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The evangelist is one who is given the mandate to evangelize the world with God's good news. This mandate is not an option for the follower of Christ, nor is it the sole territory of a few idealists who choose to be different; God wants all believers to be part of this ministry.
However, by making a worldwide witness the business of every believer, the integrity of the Lord Jesus in on the line. He has to define the task, and describe the type of life the believer is to live, hence the order is a large one. Since the Bible declares that every human being has been distanced from God by sin, and is already condemned, God owes no one salvation but by grace, He offers it freely through His Son Jesus Christ. This means that all who are not saved through Jesus Christ will face a hopeless future. As a result of this, every Christian is called into the ministry of evangelism. As half of humanity is headed for eternal separation from God without even knowing that Christ came to open a way back to God for them, it will be our fault if we do not give them this life-giving information. We must bear the blame if we fail to be open in receiving God's full revelation of our role as evangelist and bring back these souls to Him.
Can you see how incredible our indifference to this command to make disciples of nations for God can be? Despite the command of God for us to evangelize the people; we are still indifferent to make a move. Our ability to accept as fact the utter lostness of humanity and yet remain quite apathetic about the entire people still unreached with God's good news about Christ is appalling. God has called us into this ministry that seeks and saves souls by taking the gospel of Christ to people's location. Any person that receives the gift of an evangelist is vital for the growth of the Church. Evangelists see a lost world, and are strongly motivated by God to bring the message of the Gospel on every occasion possible. If you have this gift you may sometimes feel that other Christians have little desire to reach the lost.
The import of evangelism is all about soul-winning, which is a fundamental issue, based on the fact that a soul is of more value to God than the entire world put together. The value of a soul cannot be quantified, and so, this knowledge makes for a right attitude toward soul-winning. Our predicament has been lack of in-depth knowledge of invaluableness of souls and the place of souls in God's mind. When the right knowledge of a soul's worth, the fate of unrepentant (unreached multitude) but departed souls and the reward of sou1winning is gotten, soul-winning that has hitherto been boring, burdensome, frightening and uninteresting to majority will be embraced with great zeal, joy and sense of its urgency.
It is evident that the soul of a man is the never-dying aspect of a composite being called man. By composite, we mean, that he is made of body, soul and spirit. The body aspect of man must surely die, but the soul and spirit of a man (good or evil) will continue to exist either in eternal bliss or horror. The worth of a soul is better seen from the question that our Lord asked in Matthew16:26 - "what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and lose his soul, or what shall a man give in exchange of his soul?" What the Lord actually meant is that the world with all therein is, is worthless compared to the value of a single soul. The above reasons account for, Jesus Christ leaving the glory of heaven to descend on earth, so as to suffer death on the cross, for what humanity could benefit from it.
Soul-winning is a responsibility that could not be substituted with any other responsibility, without attracting the wrath of a Holy God, who will have all men to be saved. Those who would want God not to see them as wicked, slothful, and unprofitable, must seriously re-consider their attitude towards soul-winning. It is awful to realize that hundred of thousands of men who die daily without addressing seriously their eternal welfare due to our negligence, will spend their eternity in horror of hell crying against us for wickedness. How will God not require their blood from our hand? The believers kill sinners and throw them into hell fire through the negligence of their responsibility.
It is high time we give serious thought to this matter. God does not compromise the standard of His word. If a generation or a city chooses to ignore God, they will perish. Ignorance is not an excuse for sinning. This makes the soul-winner's responsibility mandatory and indispensable. The consequence of negligence is grievous both on the part of soul-winner and neglected soul. Because of this truth, the apostle Paul vowed to preach and rigidly carrying out his responsibility as an evangelist (soul-winner). Are you gifted as an evangelist? Recall that evangelist ministry as equally used here to include Mission ministry. People with the gift of a missionary have their eyes on seeing men and women brought to Christ in remote and unreached locations. People with this gift, have a great desire to bring Christ cross-culturally to people who have never heard of Him before. Do you have a strong burden and ability to point men and women to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ? Let me know about it!
Vitus Ejiogu is a writer and publisher with the Fire-Brand Int"l Ministries, a media ministry that is based in Nigeria.
He is the editor of FOUNDATION SATELLITE magazine also published by the ministry. He pastors a Church in Bauchi and is married with two children.
You can reach him at: firebrandhq@yahoo.com or: 234 80 8181 829.
Website: http://www.palmgates.com or http://www.firebrandhq.com
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