Biblical Strategies For Sharing The Gospel
Biblical strategies for sharing the Gospel focus on communicating the message of salvation through Jesus Christ with love, boldness, clarity, and compassion. These Biblical strategies for sharing the Gospel highlight the importance of personal involvement, commitment, love, and reliance on God’s guidance and power to effectively share the Gospel with others.
Biblical Strategies For Sharing The Gospel
1. Geographic Gospel Saturation
The Bible is clear in showing that God loves all people everywhere in the world. And that because God loves all, He wants all to be saved.
1 Timothy 2:4 – God wants all men to be saved, and to come to a knowledge of the truth.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world…
Acts 1:8
*God will empower us to be His witnesses
*We are to Be Witnesses, not just Do witnessing once in awhile. We are to be filled with God’s love and passion to reach the many lost in the world who are without Christ and without hope
*We are to take the Gospel to our Jerusalem (our community), our Judea & Samaria (our nation), and to the ends of the earth (our world)
Acts 8:1,4 “Those who had been scattered (ALL the regular people of the church) preached the word wherever they went” The early church in the book of Acts were all faithful in obeying Jesus’ command to be “fishers of men” and faithful witnesses for Jesus. And to take the Gospel message everywhere. Even during terrible persecution and difficult circumstances.
Acts 13:44, 49 – Paul & Barnabus in Antioch… “On the next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord… And the word of the Lord was being spread though the whole region”
Acts 19:8-10 – Paul in Ephesus… “…this went on for 2 years so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord”
The church in the Bible had a clear goal and passion. To passionately and faithfully take the Gospel to all people in their communities, in their nation, and all around the world.
Biblical Strategies For Sharing The Gospel
2. Public Preaching of the Gospel
The apostles and all of the regular people in the early church in Acts utilized various types of public events and religious festivals as opportunities to reach many people with the Gospel. These are just a few examples of this strategy being used.
Acts 2:14-41 – Peter preached – 3000 saved
Acts 3 & 4 – Peter & John preached – 5000 saved
Acts 5:42 “And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they kept right on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.”
Acts 17:1-2 “…they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. And according to Paul’s custom, he went to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures.”
Acts 17:16-17 “While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. So he reasoned in the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there.”
Acts 18:1,4 “After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth… Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.
Acts 19:8-10 (Paul in the synagogue for 3 months, and then daily in the school of Tyrannus for 2 years)
Biblical Strategies For Sharing The Gospel
3. Social Assistance Ministry And Events
The modern/liberal “evangelism” style of today’s church in the US is to replace sharing the Gospel with social assistance. Many churches today have some ministries where they help needy people and homeless people with food, clothes… And then they may try to pray with/for them. And that’s it.
This is not what Jesus called and commanded us to do. Of course Jesus wants us to help and care for the poor and needy. And for the homeless too. But Jesus does not want us to stop there.
Jesus is always most concerned about their greatest need. Their spiritual and eternal need for a Savior to save them from their sin. And from the eternal punishment, suffering, and separation from God that everyone who does not know Jesus as Lord & Savior is heading for.
And Jesus wants us to be very concerned about people’s great need – their need for a Savior. So much so that we are to try to take the Gospel to as many people as we possibly can.
Mark 6:30-34; 44 “The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught. Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.” So they went away by themselves in a boat to a solitary place. But many who saw them leaving recognized them and ran on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them. When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things… The number of men who had eaten was five thousand.
Acts 3,4 – Peter & John & the lame man begging – they healed him – this drew many people & they used the opportunity to preach the Gospel (5000 saved)
Acts 9:36-41 (Tabitha/Dorcas – she ministered to needy women and reached many for Christ)
Biblical Strategies For Sharing The Gospel
Another strategy that the early church used was to preach the Gospel at events. Events like religious festivals, and other types of events. They took advantage of these events so that they could reach as many people as possible for Christ.
4. Preach the Gospel At Events
Acts 2 (Peter preached at the Festival of Pentecost. Many people from other nations and languages were in Jerusalem for the religious festival. Peter preached and 3000 men were saved)
Acts 3,4 (Peter & John healed a man, then preached the Gospel to a crowd at the synagogue. 5000 men were saved)
Acts 19:8-10 – Paul in Ephesus – Pauls preached for 3 months at the synagogue there. When they resisted him, he started preaching the Gospel at the school or lecture hall of Tyrannus. This went on for 2 yearsm until everyone in the region of Asia heard the Gospel
Church and community events such as VBS, Plays, Music events, Christmas events, Easter egg hunt, ministry for families, youth events, ministry for business people,… These events can and should be used to preach the Gospel, in order to reach as many people as possible for Jesus.
Biblical Strategies For Sharing The Gospel
5. Personal Evangelism
Another strategy that the early church in the Bible used to spread the Gospel was one on one, person-to-person evangelism.
Acts 5:42 “And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they kept right on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.”
Acts 8:26-39 (Phillip & the Ethiopian)
God has given us a great example for us to follow in the Bible. Everyone in the early church in the book of Acts were passionately devoted to Jesus. And they were willing to sacrifice, and even suffer and die for Jesus. And to do the things that Jesus called and commissioned them to do. Mainly take the Gospel out to as many as possible, and make disciples.
And they passionately and lovingly took the Gospel out to as many people as possible. When churches utilize all of the Biblical strategies that they used to take the Gospel to the lost, they will see God do many great things. And they will grow tremendously, both spiritually and numerically.
May more and more Christians and churches passionately and faithfully obey and follow Jesus. And do all that He has called and commanded us to do. The world would be a different and much better place if more of us would do our part.
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