Why Should We Evangelize?

Motivational Speaker

Ultimately, we should evangelize out of love for God.

• If you love Me, you will keep My commandments (John 14:15). 
• Love for God is the only sufficient motive for evangelism. Self-love will give way to self-centeredness; love for the lost will fail with those whom we cannot love, and when difficulties seem insurmountable. Only a deep love for God will keep us following His way, declaring his gospel, when human resources fail(John Cheesman, The Grace of God in the Gospel [Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1972], 122).
• Love for God will result in a desire to obey His commands and promote His glory by gathering more worshippers and making more disciples. Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation (1Peter 2:12).

Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. What is your heart full of? What do you spend your words on?

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