We need more people to be witnesses!
Church leaders need to simplify the education process of evangelism and lower the learning curve for people so we can mobilize more people with the gospel.
In missions the mantra is, “make it reproducible.” That is, we need to help people reproduce the gospel in their lives and make it simple enough for them to know how to take it to their friends. Whatever we can do to remove barriers to getting the gospel to spread naturally through relationships and kinship networks we should do it.
As a missionary, I hope we can begin to use approaches that require less expertise and dependence on technology and make it something that flows more naturally in people’s everyday lives. We need to develop resources and plan evangelism training in our churches that help people get active sharing their faith.
But also, we need to focus on helping them see that people will be more receptive than they imagine. Jesus said, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few." (Matt 9:37).
What is lacking is not receptive people but instead workers in the harvest. We need to make ourselves more available to God as witnesses. so instead of trying to make people more receptive to the gospel, we should try to make Christians more available to the Lord of the Harvest to evangelize!
You don’t have to be a minister or traveling evangelist to be a work in the harvest. You simply need to answer the call from the Lord of the Harvest. Anyone can be a witness for Jesus!
In missions the mantra is, “make it reproducible.” That is, we need to help people reproduce the gospel in their lives and make it simple enough for them to know how to take it to their friends. Whatever we can do to remove barriers to getting the gospel to spread naturally through relationships and kinship networks we should do it.
As a missionary, I hope we can begin to use approaches that require less expertise and dependence on technology and make it something that flows more naturally in people’s everyday lives. We need to develop resources and plan evangelism training in our churches that help people get active sharing their faith.
But also, we need to focus on helping them see that people will be more receptive than they imagine. Jesus said, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few." (Matt 9:37).
What is lacking is not receptive people but instead workers in the harvest. We need to make ourselves more available to God as witnesses. so instead of trying to make people more receptive to the gospel, we should try to make Christians more available to the Lord of the Harvest to evangelize!
You don’t have to be a minister or traveling evangelist to be a work in the harvest. You simply need to answer the call from the Lord of the Harvest. Anyone can be a witness for Jesus!
