Thanks to Outreach Volunteers, Effective Evangelism, What is the Gospel? (Pastoral Emphasis for 8/19)
Thanks to those who volunteered yesterday for our Back-to-School Outreach with Mosaic Church. We had a great group from both churches (including children) to assemble and distribute to a local neighborhood. We'll be delivering a percentage of the backpacks to West Cary on tomorrow.
Project: Witness To Thy Neighbor is still active. Sincerely pray for opportunities to share the Gospel and then look for them. Effective evangelism is the understanding and communicating the Gospel. If you don't understand the Gospel then you won't be able to effectively communicate it. You may mistake some things for the Gospel that are not.
Your personal testimony is not the Gospel. Your testimony is the effect of the Gospel and it contributes to evangelism. Social action is not the Gospel. Doing good for others commend the Gospel. Our personal testimonies and good works for others are wonderful but in order for it to be evangelism, the Gospel must be clearly communicated, whether in written or oral form.
So what is the Gospel? The Gospel is that we are all sinners separated from God. God sent Jesus to redeem sinners by dying on the Cross for our sin. Jesus rose from the dead defeating sin and death. Sinners must repent and trust in Jesus to be forgiven and receive eternal life with God. That in a nutshell is the Gospel.
Project: Witness To Thy Neighbor is still active. Sincerely pray for opportunities to share the Gospel and then look for them. Effective evangelism is the understanding and communicating the Gospel. If you don't understand the Gospel then you won't be able to effectively communicate it. You may mistake some things for the Gospel that are not.
Your personal testimony is not the Gospel. Your testimony is the effect of the Gospel and it contributes to evangelism. Social action is not the Gospel. Doing good for others commend the Gospel. Our personal testimonies and good works for others are wonderful but in order for it to be evangelism, the Gospel must be clearly communicated, whether in written or oral form.
So what is the Gospel? The Gospel is that we are all sinners separated from God. God sent Jesus to redeem sinners by dying on the Cross for our sin. Jesus rose from the dead defeating sin and death. Sinners must repent and trust in Jesus to be forgiven and receive eternal life with God. That in a nutshell is the Gospel.
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