Love Your Neighbor: Evangelism in our day

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Love Your Neighbor Evangelism in our day

• Rudy Rivera
• December 17, 2006

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Love Your Neighbor Evangelism in our dayRudy
Rivera

• That if you confess with your mouth, Jesus
  is Lord, and believe in your heart that God
  raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For
  it is with your heart that you believe and are
  justified, and it is with your mouth that you
  confess and are saved. As the Scripture says,
  "Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to
  shame." For there is no difference between Jew
  and Gentilethe same Lord is Lord of all and
  richly blesses all who call on him, for,
  Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will
  be saved.
• How, then, can they call on the one they have
  not believed in? And how can they believe in the
  one of whom they have not heard? And how can they
  hear without someone preaching to them? And how
  can they preach unless they are sent? As it is
  written, How beautiful are the feet of those who
  bring good news!
• But not all the Israelites accepted the good
  news. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed
  our message?
• Consequently, faith comes from hearing the
  message, and the message is heard through the
  word of Christ. - Romans 109-17

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Love Your Neighbor Evangelism in our dayRudy
Rivera

• The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbours
  glory should be laid on my back, a load so heavy
  that only humility can carry it, and the backs of
  the proud will be broken.  It is a serious thing
  to live in a society of possible gods and
  goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most
  uninteresting person you can talk to may one day
  be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would
  be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror
  and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all,
  only in a nightmare.  All day long we are, in
  some degree, helping each other to one or other
  of these destinations.  It is in the light of
  these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the
  awe and the circumspection proper to them, that
  we should conduct all our dealings with one
  another, all friendships, all loves, all play,
  all politics.  There are no ordinary people.  You
  have never talked to a mere mortal.  Nations,
  cultures, arts, civilisations--these are
  mortal,... But it is immortals whom we joke with,
  work with, marry, snub, and exploit--immortal
  horrors or everlasting splendours. 
• - exerpt from C.S. Lewis, Weight of Glory

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Love Your Neighbor Evangelism in our dayRudy
Rivera

• For Christ's love compels us, because we are
  convinced that one died for all, and therefore
  all died. And he died for all, that those who
  live should no longer live for themselves but for
  him who died for them and was raised again.
• So from now on we regard no one from a
  worldly point of view. Though we once regarded
  Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
  creation the old has gone, the new has come! All
  this is from God, who reconciled us to himself
  through Christ and gave us the ministry of
  reconciliation that God was reconciling the
  world to himself in Christ, not counting men's
  sins against them. And he has committed to us the
  message of reconciliation. We are therefore
  Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making
  his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's
  behalf Be reconciled to God. God made him who
  had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we
  might become the righteousness of God.
• - 2 Corinthians 514-21

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Love Your Neighbor Evangelism in our dayRudy
Rivera

• 1 The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,
        because the LORD has anointed me       to
  preach good news to the poor.       He has sent
  me to bind up the brokenhearted       to
  proclaim freedom for the captives       and
  release from darkness for the prisoners,
• 2 to proclaim the year of the LORDs favor      
  and the day of vengeance of our God,       to
  comfort all who mourn
• - Isaiah 611-2