Evangelism Seminar: Session 2

In light of discussing last week that every person is on some sort of spiritual journey, and, that as people who personally know God through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, we are called to be agents of truth, this week we talked more about how that is to happen. As followers of Christ, what we should be seeking to grow in is being people where spiritual conversation happens naturally. As different people float into our lives, learning how to be people who love like Christ, how to seek to know where that person is at on their journey with God, and continuing to journey with them is are what it takes to be effective in evangelism. We talked about how to listen, serve, notice and wonder our way into spiritual conversations.

Conversation occurred around the idea of serving our ways into spiritual conversation. Everyone knows who Mother Theresa was, and she is perhaps many people's answer to what does it mean to be a Christian. While this could be a a conversation worth initiating with anyone about why this is, we can't argue with how kindness and service is communicated in people's lives. As we seek to serve people around us, in meaningful ways,with no strings attached, people will open up spiritually.

“The social gospel divorced from personal salvation is like a body without a soul. The message of personal salvation without a social dimension is like a soul without a body. The former is a corpse; the latter is a ghost”- E. Stanley Jones

What we need to focus on is bringing the whole gospel, to the whole person.

What I am not saying is that we have to earn our way into sharing the gospel with someone. I think we can all read the Bible and see that many people have come to faith with a simple gospel presentation, as an evangelist met them in a divine way. But I do think it can

Check out this website for more ideas of serving people to spiritual conversation: Servantevangelism.com