Jesus and evangelism

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joshhuntnm

joshhuntnm

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I have been thinking about Jesus and evangelism. It occurs to me that Jesus never did what we encourage people to do in evangelism: go to strangers and tell them how to go to heaven when they die. Jesus never led people to pray a simple prayer and promised they would go to heaven on the basis of that prayer.

It seems what he did do is tell people to follow him followed by massive amounts of teaching.

What do you observe about the evangelism and Jesus?
 
maxwel

maxwel

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joshhuntnm said:
I have been thinking about Jesus and evangelism. It occurs to me that Jesus never did what we encourage people to do in evangelism: go to strangers and tell them how to go to heaven when they die. Jesus never led people to pray a simple prayer and promised they would go to heaven on the basis of that prayer.

It seems what he did do is tell people to follow him followed by massive amounts of teaching.

What do you observe about the evangelism and Jesus?
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We tell people how to accept, and receive, the finished sacrifice of Christ.

Jesus could NOT tell people how to receive his finished sacrifice, because...
IT WASN'T FINISHED.
HE HADN'T DIED FOR THEM YET... THERE WAS NO SACRIFICE YET TO RECEIVE.
 
crossnote

crossnote

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Mark 5:18-20 And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.
And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.

He went to the demoniac with legions of spirits, healed him and sent him off to tell others rather than physically follow Him.
 
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