Tuesday, June 12, 2018

TIM Good morning, I’m Tim Wise, Sanctuary Choir Director at Central. Evangelism is a powerful tool that we as followers of Jesus are called to use. The Great Commission found at the end of the book of Matthew commands us: “Go and make disciples of all nations!” What does this mean for us? Well, I will tell you that you cannot be successful with evangelism until you have mastered the art of building relationships. While the basic definition of evangelism is spreading the Christian gospel by preaching or personal witness, you cannot successfully preach or witness to someone until you have established a relationship with them. Think of how difficult it is to hold a conversation with someone you don’t really know. Your goal should be more than conversion. It should be about establishing a relationship with the person to then help them establish a relationship with Christ. Until Christians realize that conversion is not the end goal, we will continue to fail in our mission to make disciples. I challenge you to renew your mindset of evangelism. Build relationships to build their relationship with Christ—that in turn will cause the process to repeat itself with new Christ followers.