Note: This is a guest post by Dan Cartwright. He’s been a brother who has been iron sharpening iron with us on here and social media for years. His blog can be found here. He also tweets.
What follows below is part two of a two part series! The first post was on Monday.
Starting a Conversation
In a previous post titled “What is Evangelism?”, the following definition of what it means ‘to evangelize’ was presented:
To evangelize is to present Christ Jesus to sinful people in order that, through the power of the Holy Spirit, they may come to put their trust in God through Him.”
The article proposed that this definition defined four important aspects of personal evangelism:
- It defines the mission of the evangelist– “to present Christ”.
- It defines theprimary audience for the gospel message – “sinful people”.
- It defines the problem the gospel message addresses – “our sin”.
- It defines the power behind both the gospel message and the response to that message – the Holy Spirit, thus establishing the sovereignty of God in the salvation of men.
Armed with the above definition, and with a burden for a lost loved one, friend, or even a perfect stranger, you are ready to go. How does it start?
The Domain for Truth 