Monday, November 27, 2006
Personal Evangelism, Lesson Four
As you study with people, leading them to Christ in baptism, it's not over. It has been our experience that a great deal of continual follow up is necessary. If you think about it, they may be several years old, yet babes in Christ. New converts need and deserve a great deal of follow up. New converts need encouragement, relationship and fellowship. Fellowship is "belonging-ship". In Mark10:28-30, the scripture reads, then Peter began to say unto Him Lo we have left all and have followed you. And Jesus answered and said, verily I say unto you there is no man that hath left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for my sake and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands with persecutions and in the world to come eternal life. Many times when people become christians, they leave their old friends, their old ways, their old places now they need someone. We want to belong. We christians are their new family. We want to make sure we are extending brotherly love. Remember. love unshown is love unknown. For those we lead to the Lord let's make sure they know they belong. Can we give them something to do? Remember them in followship dinners. We need to find something all can do and know they are a part of the church's success in out reach. I may not be qualified to teach or lead singing or serve in a leadership position, but the church has work that I may be able to do in the building or in the yard. When we are asked to serve in some way, don't we feel better? The church is my new family. The church is the body of Christ and as a new convert, I want to feel and know I am a real part of it. Don
As you study with people, leading them to Christ in baptism, it's not over. It has been our experience that a great deal of continual follow up is necessary. If you think about it, they may be several years old, yet babes in Christ. New converts need and deserve a great deal of follow up. New converts need encouragement, relationship and fellowship. Fellowship is "belonging-ship". In Mark10:28-30, the scripture reads, then Peter began to say unto Him Lo we have left all and have followed you. And Jesus answered and said, verily I say unto you there is no man that hath left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for my sake and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands with persecutions and in the world to come eternal life. Many times when people become christians, they leave their old friends, their old ways, their old places now they need someone. We want to belong. We christians are their new family. We want to make sure we are extending brotherly love. Remember. love unshown is love unknown. For those we lead to the Lord let's make sure they know they belong. Can we give them something to do? Remember them in followship dinners. We need to find something all can do and know they are a part of the church's success in out reach. I may not be qualified to teach or lead singing or serve in a leadership position, but the church has work that I may be able to do in the building or in the yard. When we are asked to serve in some way, don't we feel better? The church is my new family. The church is the body of Christ and as a new convert, I want to feel and know I am a real part of it. Don
# posted by Missions with Don&Rosemary @ 4:26 PM 
