Abundant Life: Speaking for Jesus - Towards More Effective Evangelism

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A Conversation Leading To Conversion - John 1:43-51

Many Christians I have met through the years have an unjustified fear of talking to others about the Bible or, specifically, Jesus Christ. Many have told me that they are afraid they will not know what to say, some have told me they don’t know where to start, and others still have told me they are simply “too busy” to take out the time to teach a lost soul. Too busy? But I believe that these are, for the most part, simply poor excuses for avoiding what is not such a dreadful experience, after all. From all indications, the unnecessary fear is simply the result of rarely or - in far too many cases - never sitting down and talking to others about their soul.

Evangelism Moves from Acts 8 to Acts 17

Many of us are familiar with the wonderful conversion story of the Ethiopian eunuch as found in Acts 8. Philip is put in the path of the Ethiopian by God hears him reading the Bible (v. 28), joins the man and proceeds to build on the Ethiopian’s already present knowledge and faith which moves him to be baptized (v. 39). It is not only a great story, it has become in many ways a model for our evangelism efforts today. Around us we find people who are religious, or semi-religious, and who have some Bible knowledge. We see our task as building on what they know, and correcting wrong ideas, so as to bring them to conversion.