Five steps to Effective Divine Evangelism

Messages for December 2018: Our Month of: The Ingathering

Message for Sunday 23^rd December, 2018

Theme: Understanding Divine Evangelism

Topic: Five steps to Effective Divine Evangelism

Introduction: Last week we saw how we can become evangelists as families. We learnt that we have to start at home just as charity begins at home. We also established that it was biblical. We took our queue from the book of Acts 1:8 where the Lord listed the progression of evangelism from Jerusalem through Samaria, Judea and to the uttermost part of the earth.

Today, we shall be looking at five simple steps we can take to make our evangelism efforts effective God’s way. We shall immediately go into these five steps listed below:

1.     Prayer: This is the beginning of everything we do especially in this kind of thing that involves representing God to men. We have no right telling anyone about God without first talking to God about them. The place where we do this is in prayer. Through prayer, we intercede for places, things and people before God. The beauty of this is that God has promised to answer this kind of prayer. As a matter of fact, He has said he has been seeking for people to stand in the gap on behalf of the land so that the land could be spared from destruction. If He finds no one to do it, He would have to do it himself. This means He can compel any of His true servants to arise and take up the challenge.  Ezek.22:30

§  When we pray, we intercede for the land because sin brings reproach to any people as it starts by contaminating their land making it barren and unproductive. When there are no intercessors, there would be no peace in and godliness in the land which means there could be chaos. See Prov.14:34; 1Tim.2:1-2.

§  We intercede for everyone in the land because it is the people that Jesus died for. For the saved among them who are not pulling their weight to save the lost, it could be as a result of ignorance. Our prayer can wake them up and there would be an awakening to God in the land as we take the responsibility of interceding for them. It is only when man invite God to get involved in the affairs of the earth that God can legally come. The means by which man invites God is prayer. See Ps.115:16 and Jer.33:3

§  We intercede for our unsaved neighbours, family and friends requesting for the salvation of their souls to actualize the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross for their redemption. See Acts 16:31 and Acts 6:4 and 7.

§  When we intercede for the lost, we are coming in direct conflict with the devil who has held them captive for a long time and would not want to let go without a fight. The truth is that in the place of prayer, we are taught by the Holy Spirit about how to take the particular territory we are interceding for and as we do what He tells us, the land and the people will be delivered to the Lord and the Kingdom of God can find full expression in that environment. God has promised to give us the heathen for our inheritance if we ask Him. See Ps.2:8; 2Cor.4:3-4; Eph.2:2-3; 6:10-18 and 2Cor.10:3-6.

2.     Model Christ to them by walking in love: The best complement we can pay to the Lord is our obedience to His word. The only way people can know that we are the Disciples of Christ is that they see us walking in love towards each other. This is what makes the gospel attractive enough to sinners that they want to get saved and become like us. The best description of walking in love is shown to us in the amplified version of 1Cor.13:4-8. See Jn.13:35

3.     Preach the gospel to them and win them to Christ: When we preach the gospel to the lost, it must be with the intention to get them to the point of being persuaded enough to embrace the faith in Christ Jesus. When they do, we have won a soul to Christ and this usually makes God happy because it is the fulfilment of the result of His effort on Calvary’s Cross. We read in that He shall see the travail of His soul and be satisfied. Isa.53:11. Apostle Paul singlehandedly delivered Asia Minor of His time to God through the preaching of the gospel in two years. See Acts 19:9-10.

4.     Disciple them: This aspect is like parenting. Once a parent, always a parent. This makes you a shepherd of a kind over your converts. It is not in all cases you actually have people making commitment. What we are actually sent to do is to bear witness to the resurrection of Christ and His second coming or His return on earth. see Acts 1:8;

5.     Follow them up with intercession until Christ is formed in them: Apostle Paul refers to the Church in Galatia in Gal.4:19 as his little children for whom he travails in birth again until Christ is formed in them. In other words, after people are saved through your evangelism efforts, you will need to finalize with prayers so that they can grow to manifest the nature of Christ and start bearing fruit to His glory and also become instrument in God’s hands to raise others for Christ. This is what God wants of us now. This is how the early Church fathers who preserved the faith for us lived. We must produce people in the image and after the likeness of Christ. For us to do this, we must first yield ourselves to the Holy Spirit for Him to do the work in our lives. See Philp.2:25-30.

We would draw the curtain on this message here today. Meanwhile, someone may be reading this blog right now who wants to be part of God’s program on earth today to see this kind of change we are talking about. You can start right away by saying the following prayers in faith and you will be born again by the work of the Holy Spirit:

Heavenly Father,

Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this father in Jesus’ name! Amen.

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