How to Share the Gospel
I. Where to Start if You Don’t Know the Bible Very Well:
II. Where to Start if You Feel Comfortable Using Scripture:
I. Where to Start if You Don’t Know the Bible Very Well:
#1 – Your Testimony aka “Can I Get a Witness?”
Rev. 12:11
“They overcame him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony…”
There is Great Power in Your Testimony of JESUS in Actively Your Life!! The Apostles in Acts 2 traveled around Jerusalem & the Surrounding Areas sharing Their Testimony of what JESUS did in Their Lives!! The Results were Staggering as Lives were Being Changed Daily!!
GREAT NEWS: We have the Same Power Available to Us by Our Testimony of What JESUS did in Our Lives!!! The Nature of the Testimony is the Same (JESUS CHRIST & HIM Crucified), but the Delivery is Somewhat Different as Our Society is So A.D.D. These Days!! The Delivery Time we have available to share Our Testimony with someone these days is about 3 minutes before their mind wanders off!! Most People These Days won’t listen to a 30 minute to an hour life story, but most people will listen to a 3 minute story after you’ve listened to them!! So, Your Challenge is to have Your Entire Testimony packaged in about 3 minutes!!
What’s My Testimony??
Step #1 – What My Life Looked Like Before JESUS
Step #2 – How & When I Met JESUS Personally
Step #3 – How My Life Has Changed Since Meeting JESUS
Ex: Brad’s Testimony
After running my car into a house when I was blackout drunk, I was sitting in jail just thinking about how empty my life was with all this alcohol, drugs, sex, money, power, & influence… everything the world said should make me happy, but didn’t make me happy & always left me filling unsatisfied and longing for more!! In that moment in my jail cell, I hit rock bottom and in desperation just called out to GOD, “If you exist GOD, if you’re out there, let me hear something from you!!”
Then GOD spoke to me in my prayers, “’For I know the plans I have for you. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you a hope and a future.”
I said, “GOD, this is what I’ve always been looking for: hope, a future, prosperity!! What do I have to do to get what you’re offering me?”
GOD replied, “You’ve got to live 100% for me! None of this going to church once a week for an hour thing, but actually live 100% for me like you’ve been living 100% for the world! That’s the only way you’ll receive everything I’m offering you!”
I said, “Well, I’ve got nothing to lose! This is my 5th time getting arrested… I might as well try living for JESUS!!!”
That was 2 ½ years ago and I can tell you now I’ve never been Happier or More Fulfilled or More Satisfied with Life than I am Living 100% for JESUS!!! Don’t get me wrong: It’s the Toughest Thing I’ve Ever Done Living 100% for JESUS, but It’s Absolutely Worth it All!!! I’ve Been More Blessed & Seen More Answered Prayers & Miracles in the Last 2 ½ years that I would have Ever Imagined I would have received in an Entire Lifetime!! GOD is Faithful & HE is Fully LOVE!!! I’m Saved & Definitely Know I’m Going to Heaven… How About You??
CHALLENGE: Write out your testimony and practice reading it out loud! Then read it to someone you know and then to another person you know until finally you’re so confident in your story, you’re sharing your testimony of JESUS with people you’ve never met before!! …And when You do that it’s called Evangelism aka Sharing the Gospel!! HALLELUJAH!!!
II. Where to Start When You Feel Comfortable Using Bible Scriptures:
John 3:16
“For GOD so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.”
1 John 5:11-12
“And this is the testimony: GOD has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son does not have life.”
John 14:6
JESUS said, “I am The Way and The Truth and The Life. No one comes to the FATHER except through Me.”
#1 – “Romans Road” Provides a FANTASTIC Overview of the Gospel
Romans 3:23
“For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of GOD...”
Romans 5:8
”But GOD demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, CHRIST died for us.”
Romans 6:23
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of GOD is eternal life in CHRIST JESUS our LORD.”
Romans 10:9
“That if you confess with your mouth ‘JESUS is LORD’ and believe in your heart GOD raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”
Romans 10:13
“Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.”
CHALLENGE: Memorize as Many of these Verse as Possible!!! Then Pray & Ask GOD if He will Open Up Doors of Opportunity to Share These Verses w/ Others as You Commit More & More of Them to Your Heart!! GOD is Faithful & Will Use You if You Ask to Be Used!! PRAISE JESUS!!!