EVANGELISM-COMMANDED

 

 

 

We are to evangelize, not because it is easy, not because we may be successful, but because Christ has called us. He is our Lord. We have no other choice, but to obey him.

 

Leighton Ford

Quoted by Curtis C. Thomas, Practical Wisdom for Pastors, Crossway Books, 2001, p. 176.

 

 

While it is true that God gifts some for ministry as evangelists, He calls all believers to be His witnesses and provides them with both the power to witness and a powerful message. Every evangelist is called to be a witness, but only a few witnesses are called to the vocational ministry of an evangelist. Just as each Christian, regardless of spiritual gift or ministry, is to love others, so each believer is to evangelize whether or not his or her gift is that of evangelist.

 

Donald Whitney

Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, 1991, p. 101, Used by permission of NavPress – www.navpress.com. All rights reserved.  For more information please see the website www.BiblicalSpirituality.org.

 

 

The Bible says in I Corinthians 1:21 that “God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.” Often it is the message of the Cross lived and demonstrated that God uses to open a heart to the gospel, but it is the message of the Cross proclaimed (by word or page) through which the power of God saves those who believe its content. No matter how well we live the gospel (and we must live it well, else we hinder its reception), sooner or later we must communicate the content of the gospel before a person can become a disciple of Jesus.

 

Donald Whitney

Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, 1991, p. 111, Used by permission of NavPress – www.navpress.com. All rights reserved.  For more information please see the website www.BiblicalSpirituality.org.

 

 

You are a Christian because somebody cared. Now it's your turn.

 

Warren Wiersbe

 

 

The saints are to bear a threefold testimony to, and for Christ and His truths: Breath-testimony, Life-testimony, and Blood-testimony.

 

Vavasor Powell

A Puritan Golden Treasury, compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 310.