Visible Evangelism

How are you? We are living in terrible times. The immensity of it breaks all the rules. Many people are searching for the meaning of life. Religious warfare and poor church leadership are driving people towards esoteric ism which promises ultimate fulfilment. Satan is rubbing his hands together. Every person who leaves the church is a hope for his victory. Every person who idolises another is blind and deaf to the Gospel of Christ. For this reason satan does everything in his power to blind them.

How did we experience it? I myself followed the path of esoteric for a long time, in my search for the meaning of life. However, on my path I encountered a Christian who would not give up trying to bring me close to Jesus. Although I was blind and death to the Gospel, I recognized her faithfulness. For ten years she unrelentingly badgered me with patience and love and time and again came to me when I found myself flat on the ground because I was suffering hardship.

She did not preach with words, but with deeds. From that I recognised the love of God. Her recipe for helping me come to faith was visible evangelism.

Are we following the many recommendations of the Bible for our daily lives, to bring people to Jesus. Because the harvest is ripe (John 4:35) Amen.

Colossians 4:5-6 “Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”

Ephesians 4:29-32 “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”

Romans 15:2 “Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.”

2 Timothy 2:24-26 “And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.”

2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 “Now our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.”

That and much more, I wish for all of us...

be abundantly blessed, your

Rosemarie Schauer