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THE IMPORTANCE OF PERSONAL EVANGELISM

by Scott Maze

Scripture: Romans 1:8-19


The Importance of Personal Evangelism
Scott Maze
Romans 1:8-17


What you have just seen is incredible. This is a public baptism in a nation in SE Asia where other believers have been run out of their village and their homes burned to the ground. This husband and father has recently come to know the Lord after someone personally shared the gospel with him many times. This man came to know Christ after our teams shared the gospel with his wife in combination with local believers. He came to know the Lord after one family from our church spent nearly 15 years sharing the gospel in the area. This past month, he has taken down his Buddhist idols to embrace the Lord Jesus Christ! Our friend has asked us to pray for a church to be planted and by the grace of God, I now have the privilege of telling you the church has been planted!

Today, I want to speak to you about the importance of developing the regular habit of personal evangelism. My question for each one of you is this: Who's Your One? Please find the book of Romans with me, will you? All this year, we are focusing on this question: Who's Your One? Mr. Believer and Mrs. Believer, who is the one person the Lord is putting in your life to share the message of the gospel? Who's Your One? Again, this is our focus for 2020 and you are going to want to be a part of this because some lives are going to be changed! For 2020, I want to challenge you and to empower you to be a life-changer and difference-maker. All this year, we are challenging you to have a conversation focused on the gospel - a gospel conversation.

Romans 1 is our focus today. Paul writes the introduction to one the greatest letters you'll find anywhere. He follows the conventional format of how you would open up a letter of his day. Except he makes one important change - where most people would have said something to the effect, ''I hope this letter finds you healthy...'' ...or, ''I hope your business is doing extremely well...' ...

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