Comments on: 5 Things I Learned By Being the World’s Worst Evangelist

By: Ravi Daniel

Ravi Daniel — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:23:41 +0000

” Freely you have received, freely give ” (Matthew 10:8)

“And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.”
( Jeremiah 3:15 KJV)

Life in the way of “Jesus Christ”
Hi God bless you dear Friends
Me Ravi Daniel from Faisalabad Pakistan .
Dear brothers we have a big security team in Pakistan and my Father is a
In-charge of security team .
We Invite you that you come in Pakistan city Faisalabad and organized your crusade and all your activity about life in â€œJesus Christâ€ .Give chance see our work in Pakistan.
And we provide all type of security and all type of things .
We are waiting your reply.
Jesus give you a way Please pick a way and work in Jesus Christ.
Thanks
God help you every time
Pakistan needs Jesus and it was among the Christian that I found air I could breathe and peace that was real.

By: Jimenez

Jimenez — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:04:50 +0000

First of all God Bless you all.
As I am going through some of this comments, some say ” people get mad when they are told they are going to hell.” This is what many “christians” are afraid of doing, telling the truth.
Hell is real and people are just sugarcoating everything and keeping it lovely, we are giving people what they want to hear not what they should hear. Jesus told us to go out to the nations and preach the gospel, he came to help the sinners not the rightous ones. The one’s in the alley ways shooting up drugs, the ones coming in/out the night clubs, homeless. These are the lost souls, that need to hear about Jesus Christ & Salvation. People who are hurting need that person who is brave and will go out and preach the good news to those who are in need. Is not about trying to convert somebody right away or shoving your beliefs down anyone’s throat, it’s about the seed you plant in their lifes. After all you are sharing the Gospel Jesus left for us to share, at the end it is the persons choice to believe, accept, and follow. Jesus is the way, truth & life. ( If we don’t do it who else will? ) Don’t let the enemy convince you that sharing and going out to spread the word of God, or handing out tracts, is “dumb, or a bad way to reach non-believers. Let the Holy Spirit Guide you and Do the will Of the Father always. (JOHN 3:16)God Be With You All.

By: Leroy

Leroy — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:29:00 +0000

I lived in Denver CO for about 10 years, in the 70′s We had members of the (I won’t mention the name) Baptist Church CONSTANTLY trying to get us to attend. They once had a contest where children were encouraged to invite others to attend services. They kept a record of how many each kid invited and at the end of the contest, the winner got to throw a creme pie in the bus driver’s face!
Now THAT’S evangelism!
or maybe
Carnival evangelism?

By: The Cross Current

The Cross Current — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:20:00 +0000

I really appreciate your transparency in this posting, Kevin. I am founder and host of a street-level outreach radio and TV program in Canada called “The Cross Current” and our team also equips churches to be Christ’s witnesses using law/grace evangelism. I was schooled in several US cities under WOTM and it definitely “works” because I believe it’s biblical – and the Bible “works”:). Having met both Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort, it’s been my experience that they are very humble followers of Christ who have simply contemporized the same law/grace witness we see in the ministries of preachers such as Spurgeon, Wesley and Whitfield, and in Scripture. Ray’s teaching and ministry have been a tremendous blessing to me. His reformed emphasis on relying on the Word of God and not pragmatic/gimmicky outreach ideas has revolutionized my own personal life and witness. I had served for many years as a pastor and God convicted me BIG TIME about teaching/preaching sermons and running evangelism but never personally sharing my faith! I, too, would say things like “you need to have a relationship with the person first” or “preaching hell at people doesn’t ‘work’”, but the truth was that I had no idea what I was talking about. A quick read of the book of Acts (our template for Church life and witness) convinced me that Christ is just calling us to be faithful to share the Good News everyday, everywhere, with everyone…family and friends? Yes! Strangers? Yes! Simply “every creature” (Mk. 16:15).

