If you are a Christian then you are an Evangelist, so go Evangelize and Encourage

If you are a Christian then you are an evangelist and if you are an evangelist that means you are a voice and source of encouragement not discouragement. I will give an example, if you are talking to someone who is going through a troubling time in their life and they seem to have given up completely and feel that all is lost as overcoming this situation is impossible, as a Christian would you agree and continue to tear them down with decaying words that confirm the bleakness of their situation or would you as a Christian in the spirit of the Great Commission begin to lift them up with the Living Word of God? Surely as a Christian you would not call them a pathetic failure or a whinny loser who cannot survive in the real world, after all these are not words that one would find in the Gospel of Christ for us to use when speaking to each other. What we must realize is that as Christians we are always in the commission of an evangelist spreading the uplifting and overwhelming power of the Living Word of God not just to people we don’t know but to those that are closes to us. The main point I am making is that as Christians we cannot go out and evangelize to people and lift them up out of their problems in the Living Word of God if we are not doing the same thing to those we are close to who may have a similar or the same problem, if one does this it makes one a hypocrite because if the Word is good and working for a stranger then is it not the same for the ones in our lives? For example a Christian husband cannot evangelize to another woman about her addiction and how God can deliver her from this but at the same time tell his wife with the same addiction she is hopeless. The Bible tells us; ‘You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ’ 2 Timothy 2.3. This applies to everyone not just to those we just met but to those we have known for a while. If you are a Christian you are an evangelist which makes you an encourager to everyone in and at all times but never the source of calamity at anytime. We must remember that saving someone is as simple as what we say and do therefore never forget; The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, And he who wins souls is wise, Proverbs 11.30. In closing you never know what you are being asked to do for God but always know that as a Christian we are to be in the spirit of Matthew 5.13-14 (Salt and Light of the earth).
God Bless.

Pastor LaVaughn R. Carter
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