Lessons in Evangelism (Part 2)

When it comes to evangelism, witnessing, sharing your faith, fishing for men/women...whatever you want to call it, two things are vitally important:

1. Your words

2. Your actions

In reaching out to others, we need to have both a verbal witness and a life witness. If you live a good Christian life, but never tell anyone why, then they will just assume you are a good person, just like them (Most people generally think of themselves as good people. We can always find someone who is worse than us.) God has called us to verbally share with them the good news of Jesus Christ. How can they believe in the one whom they have not heard of? (Romans 10:13-15)

If you share a verbal witness but do not have the character or life to back it up, then people will call you a hypocrite. The people who share their faith but do not have the life to back it up, actually do more harm than good. If you are always talking about Jesus or your church and you are out drinking, smoking, cussing, losing your cool, talking bad about others, sleeping around, etc., then you are turning more people away from Christ than you are attracting them to the Savior.

We need to live such a good life that it attracts people to us. Then, we can share with them that we are really not that great of folks, it is simply Jesus Christ living inside of us. (Matthew 5:14-16; 1 Peter 2:11-12)

In the words of Deion Sanders, we need to "walk the walk" and "talk the talk".