1. Friendship evangelism is neither friendship nor evangelism without the verbal proclamation of the gospel.
2. If you say that you believe Jesus is the way, and the truth, and the life but you refuse to tell people, then you really don't care where people will spend eternity. Why? Because you will do what you care about.
3. Might real revival happen if instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build mausoleums to warehouse the spiritually disobedient and to entertain the lost, the Church invested in indigenous missionaries, both at home and abroad? Jesus never said, "If you build it, they will come."
4. Don't worry about Satan. If you are not actively engaged in proclaiming the Law and the Gospel to lost souls and praying for those who do, you pose no real threat to him. And if the enemy does not see you as a threat, then what kind of soldier are you, really?
5. You can't be saved by a gospel you don't know. If you can't tell me biblically how I can get to heaven, then why should I believe you are going there?
6. Depraved Indifference: Being morally culpable while acting with wanton disregard for the life of another. If you refuse to share the gospel with lost souls, then you are guilty as charged.
7. Remember the same verse that says "all liars will have their part in the lake of fire" also says that the cowardly will meet the same fate. When did you last share the gospel with the lost? Can't remember? Don't want to because your scared? Then you have a problem that may be more serious than you think.
8. The true Christian understands that he is to remain in the world while not being of the world. But a false convert will sit precariously atop the fence separating two worlds and, when he thinks he is loosing his balance and he thinks he may fall, he will look to the world instead of Christ to catch him--all the while insisting his trust is in the Lord.
9. If you feed a lost person; if you give him something cool to drink; if you put a roof over his head and give him the shirt off your back, but you fail to share the gospel with him; know this. If he dies after you've lovingly served him, having never heard the gospel from your lips, he will be warmed and filled as he faces God's judgment and eternity in hell. Serve people? Yes. But please share the gospel.
10. If you live by the extra-biblical adage, "Live your life in such a way that people ask you why," yet you dress like the world, talk like the world, act like the world, and enjoy the same things that entertain the world; then what do you expect a spiritually dead and blind person to see in you? It won't be Jesus Christ. It will just be you. They won't ask what's different about you, because you look just like them.
11. If you are doing something that is extra-biblical, meaning the Bible neither commands nor condemns the activity, you must be extra-careful. To use the fact that the Bible does not specifically speak about a certain activity as justification to engage in the activity is neither wise nor safe. For when the Word of God is not your guide, you are led by nothing more than sinful, fallible flesh. So be careful.
12. Proclaiming the Law and the Gospel is not a right given to Christians by men. It is a command given to Christians by God. If you want to earn and exercise a right, go earn and exercise the right to die for Jesus Christ at the hands of the very people who insist you do not have the right to speak to them about the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
13. People like to say, "Jesus is with me wherever I go." Yet many seem to forget or ignore what they profess to believe when they sit in a theater, or in front of the television, or at the computer--entertained by profanity, blasphemy, gratuitous violence, or sexual content. Judas claimed to follow Jesus and betrayed Him for 30 pieces of silver. What is your price? Will you betray Jesus to enjoy ungodly entertainment?
14. As a Christian, do you affirm the Bible's teaching that one should not seek the praises of men and that God alone is worthy of praise while, at the same time, fully expecting God to praise you when you obey Him? Then please consider what Jesus said. "So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, 'We are unworthy servants, we have only done what was our duty'" (Lk. 17:10).
15. One woman dances in a "gentlemen's club," in a seedy part of town. Another woman is a model and participates in "beauty" pageants on the world's stages. Both disrobe for money. Yet many Christians would say the former needs Christ while, at the same time, they prop up the latter as a Christian role model. Does anyone else see the hypocrisy in that?
16. A 17-year-old girl pays a 21-year-old friend to beat her up, hoping the assault would cause her to miscarriage. He is charged with attempt "murder." She is charge with solicitation to commit "murder." Yet women solicit doctors to murder their babies every day. Why is the former a crime and the latter a "choice?" Simple. It's the hypocrisy of a God-hating society and the total depravity of the human heart and mind.
17. False conversion begins in the pulpit, not the pew.
18. Leaders of the G8 countries have decided to limit the rise in global temperature to 3.6 degrees. What can be gleaned from this?
Eight foolish creatures who can't control a broken, global economy think they can control the climate of the world the Creator made.
President Obama: stretch out your hand as wide as you can. How much of the world can you hold in your palm? Instead of trying to play God, submit to Him as Lord.
19. A Foosball table for the youth center: $349.
An ATM machine to allow people to give while continuing to rack up debt on their credit cards: $2,500.
A Latte Lounge where folks can contemplate how missional it would be to get the same hybrid car their neighbor has: $75,000.
A new building that seats 10,000 people and designed not to look like a church: $2.5 million.
A church that doesn't preach the gospel: Worthless!
20. Isn't it sad that those who scream "You're judgmental!" the loudest never seem to do so in front of a mirror?
21. It always fascinates me how some Christians will hear me share the gospel and rail against my "methodology," saying, "Evangelism isn't about methods." Then they try to support their rebuke by talking about friendship evangelism, meeting felt needs, and being culturally relevant. Wait. Aren't those methods? I think methods are fine so long as the GOSPEL is preached. Maybe that's what bugs them. Maybe it's not the methodology after all. Maybe it's the gospel that bothers them. If so, they should examine themselves to see if they are even in the faith.
22. Christians refer to Jesus as "King of kings," yet many see Him as an elected official--someone they chose. Repent! God is sovereign. Not you.
23. Someone once said, "The 'atheist' can't find God for the same reason a thief can't find a policeman."
24. If you believe Jesus stands knocking at the door of the human heart, then you make sovereign the one who answers the door.
25. A church's budget reveals whether or not they believe the Lord will return at any moment.
26. Jesus said that people will hate me because of Him. What unbelievers often fail to realize is that their hatred toward Christians only serves to validate that the Word of God is true.
27. "Pro-Choice Christian": An oxymoron of a perverse and wicked generation; and evidence of the false conversion rate in America.
28. Confrontation: "the act of confronting; the state of being confronted; as a face-to-face meeting or the clashing of forces or ideas."
Contrary to what many Christians believe, the word "confrontation," by definition, is a positive term in evangelism. You can't call a person to repent and believe the gospel without confronting sin--without the will and the Word of God confronting the sinful will of man. Every real presentation of the gospel is a clash of forces and ideas--Truth versus error; Light versus darkness; Life versus death.
Yes, the Christian should always strive to speak the truth in love. But without confrontation there can be no true evangelism. So, my fellow evangelists, the next time someone accuses you of "confrontational evangelism" and uses the term in a negative way, politely thank them for lumping you in with the likes Jesus, Peter, John, Stephen, and Paul. And then ask them when they, too, will follow the Lord's lead.
So, if there is no confrontation in your proclamation and presentation of the gospel, are you sure it's the gospel you are sharing with people?
29. Ad Hominem: the unbeliever's last-ditch effort to hold on to self-righteousness and a testament to the weakness of their position.
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Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that(A) have been accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught. ~ Luke 1:2-4 (ESV)
What the atheist will never find in evolution: a logical, orderly account with evidence to support their faith in nothing.
