Musings on Spiritual Matters

Does the Book of Acts provide everything one needs to reach the world for Christ?  The quick answer would be yes.  It tells of Jesus Christ and His works, it tells of the plan of salvation, and it tells some methods in reaching out to the world.  Here is the pattern, follow it.  But was Acts written to provide the evangelistic plan for the church through all ages?  Probably not, it was written to showcase the spread of the Gospel, not the “how to’s” of the gospel.  As we move to a more missional evangelistic model, there is a great need to be incarnational.  This means that we are looking to enter into the world in the name of God.  This is deal through understanding the needs and present realities of the lost.  How do you reach them?  I like what one of my deacons stated concerning missional evangelism.  He was talking about this new shift and was stating to the elders that we were going to need some deacon help in this new direction.  This guy is a smart deacon.  He understands the times and what the church should do.  Sounds like another group of men in the Bible.  But the wise comment was this.  “We are moving in a missional direction, but we are unsure of what this will look like.”  This would scare a lot of people.  But it did not scare him because the mission of God is more important than his comfort.  We must reach out to the lost.  This is not an option.  We are moving towards an incarnational cultural evangelism, and we do not know what it will look like.  But we are moving.

Related posts:

1. Article on Missional Evangelism
2. Attending Evangelism University
3. Evangelism That Will Not Work
4. Evangelism of the Converted by the Converted
5. Equipped to Reach the Lost

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