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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This has to be one of the best books about Evangelism I've read.
It is the perfect guide for a newbie or anyone wanting to preach the Gospel and not feel confrontational.
It covers every aspect of the different kinds of people we meet, e.g., Atheists, Non-believers, Muslims, etc.
I recommend this book to anyone who wants to evangelize without fear.
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Evangelism - Rev. Norman Holmes
EVANGELISM
How to lead people to Christ
by Norman Holmes
Evangelism – How to lead people to Christ
© 2020 Norman Holmes
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Chapter 1 – Evangelism Explained
Evangelism is the communication of the Gospel message. The word evangelism
comes from the Greek noun euaggelion
which means the gospel
or good news.
The communication of the message of Christ’s salvation gives us the word evangelism.
The work of evangelism is not to be confined to a small group of ministers and church workers. You don’t need a special call or personal revelation from God to get involved in evangelism- actually, if you are a born-again Christian, you are already called to evangelism!
Consider what the Apostle Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians: Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God,
-2 Cor.5:17-20 NIV.
Here we read that everyone who is in Christ- everyone who has been reconciled to God- has been given the ministry of reconciling others to God. We are ALL called to be ambassadors of the Gospel! Every Christian will not be a preacher or an evangelist, but we are all called to give to others what we have been given- the gospel invitation to salvation.
We do not need to be a skilled speaker or conversationalist to spread the Gospel. If we have received eternal life through the salvation of Christ, we can, each in our own way, point others towards receiving the same gift from God. We can pass it along- pass it forward- and seek to scatter ideas and words that will be like seeds that can grow up to become a fruitful harvest.
One of the most famous stories in Church history of how the Lord brought a sinner to see his need of salvation was in the life of John Wesley, who later became a revivalist and the founder of the Methodist churches. As a young man he was already an ordained minister of the Anglican Church, although he had not yet obtained a personal experience of salvation by faith in Christ. For years he had felt that he was a Christian seeking to serve God, yet his empty heart was exposed to himself during a dangerous storm on the high seas while he was on a missionary journey to the American colony of Georgia. When their ship was close to sinking, a group of born-again Moravian Christians on board were singing hymns, fully peaceful in the face of death. John Wesley realized that he was afraid of dying and did not have the fruit of a true Christian faith like these Moravians had. This experience caused him to return to England with the confession that he had gone to America to convert others, but he returned to England needing to first be converted himself! That led him to attend a Moravian Bible study in London where he did find his heart strangely warmed
by the experience of salvation. But what was it that first caused his eyes to become opened to his personal need for a Savior? It was the singing of a group of Christians, not their preaching or their evangelistic methods. Whatever our giftings and talents- or whatever our lack of them may be- we can each be used of God to help lead others to Christ!
We Have a Responsibility
Not only do we all have the privilege of sharing the Gospel with others, we also need to realize that we have each been given a solemn responsibility to spread the Gospel. Consider what Proverbs tells us: Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say,
But we knew nothing about this, does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay each person according to what he has done?
-Prov.24:11-12.
We should be seeking to rescue those who are heading towards death and damnation- and our praying for them and sharing the gospel offers the only remedy for their condition.
Our Lord Jesus told us, You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven,
Mt.5:13-16. We all have the opportunity to let the light of Christ shine through our lives, and be salty
Christians that make others thirst after God. Yet we also have the responsibility to not hide our Christian witness or be flavorless.
So in this book we are going to examine how each of us can become effective in sharing our faith. We can each, according to our own unique giftings and abilities, seek to evangelize and lead people to Christ and eternal life. The Lord Jesus said that heaven rejoices when a lost soul returns to God- and we can bring great joy to lost souls, and even to heaven, if we will learn to become effective in evangelism.
Chapter 2 – What Do We Share?
In evangelism, there are basically two things that we share: #1 the Gospel in the Bible, and #2 our own testimony. This can also be described as #1 the Word of God written in the Scriptures, and #2 the Word of God personally alive in our own life.
When we share #1- the Gospel (or, good news
) from the Bible, we are