How to Evangelize in today's world

As a Christian I know that I'm called to lead others to Jesus. I do this by preaching the Gospel with hope of seeing others come to the Lord and into God's family. I believe people today make evangelism more complicated than it truly is. For a while I believed the lie that in order to do this I had to have a big plan and go somewhere far to save people. I use to think that if the Church didn't send me out into the streets then maybe I needed to go somewhere else.

One day I stepped outside of my house and got this revelation that changed the way I saw evangelism forever. I realized that the moment I left my house in the morning people would be walking and driving pass me by the hundreds every minute of the day. I remember telling myself  "; Wow, how far do I have to go to reach a soul? They are all around me". I continued by looking at my Facebook account on my phone and telling myself "; Man, With a touch of a finger I can tell someone in Japan right now about Christ".

Be a Good Samaritan

That day I picked up my Bible and I started to pray for God to show me more about what true Evangelism looked like. I came upon the story of the Good Samaritan. In this story, Jesus was talking about a man who was on his way from Jerusalem to Jericho when two robbers attacked him and left him for dead. As the man was on the ground two people who should have helped him left him there and went on with their day but the Good Samaritan (Jesus) stops and helps the man. He bandaged his wounds, picked him up, placed the man on his donkey and took him to an Inn. A safe place.

As soon as I read this I thought of the Church and how evangelism didn't end with us telling the sinners about the doctor, it proceeded with us inviting them and bringing them into the hospital.

What breaks my heart is that we take pride in just telling people about the Lord, not knowing that most of these people just go right back to the places the enemy had them trapped in.

To my surprise as I read more about the Good Samaritan, I learned that after He brought the Man to the Inn, He spent the night with him. The next morning He went up to the innkeeper (you and me) the servants of God's House and said this "Look after him and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.” WOW! That told me that God cares about you and me as we care and serve others in the Church and even promises to pay us back if the weight of it was more than we expected.

If you're reading this, I want to remind you that out there in the real world people will find a family and a place. For some, that family could be a gang and that place could be a Bar or a nightclub. If we tell people about Jesus but forget to tell them about the Church and God's family we will end up doing the exact same thing those two people did to the man who got robbed in Jericho, Leaving him for dead in his sins with nowhere to go.

Go out and spread the Good News

Want to be an evangelist in today's world? Go and preach the Gospel and don't believe the lie that inviting people to Church isn't in God's plan. Even if they live on the other side of the world it's ok to encourage them to find a Church family. Jesus Himself came down like the Good Samaritan came down to rescue the lowest of the low.

Think of this, that for three years during his ministry Jesus could have done it all alone, Instead He invited people like you and me, people who at one point were robbed and beat up by the enemy, but God saw us and brought us to a safe place, His House, so that we can continue His mission and His Legacy.

"To be a good evangelist is to be a Good Samaritan"

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