Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Five Convictions Evangelistic Churches Share
There are churches growing because they are experiencing new births. And there are churches that are dying because they have not seen a new Christian in decades except for their own children.
Here are five convictions evangelistic churches share.
Sin separates people from God. This is why evangelistic churches talk about the lost. And loving the lost. If your church believes no one is truly lost and everyone is going to be with God anyway, then you actually don't need to be evangelistic. But you better be right on that.
Jesus is the only way to God. Jesus. Not good deeds. Or good morals. Or any non-Jesus religion. Jesus.
The church's mission is to make disciples. Christians do many things because Jesus did. So we feed the hungry, we serve people, we treat people like Jesus. But that is not our mission. Our mission is to make disciples.
The Bible is the word of God. If it is not to be trusted, then we really have a hard time reaching people for Jesus. Because there is not objective truth. There is church truth, or my truth, or culture truth. But not God truth.
Baptism. But not for the reasons you think I mean. I do believe the Bible is clear about being born again, dying with Jesus and being raised to new life, and the gift of the Holy Spirit. All baptism language from Scripture. But I am thinking here about the power of witnessing new births/baptisms. Seeing new Christians convicts the whole church to be part of making disciples. New Christians invite friends to witness their death and new life experience. Those friends often want the same thing. I am amazed how many of the Jesus movements happening now result in dozens, scores, sometimes hundreds of baptisms. Very much like what you read in Acts.
So if you want to be part of an evangelistic church...\
People are lost without Jesus.
Our mission is to share the good news that Jesus died for our sins and God raised him from the dead.
You don't have to believe us, God told us in His own words. That's where we get all this.
And every time you turn around, someone else is being born again.
