Who has the responsibility for evangelizing? Missionaries?
Pastors? Teachers?
According to Scripture, all Christians should evangelize.
Jesus gave the Great Commission to his eleven Apostles and a few other
disciples with them. Obviously this small band of followers could not proclaim
the Gospel to the ends of the earth and make disciples of all nations. So the
Great Commission is for you and me and all other believers.Someone might say,
“But isn’t it the job of evangelists to spread the Gospel?” Yes, evangelists are
responsible for spreading the Gospel. They have the gift of evangelism. So they
are effective in winning souls for Christ. But evangelists are not the only
ones who should make disciples.
Every Christian who is able to witness is commanded to witness for
Christ. Only a small portion of the church has the gift of evangelism, but
every Christian that can think and speak can testify that Christ is Lord. It is
through the witness of the multiplied millions of Christians that the Gospel
can be spread quickly to every people group on earth. Christians serve as a
daily witness to their families, friends, and co-workers. Every believer is a
priest, and a priest leads people to worship God.
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a
people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you
out of darkness into his wonderful light. (1 Peter 2:9 NIV).We serve as
Christ’s ambassadors to non-believers (see 2 Cor. 5:20). (For details and for free course
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