Out of all the things we can learn in this world, sharing the gospel is the #1 thing we need to learn the most because there is so much at stake. Every time we share the gospel with a person, we are giving them the option to live and not to die. We are giving them the option to know Jesus and to know the love that God has for them.
Sharing the gospel with friends, family and strangers sounds like the most daunting task in the entire world. And yet, God has called us to get more comfortable with it than anything else we do every day.
The gospel has changed millions of lives of people who have responded to its message. It claims to be the exclusive and only way to God and has given offense to those in a pluralistic mindset.
We do not share the gospel from an attitude of spiritual pride or a position of superiority. We confront sin when needed. We counter beliefs that are incompatible with the Bible.
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5 Ways to Share the GospelFill Your Heart with Love for Others. Strive to emulate the love of Christ and have compassion for others. ... Strive to Walk the Path of Discipleship. As your love for God and His children deepens, so does your commitment to follow Jesus Christ. ... Trust the Lord to Work His Miracles.
0:392:42What is the best way to share the gospel with total strangers?YouTubeStart of suggested clipEnd of suggested clipWhen I meet someone for the first time I explore their life I do it in two ways first by observingMoreWhen I meet someone for the first time I explore their life I do it in two ways first by observing what can I tell about this person by just looking at them or looking at their surroundings.
0:251:49How to Share the Gospel in 90 Seconds - YouTubeYouTubeStart of suggested clipEnd of suggested clipGod can rightly deal with us by giving us his wrath and ultimately separating us from him forever.MoreGod can rightly deal with us by giving us his wrath and ultimately separating us from him forever. But he didn't leave us to our own devices.
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How to Spread the Word of God1 Carry your Bible with you everywhere.2 Wear clothing or jewelry that advertises your faith.3 Be open about your faith.4 Share faith-based movies, music, and books with your friends.5 Share your salvation story with others.6 Post verses on social media.7 Hand out Bibles to others.More items...
As we share testimony of the gospel by the Spirit, those who are willing to hear will receive sufficient witness to begin to have faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement. That faith will give them the will to repent.
Romans 3:23 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…”. Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”. Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in [a] Christ Jesus our Lord.”.
Billy Graham’s gospel presentation uses the cross as a bridge between us and God. Another simple presentation of the gospel I soon discovered and used for years was the Bridge Illustration and One Verse Evangelism, developed by the Navigators.
Sonlife had also developed a simple gospel booklet, Knowing God Personally, which incorporates the bridge illustration. Over one million people have been introduced to the gospel message through this simple tool, which is still available through our webstore.
Helpful Tips for sharing the gospel 1 Our testimony speaks louder than our words. Be a good example. 2 Pray for those that you will share the gospel with. 3 Be led by The Spirit and pay attention to God’s voice. The stronger your relationship with God is, the easier it is to hear His voice. 4 Walk in love, you are a reflection of God’s love to the world. 5 Keep it simple and easy for people to understand. 6 Don’t be pushy, you are just sowing a seed. It is The Holy Spirit’s job to grow that seed. 7 If the person accepts Jesus as His love and savior try to connect him or her to a local church. Remember, he/she is just a newborn Christian and will need help in order to grow. 8 Don’t get into arguments. Sometimes people’s hearts are hardened and they won’t receive the good news of the gospel. 9 Feel free to share your testimony if time permits it. 10 Do not forget to tell that person how much God loves him/her. Make sure he/she understands that God’s love is unconditional.
Out of all the things we can learn in this world, sharing the gospel is the #1 thing we need to learn the most because there is so much at stake. Every time we share the gospel with a person, we are giving them the option to live and not to die. We are giving them the option to know Jesus and to know the love that God has for them.
If the person accepts Jesus as His love and savior try to connect him or her to a local church. Remember, he/she is just a newborn Christian and will need help in order to grow. Don’t get into arguments. Sometimes people’s hearts are hardened and they won’t receive the good news of the gospel.
If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. Romans 10: 9-10.
That gift makes us clean, makes us righteous, forgiven and allows us to be able to have a close relationship with our Father and access everything that He has for us. This is the gift of salvation.
He is a holy Father that sees all things, even what is in our hearts. (Genesis 1:27) Sin: When sin came into the world it created a gap that separated us from God. No longer we were able to come in the presence of our Father.
