is best.
@Mymanmonty That's the key issue. We are such a technological culture that we expect that we have to be able to understand and control everything we do. The logic of the gospel requires us to act with the expectation that we are participating in something God is doing that we don't control.
@Mymanmonty This is a hard truth. The scandal of the gospel is that Jesus loves and seeks to redeem all people, even the ones we dislike. We may not like everyone, but we need to recognize and respect the value God places on all people.
@RudyFreese Yes! If we just talk and act without being a sign that points people to God's transforming presence, then our words and deeds are have no power.
"Many Christians are happy living in their "goldfish bowls" as long as someone changes the water and feeds them daily!" Rev. Robert Roberts @EvangelismOnlin
"I don't mind preaching, praying, and doing things to win souls for Christ, but every now and then I want God to do the miraculous! just don't want to feel like I'm a car salesman selling the Gospel!" @EvangelismOnlin
"The hardest thing to get some Christians to do is to "stretch themselves." They're good for cooking dishes or baking cakes, but getting them to feed those dishes to the public is like pulling teeth!" @EvangelismOnlin
People in my church are good at Worship as a way of loving God, But when it comes to having mercy and wanting justice for our neighbors, "it depends". We tell people to "come as you are" until they show up and we see "who they are!" @EvangelismOnlin
"Which practice is least emphasized in your congregation"? Like the saints who had prayed for the release of Apostle Peter in Acts 12, many of us are guilty of going through the motions without the expectation that God will show up and show out! @EvangelismOnlin
@EvangelismOnlin "Which practice (word, deed, or sign) is most emphasized in your congregation?" The overwhelming response of our seminary group at GETS was deeds. Jesus said, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."