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weepingprophet15
Evangelizing the Lost...?
I noticed you blocked me after I asked a question about your calling as an evangelist (which you haven't answered). If you were a true evangelist called of God you would KNOW that "blocking" or preventing another Christian from access to you and your so-called gift is a sin. The Scripture?
1 Corinthians 12:24-25 (KJV)
24 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:
25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
God tempers the Body TOGETHER, but your blocking my access to your so-called "gift" as an evangelist is working AGAINST God's will. Nor are you showing "care for another" believer.
Another thing is the exercise of your so-called gift as evangelist. Why do you cast your pearl before swine? The evangelist is not called to the world (unbelievers), but to the Body of Christ. Take note:
Ephesians 4:11-12 (KJV)
11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
The evangelist is NOT for the perfecting of the world
The evangelist is NOT for the edification of the body of the world.
And another thing...ALL CHRISTIANS are to live their lives with men as peaceably as possible and to always be ready to give an answer to those that ask of the hope in you with meekness and fear (respect). Instead, you block me. You don't obey the Word and give an answer to those (me) that asked of the hope in you.
Now, I ask again.
Who called you to be an evangelist in the Body of Christ?
Describe the event of your calling.
If you are an evangelist, then why don't you OBEY your Lord and minister to the Body of Christ as the Scripture says in Ephesians 4:12 and perfect THEM (believers), and edify THEM (believers) instead of the world?
Your blocking me from responding on your questions here works AGAINST God whose will is to temper the Body TOGETHER and give me access to your gift as you are given access to my gift.
Another thing...who are the "lost" as the Bible describes and teaches they are?
8 AnswersReligion & Spirituality8 years agoTO ALL TRUE BORN AGAIN BIBLICAL CHRISTIANS?
Why do you stumble and stutter and exasperate yourself when asked to prove that God exists to people here and on the street that ask you? That is God's responsibility, not yours. The burden of proof as to whether or not God exists is not yours to prove. That belongs squarely on God to do. All you can do is testify and witness the things that God has done with regard to His proving TO YOU that He exists and leave the questions you cannot answer left unanswered. You are not going to save anyone. That is God's realm, not yours. Stay within your "measure of faith" which means to stay within the parameters of what you know as true and do not venture beyond that boundary of inter-personal knowledge of your experience. God will either use your testimony of the truth or He will not. He, after all, opens the blind eye or He closes their eyes and hardens their heart against Him just as He did with Pharaoh. God has given general knowledge of His existence in the natural world around us as witnessed by the stars at night or the natural environment around us. Just as a wristwatch evidences the existence of a watch-maker, so to does the natural world around and above and below us evidence the existence of a Creator. It is up to the individual to either receive or reject this evidence in nature, but to go about and attempt to prove God exists is a matter of personal experience an no further. When asked, tell what had happen to you and let that witness speak for itself. But to prove that God exists is not your responsibility or burden to prove. It belongs to God. Be thankful that He has revealed Himself to YOU and leave it at that. Let God deal with mankind in whatever way He desires and wills, because as God has said through the apostle Paul:
Romans 9:14-16 (KJV)
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
and Paul said elsewhere:
Romans 9:18-24 (KJV)
18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Keep YOUR EYES on God, and not man, and let God do what He will with His own creation.
2 AnswersReligion & Spirituality8 years ago