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Why Should We Evangelize?
Motivational Speaker
- Believe it
or not, some of our motives for evangelizing are often selfish.
- Some churches
are more concerned with not having to close their doors a final time than
they are with loving God by participating in His plan of redeeming others.
- Some individuals
are more concerned with being right, or winning an argument, or appearing
intelligent to others, than they are with obeying God and loving the lost.
We should
evangelize out of obedience to God.
- For if I
preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion;
for woe is me if I do not preach the gospel (1Cor 9:16). Paul is motivated by the compulsion of the Spirit.
- Go therefore
and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded
you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age (Matt 28:18-20). We're commanded
to do evangelism by making disciples. The command in itself, therefore, is
designed to elicit obedience.
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