Sharing God’s Love

Luke 10:1-2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.

It is commonly thought that an evangelist is someone who has a passion to lead people to the Lord, but they are not alone in this call. Every believer should have a passion for souls. When presenting the Gospel, we are not just presenting a theory about God but the factual account of His dealings with mankind as revealed in His Word. The ultimate witness to the truth is the bodily resurrection of Jesus. Our personal witness of the reality of Jesus being alive in our lives brings Him from theory to reality.

The early Christians experienced the love of Jesus in an intimate and life-transforming way. This motivated them to reach their known world with the Gospel more than any generation of Christians since. They didn’t have the benefits of our modern technology, but they did have the benefit of being full of the love of Christ. Experiencing the love of Christ causes us to be filled with the fullness of God (Eph. 3:19) and makes us a witness that the world cannot resist. (John 13:35.)

Today, churches emphasize techniques of evangelism or spiritual warfare. We motivate people to witness through guilt or the threat of punishment. Much of our evangelism has become as dead and non-productive as that of the cults who knock on doors and argue people into their way of thinking.

The early Christians had a much greater impact on their world because they were full of and motivated by the love of God. We need that in our churches today! When we can say with Paul that the love of Christ constrains us, then we will impact our world for the Lord too.

You can’t give away what you don’t possess. You need to personally know the love of Christ in an experiential way before you try to share it with others.