He gave up His most beloved treasure, Jesus to die for us instead. Jesus, The Son of God, became a man so that He can suffer and die and pay the price that we were supposed to pay. After 3 days, He rose from the dead, defeated sin and death and is now sitting right next to The Father.
In part, this means that we treat others with gentleness and respect, no matter what group they identify with. Sharing the gospel is an act of compassion. Sharing the gospel is not about finding areas of dissimilarity.
The way of forgiveness and eternal life is only through Jesus— this is true for every human being ( John 14:6; Acts 4:12 ). We need not think of one another in terms of a group classification. Our duty in life is to fulfill the Great Commission. Christians are called to share the gospel, the good news of Jesus, with everyone ( Luke 24:47 ).
We usually don’t need to catalog a person’s sins, or even single one out, to share the fact that Christ died for sinners. Trying to “clean up one’s act” or stop a specific sin will not grant anyone eternal life.
And it’s true that certain aspects of the gospel message may resonate more deeply with one group over another—and certain groups may have a particular resistance to receiving the gospel—but the gospel message is universal. Every human being is made in God’s image ( Genesis 1:27 ).
1. The Truth: God. We were created by God, who is in control of everything. He created us to love, serve and glorify Him. Our all-powerful, holy God is in control of all of His creation. (Genesis 1:1) He created us.
We don’t know when we will be taken off this earth. So, we need to view sharing the gospel as urgent as yelling before someone steps out into traffic. Their eternal life is at stake.
It is our response to have faith in Christ, repent for our sins and to seek God and He will transform our lives. We are to trust and believe in Christ that He forgives sins. We have faith that we are going to heaven, that God has the power to transform our lives to glorify Him. (Romans 12:1; Titus 3:4-7). Our new life will last an eternity.
Sharing will give the person you’re sharing it with a chance to make a decision. The power of the gospel can transform them. The message of Jesus has the power to fill them with joy, save them and save others! The person you share with may go on to share with others! So, here’s the 4 simple truths to share!
Jesus wiped away our sins with his death. (John 1:29; Hebrews 9:27-28) Even when we were still sinners, Jesus died for our sins because God is full of grace and love.
The power of the gospel has the power to change everything. Sharing the gospel with someone can fill you up! Think about what the gospel has done, in your life…. For me, it has released me from sin and the guilt that holds me back from changing. Sharing will give the person you’re sharing it with a chance to make a decision.
Since God is just and holy, sin must be punished. So, God sent Jesus because God loves us. Praying daily that God will give you the yearning to share the gospel and also the courage. We need God’s help because it isn’t something we do every day, at this point.
The Gospel Angel. One of the most amazing methods God will use to share the Gospel is by sending out the Gospel Angel. Revelation 14:6-7 describes how close to the end of the Tribulation a special angel will be sent on a crucial mission to circumnavigate the world. The Gospel Angel will share with every person alive the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Surely, the Antichrist will desperately attempt to purge the Gospel off of the Internet because he wants the world to worship him alone. Especially at the mid-point of the Tribulation and on, the False Prophet will make Antichrist/Satan worship mandatory. Before the Bible apps are purged, there will be time for people to encounter the Gospel.
The signs of the times indicate that we are on the threshold of the Tribulation — a time of unparalleled carnage that will befall the earth. The world will plunge into a period of time the Bible describes as the most horrific in all of human history. People are going to accept Jesus as Savior during the Tribulation, ...
The Wrath of God. Dr. Reagan: The final method God will use to force people on their knees to repent of their sins is by His own wrath. Sufferings and trials often cause people to seek the Lord and come to repentance.
But, as the evil residents of the world party over the televised images of their corpses left to decay in the streets of Jerusalem, 3.5 days later God will miraculously resurrect them from the dead and rapture them up to Heaven.
Bibles will be lying all over the place! In fact, it’s a good idea to add to the front of your Bible some kind of message about what people must do to become saved. I hope that every Christian will take the time to write the Gospel message in the front of their Bibles.
Revelation 11 explains that God will place during the first half those who will be the called the Two Witnesses. They are two Jewish men who will preach for 3.5 years from Jerusalem. The truth they are preaching about God will cause ...
2) They went through suffering together. Paul and Silas went through severe persecution in Philippi. Acts 16: 22-24 – “The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten with rods.
