Plan to Stop Not Evangelizing Part 4

Accept. We have to accept that this is our job... let's just acknowledge that sometimes we don't evangelize because we think it's not our job. It's the job of preachers, we think, or someone else who is trained and paid for it. But if we are going to evangelize, we have to realize and admit how we've been dodging our duty and adjust ourselves to accept responsibility of evangelism. We might be the closest Christians to a particular unbeliever. Maybe that person has a Christian aunt, friend, or employee who has been praying for him. Maybe we are the answer to their prayers. We must accept, we may accept, we get to accept the wonderful role that God has for us as evangelists in others lives! -Mark Dever (The Gospel & Personal Evangelism)

An Evengelistic Option for Halloween

Although not everyone will have a clear conscience and different convictions about Halloween...this was passed along by someone that I would respect....

http://betweenthetimes.com/2010/09/28/why-all-good-christians-should-celebrate-halloween/

Love the Lost

A second area of growth in love is love for the lost. A wealthy young man once came to Jesus and asked what he must do to inherit eternal life. The young man assumed he was in fairly good standing because he had tried to keep the Ten Commandments. But after he asserted this, "Jesus looking at him," reports Mark 10:21, "loved him, and said to him, 'One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me'" (emphasis added). In showing love to this man, Jesus did not compromise His message. He made it unmistakable that to have eternal life the man must forsake his god (that is, his possessions) and put Christ first. Although there is no indication that the man became Jesus' disciple, Jesus loved him nonetheless. The more we are like Jesus, the more we manifest the fruit of the Spirit and the more loving we will be to everyone, including those who are cold to the things of God. Jesus said we are even to love our enemies, and not just those who love us (Luke 6:27,32). - Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health by Donald S. Whitney

Plan to Stop Not Evangelizing Part 3

Be Clear. When you share the gospel, think carefully about the language you use. One of the best conversations I can remember about evangelism was with a secular Jewish friend of mine. I was to give talks soon on a college campus about evangelism, and I decided to ask my friend about evangelism... I learned that in my previous conversations with him I had taken the meaning of words for granted. "God", "prayer", "heaven", "good", "moral", "judge", and "sin" are all words that I realized I had not done a good job defining. If I had simply gone through a quick, persuasive sales presentation and gotten him to say "yes!" he would have been saying yes to much that he didn't understand. We need to be both engaging and clear when we present the gospel.
-Mark Dever (The Gospel & Personal Evangelism)

John Piper shares his struggles with evangelsim

Check out this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCqQKrw-nrg&feature=player_embedded

Thanks Tracy for the link!

Plan to Stop Not Evangelizing Part 2

Use the Bible. The Bible is not only for public preaching and private devotionals. It can be used in evangelizing. An interesting example of this...is found in Acts 8, when Philip came to the Ethiopian official. The official was reading Isaiah 53, a famous prophesy about the Messiah. Philip, as it says in Acts 8:35, "began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus." The Bible is God's Word and is inspired by God's Spirit. God's message can go out not just through your words and mine, but through his own inspired words. And we can know that he will take a special delight in showing the power of his Word as he uses it in conversions. -Mark Dever (The Gospel & Personal Evangelism)


Note: We will be learning to share our faith with the Bible at the upcoming Launch training this Saturday morning!

FCA Outreach Events

See You at the Pole – Wednesday, September 22^nd – students, faculty, and the community gather around their local school flagpole to pray for their school, communities, churches, and our national. Typically this event starts at 7am. I would like to encourage you all to join with the students and PRAY! You will be inspired and encouraged. For more information, visit: www.syatp.org .

Fields of Faith – Wednesday, October 27^th , 7:00-8:30pm – Harford Tech High School Football Stadium. This is an evening where students gather to encourage each other in their faith. Come and hear great student testimonies and worship – all under the lights. For more information or to start a Fields of Faith for your school/community, go to www.fieldsoffaith.org .