More Common Evangelism Excuses
8. I don’t want to give just some forced evangelistic presentation.
Then don’t! Have a gospel conversation instead of giving an evangelistic presentation. The goal is to engage people in a dialogue, not make them listen to your monologue. After the conversation, offer them a genuine opportunity to say “yes” to Jesus, not a pitch!
9. Evangelism doesn’t work in a post-Christian culture.
The gospel always works (Romans 1:16). But sometimes Christians don’t work hard enough to communicate this message in a way that people will hear.
10. I have other priorities.
Last up on the list of excuses… This is a super-common excuse in our busy world. But Jesus told us what our number-one priority should be while on this earth. He told us, “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you. And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.’ Amen.” (Matthew 28:18-20)
The Greek word for go is a participle. You could read it “as you are going.” In other words, as we are going to work, to play, to school, to Starbucks, to the movie theater, to wherever—we should be making disciples.
As someone said, “It’s the Great Commission, not the good suggestion.” So drop your super-lame excuses and start cracking. Evangelism isn’t as difficult as you might think.
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