There are several ways Paul would have thought of the Philippians as partners. 1) They were joined in Christ. Acts 16 tells of how Paul and Silas went to Philippi and evangelized there. Lydia came to faith and also a jailer and his household, and so a fledgling church was born.
Paul is saying: sow generously with God and you reap generously from God.
The fourth chapter of Paul’s letter to the Philippians is full of appreciation for financial gifts in support of his work.
Because they have been his partners in the work of God. When Paul calls them his ‘partners’ he uses the Greek word koinōnia. It appears nineteen times in the New Testament for a range of meanings centered around fellowship, joining together, and, of course, partnership.
Paul was the evangelist called to travel the Mediterranean area with the good news; the Philippians made that possible with their finance. At Northern Seminary we have a massively tall step ladder. It’s ideal for a worker to get up to the highest lights in our tallest hall.
God would take care of them. God never disappoints. And Paul saw the Philippians as partners with him in the gospel but he also saw the deeper truth, that they were partners with God. And as they lived for God and served God, God would bless them and keep them safe for all eternity.
The gospel has changed millions of lives of people who have responded to its message. It claims to be the exclusive and only way to God and has given offense to those in a pluralistic mindset. Jesus himself said in John 14:6, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
The bad news, however, is that people are sinners and separated from God by sin. Paul states, “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” ( Rom 3:23) . . . “and the payoff of sin is death” ( Rom 6:23 ).
Christian apologist Josh McDowell once said: “The resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the most wicked, vicious, heartless hoaxes ever foisted upon the minds of men and women, or it is the most fantastic fact of history.” 2 Since the advent of Jesus Christ men and women have been willing to die for the gospel’s truth. It started with the 12 men who knew Jesus best, the disciples who saw the resurrected Lord and risked and gave their lives for the truth of this fact. The gospel has changed millions of lives of people who have responded to its message. It claims to be the exclusive and only way to God and has given offense to those in a pluralistic mindset. Jesus himself said in John 14:6, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Peter echoed this in Acts 4:11-12, “This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, . . . And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved.” 3
The first piece of good news is that God loves you and has a plan and purpose for your life. Jesus stated, “For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life” ( John 3:16 ). Someone once well said that people matter to God. People are valuable in his sight. But how valuable are they? As this verse states, they are valuable enough to give something valuable. God gave his one and only Son so that we might have eternal life. For parents, how valuable would something have to be for you to turn over the life of one of your children?
In this case God hits the gavel and says, “Righteous” based on the penalty paid by Christ. Redemption in essence means to purchase with a price (Greek apolutrosis). In the New Testament it is the price that Jesus paid by his blood to rescue us from the penalty of sin and make us as owned by God.
Spiritual death separates people from God eternally in a fiery place of punishment. The Bible refers to this as the second death or the lake of fire ( Rev 20 ). One cannot really relate to the good news until one understands the bad news.
The apostle John states that it is possible for a believer to have assurance of salvation. He writes: “And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life.
Circle the word “wages” and ask, “How would you feel if your boss refused to pay you the wages that were due to you?” The answer, of course, is that he would want justice—in this case, the wages he had worked for. Deep down, we all know that it is only right that we get what we deserve.
Circle this word and ask what thoughts come to mind. Explain that death in the Bible always means some kind of separation—in its most basic sense, separation from life. Because God is the author of life, a spiritual death simply means separation from Him.
Draw a circle around this word. Ask, “If wages are what a person earns, then what is a gift?” Remind Jeff that though every gift is free for the person receiving it, someone still has to purchase it.
Circle this and explain that the gift you are talking about is free. It is from God Himself. It’s so special that no one else can give it. Ask, “How do you feel when someone gives you a special gift?”
Circle these two words next, and then ask, “How would you define these words?” Contrast one side of the cliff, death, with the other side, eternal life. Ask, “What is the opposite of separation from God?”
Write these words so they create a bridge between the two cliffs. Help your friend to consider that just as every gift has a unique giver, only Jesus Christ can give the gift of eternal life.
Write this word over the bridge you just drew. Explain that a true friend is a friend you can trust, and tell Jeff that Jesus is offering to be a true friend to him. All Jeff has to do is admit that he is responsible for his sin—either of fighting against God or excluding Him from his life.