THE MOST EFFECTIVE TOOL IN EVANGELISM
“Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.” 1 Peter 2:12 NIV
Many times believers attempt to evangelize to those who don’t yet believe by almost hammering a Bible over their heads. But there is little power in what we say if we do not first live what we profess.
Our theme scripture puts it simply: live such a good a life that no accusation can stand in the face of your conduct. And sometimes that is all that’s needed, hence why scripture encourages us to ‘bear fruit’. Your actions speak volumes, more than your words can ever say.
Someone can speak much but do little, and they will be shunned for such. Someone can speak little but do much and their reputation will always precede them.
Child of God, evangelism is not first a sermon from our lips, but a sermon from our lives.
The world is not moved by how loudly we declare truth, but by how consistently we embody it. When patience answers insult, when integrity stands where compromise is easier, when kindness flows without applause, people begin to see the gospel before they ever hear it.
Fruit does not argue for the existence of a tree—it simply proves it. Your conduct is often the first Bible someone will read. Your mercy, your honesty, your gentleness under pressure, your refusal to repay evil for evil: these preach Christ more clearly than many words ever could. Let this be true of us as it was of Jesus. Hallelujah!
Prayer: My Father, I thank you for this wisdom. I thank you for making me your vessel of choice through your holy spirit and cultivating its fruit in and through my life. May it be said of me that I was spent and dispensed as a sweet smelling aroma of God to those who hunger and thirst for you, in Jesus name. Amen!
CI.
RELATED RESOURCES
• Matthew 5:16
• 1 Thessalonians 1:8
• Galatians 5:22