Over the past couple years, our team has shared the Gospel with thousands of people – including family and friends using law/grace. It amazes me every time how you can freely share tough terms like sin, judgment, wrath, and hell as long as you share the biblical Gospel (1 Cor. 15:1-11) in grace and truth. In fact, it’s been our experience with the more intellectual (academic) types, that if we fail to first biblically identify them with Christ’s death on the Cross using these types of terms with palatable illustrations, then they cleverly accuse God of “cosmic child abuse”! Why? Because sharing a message of God’s amazing love apart from their sin God’s awesome wrath just doesn’t make sense!

Anyhow, I would encourage anyone who is reading this to visit our blog at http://www.thecrosscurrent.com/blog to experience more recorded encounters and more praise reports of God’s faithfulness when we simply open His Word and share His Gospel in love, grace, and truth.

PS: Keep sowing and water that seed, bro!

For His Glory,
Cory M.

By: amanda

amanda — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:25:00 +0000

I had a coworker who would call me into his office for cookies in the afternoon. Then one day he called me in and gave me religious tracts instead. Now I know there is an official name for the practice! Geez, I’m living in West Africa and the locals are trying to convert me. The irony!

By: Cory

Cory — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:54:00 +0000

Those kinds of evangelism don’t work and are a waste of time. People get turned off when it’s thrown at them and when they’re duped into it. Instead of walking into a phony club and being curious, they’re gonna be pissed. Tracts are meaningless. If you’re gonna make disciples, do it like Jesus did: by having a relationship with people and living a life acceptable to God. Not by killing trees for dumb tracts or shouting about how people are bad and sinful. Make friends, not enemies.

By: Bluejay

Bluejay — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:18:00 +0000

I have always found it interesting that a nonbeliever is often unwilling to subject themselves to the high standards that they place upon Christians. Should a Christian slip up (which we all do – Jesus told us that we do and his blood sacrifice paid the price so that these “slipups” would not be counted against us), many times they are immediately attacked for not constantly living a perfect life. Jesus told us that nothing we do or how we live can earn us the kingdom of heaven. It is only through Him and through the cross that we are washed of our sins and can enter into God’s presence cleansed of all our sins. If someone truly believes and lets Christ live through him or her, the way they live and the actions they take will speak of goodness of God. However, selfish and sinful people used and still use Christianity as a tool for their personal and worldly gain. To return to my original point, I have met some very wonderful atheists and some very selfish “Christians”. I just ask that everyone be willing to be measured with the same ruler that he or she measures others with. As Jesus said: “Judge not, lest ye be judged.”

By: gibson8or

gibson8or — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:42:00 +0000

The best way to proselytize (no matter what your beliefs) is to live your life honestly according those beliefs. If your message is worth spreading, you can spread it best by your actions and example.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:04:00 +0000

I have been a Baptist my entire life, so I’m quite familiar with “spreading the good news” and all. However, the manner in which people spread the good news seems to be open to interpretation. Good grief, I get a little weirded out when complete strangers walk up to me and start to witness, so I can’t imagine what that experience is like for someone who is not already a believer. I’m concerned that the random, more aggressive styles of witnessing may have the effect of turning people off to Christianity for good.

I agree with some of the other posters that witnessing is more effective when an interpersonal relationship has already been developed, and the other person is at least open to listening to what you have to say. Then, they can choose to accept or reject this. In the end, the friendship should not be conditional on whether they become believers.

Oh, and I can’t stand it when scare tactics are used, especially on kids. I was on the receiving end of one of these lectures on burning in Hell for all eternity when I was about 8-9 years old. Despite having already been “saved” a year or so earlier, this experienced caused me to panic that perhaps I missed a step somewhere in the whole salvation process. Though my parents assured me that it was rather difficult to skip a step, I think I ended up going through the entire process all over again at least a half a dozen times, just to be certain.

I must have missed that Bible story about the time Jesus sat all the little children down and scared the crap out of them.

By: Sarah Marie

Sarah Marie — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:53:00 +0000

This is what I don’t get about witnessing…Jesus didn’t chase people down and guilt or scare them into following him. He preached and people either stopped and listened or they didn’t. And of the people who stopped and listened, they either decided to believe or they didn’t. End of story. It seems to be a case of casting your pearls before swine…which Jesus outright told you not to do.