"Everything we do, we don't do to get saved. We do because we are saved." - Pastor Tom
Episode Summary:
How can we evangelize God's word, and WHO should be evangelizing? This week JB and Pastor Tom share examples of God's healing and how they have shared God's word throughout the world. Find strength in your fellow Christians, and in your Lord, and spread his word without fear.
In today's episode:
- Focusing on the things you can't see with your earthly eyes.
- What is evangelism?
- God did not send his on to condemn, but to save.
- How to know a true evangelizer from false believers.
- Becoming a vessel of God.
- Why evangelizing is for everyone.
- Receiving the Holy Spirit.
- The first steps to evangelism.
- Accepting rejection, and having a willingness to spread God's word.
About Pastor Thomas Lingenfelter:
Pastor Thomas Lingenfelter has been on the path of the Lord for 48 years, spending time ministering, and evangelizing in Central and South America for 19 years. For the past 12 years Pastor Tom has been the lead Pastor at The Eagle's Nest Ministries church in St. Louis, MO. Together with his wife, Pastor Tom has founded churches in Honduras, and El Salvador, and provides coverage to a church in India.
Pastor Tom and his wife Lidia are an active part of the organization Central Youth Outreach, which supports children's projects with soup kitchens, support for orphanages and preaching the gospel in schools and colleges through the project Rescuing Principles and Values through Jesus.
They also direct the Schools of Evangelistic Training and Prophetic Training and oversee the teaching of Various Diplomas.
Weekly Scripture(s):
- Mark 11:15-18 On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, (16) and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. (17) And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’ ” (18) The chief priests and the teachers of the law heard this and began looking for a way to kill him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.
- 1 Corinthians 12:7-11 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. (8) To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, (9) to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, (10) to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. (11) All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.
- Psalm 107:20 He sent out his word and healed them; he rescued them from the grave.
- Matthew 28:19-20 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, (20) and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
- John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- Jeremiah 30:17 But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds, declares the Lord, ‘because you are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares.’
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