11: God’s Strategy For Civil Conquest 2 of 7 - WITNESS

No nation can become a Christian nation unless a critical mass of people come to know Jesus Christ personally as their Savior and Lord. Therefore, the second of God’s seven strategies – WITNESS!

Christians must become witnesses - everywhere witnessing for Christ. We must be engaged with Jesus’s mission to save souls in our cities. Only with a critical mass of genuine Christians can we transform a city or nation for the glory of God and fulfill Jesus’s Great Commission.

No spiritual leader can fulfill His charge He has been given to do from the Lord if he does not “do the work of an evangelist.” This is the Lord’s charge to every spiritual leader “in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus” (2 Tim. 4:1-5):

“I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.”

Spiritual leaders that only teach and don’t do the work of an evangelist are not fulfilling their ministry or charge from God and Christ Jesus. Here are the reasons why a spiritual leader does not do the work of an evangelist:

* Paul said, “do the work…” Work is hard. Who wants to do hard work? But that’s why Paul prefaced the command – “endure hardship, do the work…”

* Here’s the big excuse – “I don’t have the gift of an evangelist.” But Paul didn’t say be an evangelist but to do the work of an evangelist – the work of going out and WITNESSING for Christ! Go out to the lost and tell them the Good News. Every Christian can do that, and every spiritual leader is charged in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus to do that work to FULFILL their ministry!

Jesus said, “everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be LIKE his teacher” (Luke 6:40). He will NOT say everyone will be like the teaching but like the teacher. Congregations are not witnessing to the lost because their spiritual leaders are not out witnessing to the lost. It all starts with leaders – LEADING!

Then spiritual leaders can and will equip all their flock to witness.

Church Leaders Are To Equip

What did the apostle Paul command church leaders to do (Eph. 4:12):

“Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do His work and build up the church, the body of Christ.”