WHY DON’T YOU EVANGELIZE, OR SHARE THE GOSPEL WITH LOST SOULS?
If you were to see a burning building and a child was in there, about to be engulfed in flames, would you not have compassion and rescue the child, rather than to see her perish in the flames?
Of course you would!
So, as true Christians we are to have compassion for lost souls. In fact winning people to Jesus Christ, bringing lost people to Jesus Christ, is the principal duty of every Christian. It’s commanded in the great commission.
In Jude 22-23 Jude tells us to “contend for the faith once delivered to the saints.”
Jude is a book that also tells us that we must be doctrinally orthodox. But if we are doctrinally orthodox, and we truly believe right, we must also behave right.
Francis Schaffer once said:
“ Perhaps the ugliest thing in the world is Orthodoxy without Compassion.”
Orthodoxy without compassion excludes caring for the lost. If God used you to win one soul to Jesus Christ, just think what that would mean! You would have brought someone worth more than this entire world to Christ.
And yet as I look at DTS, I’m broken hearted, because I know that most of you, are not soul winners. It perplexes me:
- Most of you have never brought one soul to Jesus Christ.
- But that’s not the saddest thing. The saddest thing is that most of you don’t even try.
- But that’s not even the saddest thing, the saddest thing is that most of you don’t even care!
You Dont even care!
If you cared you would try; if you tried, and went forth weeping, bearing precious seed, according to scripture, you would doubtless come again bringing your sheaves with you.
I’m going to say something and it’s going to sound mean. It’s not mean. And it’s not something I’m saying off the top of my head. It’s not something I haven’t thought through.
- If you do not care about seeing people saved
- If you are not concerned about bringing the lost to Jesus Christ
- I seriously doubt that you have been born again.
- I seriously doubt that you know the Lord Jesus Christ.
- How could you have received such mercy?
- How could you have received such love, and not want to share it.
Oh the motive of compassion! It is the compassion we have received from Him. The mercy we have received from Him. I’m amazed that you are not interested in bringing souls to Jesus Christ.
Real Christians are not about playing games, or playing church, or refusing to authorize tracts to be handed out at “Love Lookout,” were lost souls are entertained by PG movies!
Rather, true Christians love our Lord, and are obedient to the great commission of evangelism and soul winning.
Romans 8:9 reads:
“if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.”
What is the spirit of Christ?
- It is the spirit of compassion!
- It is the spirit of love!
- It is the spirit of evangelism
I plead with you to start evangelizing before it’s too late, and the Master takes us home!
I pray the Holy Spirit will use this exhortation in your life.
Dr. Brian Henry
brianhenryblog 
My Testimony
I led 5 Senior groups 1 homeless shelter group and 1 women’s ministry group. All under the covering of The Salvation Army.
I would prepare the devotional for the day and select what music I wanted to use. It was a lot of work but I was as close to heaven on earth as possible. If you are out sharing the gospel telling people they must repent and be born again and Beating them up with the Bible. Well you will Never lead anyone to Jesus doing that.
Instead pray and ask which ONE should I talk to today, once you test that small quiet voice your life will change. And do you know why I know …… because each week someone accepted Jesus in a mighty way and I was just the vessel …and got to witness how God changed hearts. You can tell you are being led by the Holy Spirit by the results.
One time while sharing about the book of life one women said to her husband “honey you need to do that”. I laughed and told her that she probably did too. So both accepted Jesus.
Here is where the power of the Holy Spirit shines. I went off to my next group and shared MY WITNESS of what just happened and as soon as I finished sharing the testimony a woman said she needed to do that also. An absolutely amazing day. I simply got out of the Holy Spirits way.
I admonish you if you are going to blast people then you should also encourage them by sharing a testimony of how you lead souls to the Lord. All you are doing is pushing people away or making them sad instead of sharing how to do it by the leading of the Holy Spirit.
Have you read Peter’s sermon in Acts 2 and o ER 3000 souls accepted the Lord Jesus and were baptized in one day?
Of course I have. Have you ever read Polythena and Xanithippe? They were under Paul’s ministry and they led 20,000 to Christ an entire city. So what’s your point?
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Where are Polythena and Xanithippe found in the Bible?