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Intentional Evangelism

“I am going to share Christ.”

Adopt a mind-set that says, “I’m going to be continually on the alert for someone with whom I might share the Gospel.” Being a faithful witness and seeking to introduce others to Jesus Christ involves:

 A frame of mind—that you are going to share Christ every time the Lord give you an opportunity.

A focused concentration—that you continually will be on the alert for someone with whom you might converse about the Lord Jesus.

A purpose—that all of your words and deeds will be aimed at leading a person to a personal relationship with the Lord.

Catching fish doesn’t happen by accident. Fish don’t just leap out of a pond or lake and land on your doorstep 15 miles away. To catch fish you must decide that you are going fishing. A fisherman sets his or her mind and heart toward that activity and puts himself into position to catch fish.

Sharing your life in Christ is a choice of your will. It’s intending to win others to Him. It’s setting your face and your life toward that activity. It’s making a total commitment to Christ and His kingdom purposes. It’s deciding to become a faithful witness.

All the people I know who have been used of God in personal evangelism have expected to discover interested people.  In any group of people or in conversation with any particular individual they ask, “Lord is this one in whom you are working?”  Then as the Spirit leads, they proceed to test the waters.

You set your heart, and your will, toward winning others to Christ. And when you do, the Lord will direct your specific steps, setting up individual encounters for you and putting people into your path whose hearts are prepared to accept the message you have to give.

When you take that out-of-town business trip, expect to come home and tell your family about those ministry encounters and the “fish” you caught. When you go into a store, expect to share Christ with someone. When you eat at a restaurant, expect to open a conversation with the waitress or waiter about the Lord.

If, indeed, you have been praying in faith that God would use you to win others to Him, why wouldn’t the Lord cause people to gravitate your way? Isn’t He able to cause them…

...to take a different route home so their path will intersect with yours?

...to stop to pick up a loaf of bread in the same store you’ve stopped at for a gallon of milk?

...to be called in to work to do a double shift just so they’ll be on your same shift?

...to be the clerk who responds to you in a store that’s filled with dozens of clerks.

...to come to the airport and get you as a passenger, rather than any of a thousand other travelers?

We need to be doers of the Word of God (James 1).  We are deceiving ourselves if we don’t do the Word.  Some people are just dreamers.  Like a boy in high school that dreams about having a date, but doesn’t do anything about it.  You have to do more than dream.  You have to put your “want to” into action.

Evangelism is an attitude, a mind-set. When we wake up in the morning, we need to say to God, "I'm Yours today to use in whatever way possible." When we make ourselves available to God, He will bring people to us.