70% or more (worldwide) in queue – Do you have the capacity to deliver?

David Geisler & Norman Geisler in their book ‘Conversational Evangelism’ beautifully defined Evangelism this way, “Evangelism is every day and, in every way, helping your non-believing friends to take one step closer to Jesus Christ.”. Apostle Paul in the book to Corinthians writes, “Yet preaching the good news is not something I can boast about. I am compelled by God to do it. How terrible for me if I didn’t preach the Good News! . . . for God has given me this sacred trust.”. (1 Corinthians 9:16-17) NLT. Mind, this obligation is not confined to any particular group of people, we all are responsible. R. Stanley from Blessing Youth Mission emphasizes by saying, ‘Every heart without Christ is a missionary field and every heart with Christ is a missionary force.’. He further challenges by saying, ‘every Non-Christian funeral is the missionary call.’. 

Let me point out couple of hurdles that stand out when we are trying to reach the Non-Christian. 1) Most of the time we are lost in the fellowship of believers that we aren’t thinking to reach out to the Non-Christians. 2) It is seen in many Christians, including senior leaders, in order to reach the people with the gospel they quickly rush in abruptly and witness adverse results. 3) The other crucial area of barrier is when it is seen Christians are only familiar with Christian worldview and completely ignorant of other worldviews and this complicates the whole deal of delivering the gospel effectively. 

“When we are confronted with other world view we do not have adequate resources to equip ourselves because we are in love with this gospel in an emotional way when we also have to be committed in an intellectual way”.” Krish Dhanam. A professor from Oxford University once said ‘The good news is only the good news when people think their lives are bad.' How are we going to address this?

‘We should be careful not to burn our bridges and make the task of another Christian who comes after us more difficult. Rather we should talk to our non believing friends in a way that they actually want to learn more about our faith.”. Conversational Evangelism throws good amount of light by providing different perspective on Evangelism. The book further comments by saying, ‘We may have to till the ground before we have the opportunity to plant a seed. We are not called to bring all persons to Christ but simply to bring Christ to all persons.’.

First, we need to redefine what we mean by evangelism. Most of us have been taught that evangelism is “proclaiming the Good News and inviting others to trust Christ.” Yet, a valuable element is missing in that definition. The missing element is simply that evangelism is a process. The apostle Paul said, “I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow” (1 Corinthians 3:6). You and I may not be able in one conversation to share the entire Gospel with our non believing friends and then invite them to trust Christ. But we may be able to help them take a step closer to the cross with each encounter.

Possible suggestions; You may add more to the list,

*Build relationship with Non-believers in order to deliver the Good News effectively.

*Get to know other worldviews by picking good books or attending seminars.

*Stop using Biblical terminologies while relating with Non-Christian.

*Stop concentrating to write articles and messages for Christian group exclusively. If you have the     gift, start addressing general topics connecting to eternity and address common crowd.

*Do not force people to come to Church. It may disrupt your efforts. (The Bible says “Prepare your   work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.”. Proverbs 24:27)

Blessings.

References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations