Practice Faith

 

    Faith should cultivate relationships with God and other Christians.  It provides confidence to go out into your community or circle of people in your life due to circumstance to sow the gospel and nurture it.  If you live out your faith, then you are talking to people about Jesus.  You may only be leaving a seed, but you may also be the person that brings them toward conversion.

    In evangelism you you practice your faith through cultivation.  It becomes natural to invite people to church, your Sunday School (life group), and acts of ministry.   You train yourself whether formally or just talking to people to speak about Jesus and be prepared to lead them to Jesus.  

    You live in a secular world.  You are more likely to talk to an unbeliever than a believer unless you cocoon yourself in a small circle and never venture out to talk to anyone else.  When you are talking to unbelievers you need to get rid of the churchy words to have real talk that they can connect with.  

    People are more concerned about human affairs, politics, world events, personal life, and other things than they are about God.  You may have to be creative to bring Him up.  You may just have to be known for your faith and they may bring it up to you.  Either way, they are not likely to see the importance of church, so you need to be the church that they see.  Reaching them will take persistence, resilience, and faith.

    To practice faith you need to be genuine to build trust.  You are an ambassador for God.  You represent Him in this world, so make sure you are living life with Jesus.  Listen to the Holy Spirit to live out holy love.  Show genuine concern for people to establish meaningful relationships involving Jesus.  Practicing faith is being genuine, open, creditable, listener, risk-taker, having conversations, sacrificial, knowledgeable, integrity, responsible, and committed to Jesus.

    It may take time, but living your life working with Jesus will impact unbelievers one way or another.  They will not be able to say you never told them about the choice of salvation.  If you are living out your faith you are living out the great commission.  

Matthew 11:28-30, John 4:34-38, Acts 2:41-47, & 1 Corinthians 3:5-9, 9:22-23