Evangelism Unwrapped

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Last night I was at an event in Portsmouth organised by the churches in the city as a joint evangelism venture. It was called Christmas unwrapped and the well known evangelist J John was the guest speaker.

The evening seem to go well and a number of people gave their lives to Jesus. All broadcast to 97% of the globe (if you believe the spin) courtesy of God TV. Now, it�s not the event itself that I want to talk about, although that may be a subject for future posts, but instead something which J John said to us in the leaders meeting before hand.

He was talking about how everyone should be involved in evangelism but how we are not all evangelists. I have herd this before of course but it has never really made a great deal of sense to me. I have always understood that we are not all evangelists but how do the two go together.

The analogy he used has certainly made things clearer to me so I thought I would share it here.

He likened your average Jo Christian to a witness in a legal case. It is our job to provide evidence of Christ to people around us through what we say and how we live our lives. It is the evangelist�s job to be a lawyer; to bring all the evidence together and to sum up the case.

I really liked this description and am going to explore a little further what affect that might have on me and on the people around me.

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