Three Ways you can Share the Gospel
Sharing with Words
Generating a Synergy for the Great Commission
In Ministry Outreach Ideas That Will Make You An Evangelist, Anderson (2017) opines that the first way to share the gospel is with words.
People reached with a word based gospel respond to preaching, teaching, stories, literature and theology. These individuals want to know about God and who he is.
Tell Bible Stories. Bible story time is not just for children. Many people who will not sit and listen to a sermon or preacher will listen to a Bible story.
Bible stories are short and can be told in a few minutes. Many people can memorize a story they have read or heard quite easily and retell it to a group. Jesus told parables and stories many times during his earthly ministry.
Sharing with Experiences
The second way is with experience. The people reached with an experience based gospel respond to music, prayer, celebration, feeling part of a community and having a relationship with God.
The key to having an evangelical message during an outreach event is to keep the message gospel centered and evangelistic. Don’t try to preach a Sunday morning sermon written for a believing community to a Saturday night crowd of people from the community.
Don’t use big words or expect your hearers to have any Biblical knowledge at all.
Do talk about common life struggles and problems, errors in secular thinking and the beauty of Christ.
Sharing with Action
(Showing Care | Showing Love | Showing Compassion)
The third way is with practical value or artistic expression. Pragmatic people respond to individuals being helped and supported, good works being done, lives being turned around, beauty produced, and art developed. These people want to see God’s Kingdom being worked out here on earth.
Many of the larger Christian denominations will major in one of these areas and minor in the other two.
To be very effective, and have the widest application your evangelism should be strong in all three areas.
Here are 10 ideas to include in your next faith-based outreach program to maximize your evangelism.
Have Evangelism Team Sit In Audience
If you are sharing in a crusade-like setting, it it is important to have other soul winners sitting in the audience before, during and after your event. If anyone wants to know why, just let them know the gospel is for everyone including the evangelistic team.
By sitting with people, you and your team members are able to speak to them before and after the program. In your conversation you can learn more accurate ways to pray for them, encourage them, speak a true word of grace to them or sometimes, even warn them against sinful behavior.
According to Elizabeth Anderson (2017), people will give more attention to the person at the front who has sat and listened to the people at the back.
