What Does the Bible Say About Evangelism Really

What does the Bible Say?What is evangelism?How do you experience salvation? How do you bring your friend, your neighbor, or your family member to know, to experiencing the Lord? How does the evangelism of the church reach everyone in the world?The world of evangelism has become a myriad of methods and techniques. From the one-on-one, high pressure selling of Christ to the subjection by force of entire armies and nations, well meaning people have tried just about everything in their attempt to evangelize the world. In the recent years, however, these evangelistic methods have a mortality rate of 76-92 per cent. According to the latest Church Growth experts, out of 100 people "converted" to Christ, 76 of those conversions (92 in some cases) will lose what spiritual identity they had before they become an integrated part of the Christian community. Although these methods appear to be successful, the back door of the visible church is as wide open as the front door. This evangelistic approach does not seem to be working. The evangelism definition of the visible church may need to be redefined.How did Jesus share the life of the Father? How did He bring salvation? How did He share eternal life?In His priestly prayer to the Father, He prayed ". . . I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do" (John 17:4). Days before Jesus died on the cross, He said that He had finished His work. Amazingly, He is stating that His desire, His purpose in life was finished before He went to the cross.In that same prayer, He prayed, "I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word" (17:6). Four times in this one verse, He mentioned the object of His men, they, them, and they. It seems Jesus left the glory world and came to this world just to enter into the lives of a very few people. He came to share the Father with basically twelve-twenty people.Jesus is the distinctive answer for every man’s need. However, how one comes to find that answer must be as distinctive as well, if it is indeed the sharing of Eternal Life. Every believer should look up and notice the people that God has already brought into their the family, the neighbour, the grocery clerk, the mailman, and the countless other people that are met every day. If you will listen closely (“Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.”), you will hear their cries for help.Just as Jesus entered into the lives of a few people (“. . . as many as [the Father] hast given him” [John 17:2]), God seeks every believer to enter into the lives of those He brings to them. The Father is not asking every believer to win the world for Jesus. He simply seeks people to encounter His love with other people. He only asks that His love may flow through the believer to care, to share, and, possibly, just to wipe the tears from someone’s eyes. It is an evangelistic lifestyle.The meat of every Christian should be “to do the will of him that [sends the Christian], and to finish his work.” God’s will and God’s work is for each believer to allow Jesus to manifest His love through the believer unto those that God has brought into his life (John 17:2-6). Many do not understand and religion will actually deny it, but just the simple experiencing of Jesus Christ, the Life, in the connections of life is the mandate of sharing Eternal Life. The oneness of Jesus, others, and you is the real “joy” of life.