EVANGELISM

By Irene McGough

The first thing we must show to peoplewhile evangelising is the Father's heartof God

People have heard the hell fire preaching, often preachedwithout love or mercy for many a year but they need to knowabout the God who wants to heal their whole person makingthem whole and not wanting them to go to that lost eternity inhell. Folks need to know the Father's heart of God they need toknow that he cares, wants to heal them is interested in their needs at the present moment, and he wants to give them life inall it's fullness. We need to introduce folk out there to our God,some have heard so much about the law and are stuck intraditions of fear, but they don't know Jesus. IT'S TIME FOR US TO INTRODUCE THEM TO OUR BEST FRIEND. We preach repentance but firstly we want people to know that Godloves them. True conversion means a change of direction, aheart being changed, for we are called to go and make disciples,to have people turn their lives over to Jesus.We should be able to speak to the beggar on the street, thedrug addict, the prostitute the same way we talk to business menand women, for they are all in need of our Saviour.

PREPARATION FOR GOING OUT

Preparation of our own hearts is so important prior to going out,we need to spend time with Jesus, we need to submit to Hisauthority and listen to the Spirit's prompting. We need to confessour sins and ask the Lord to purify us also if we are going to beeffective while evangelizing. We should ask the Lord to help ussee people as He sees them.

REMEMBER

It is the Holy Spirit who convicts, show the people out therethat you really care.To reach the world with the gospel it requires that we see all people as God sees them as people whom He loves first andforemost and longs for them to come into relationship with Him- John 3:16— But also recognizing their need as a desperate onefor all who do not know Jesus are sinners in need of a Saviour.1) by natureRom 3:10 As it is written:"There is none righteous, no, not one;2) by choiceRom 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,3) by practice.Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God iseternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.Casual attitudes and blinded minds have lured some believers inChrist to overlook the desperate state of the lost: “The wages of sin is death”. Universalism or ultimate reconciliation are termsdescribing the erroneous belief that some who profess to knowChrist have, eventually even the eternally lost will be granted areprieve from eternal judgment. But Paul said, “We judge thus;that if One died for all, then all died” 2 Corinthians 5:14.Because he saw the lost as God sees them, he said God’s love“constrained” him to world evangelism. The nations—all people — need the gospel desperately and are lost without it. Lookingcarefully, into the Word of God will help us capture and retain