I love to evangelize and I have seen, used, and taught many different ways to evangelize. Evangelism is simply sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ with another person. Living morally, "upright", and doing good will not tell others about Jesus, ever. We must proclaim the gospel and tell people about Jesus. My best friend and brother in Christ, Bobby Upchurch, and I try to evangelize together at the least once a week. We go door-to-door, to parks, or just where ever we are.
“We want to share a method that we have found to be the most useful in day-to-day evangelism. Nonetheless, we want to preface that by saying two things. One, we fail at evangelism everyday by not sharing our faith. Two, evangelism is not about memorizing what to say; it is about loving people enough to say something. You will always be a failure when it comes to evangelism if you feel that it is an obligatory task. We’re called to love people enough to share the only truth that will save their lives. We’re not called to add evangelism to our “feel better about ourselves check-list". We’re not even called to save people. The Holy Spirit convicts and saves. We have the great privilege, however, of being used as His mouth pieces. We share Jesus…period (Matthew 28:18-20) But we can never lose sight of our call to love the lost. Jesus does.” – Bobby Upchurch
We simply evangelize through questions. Following are questions meant only to help guide your conversation toward the gospel. They are not required to be asked in a particular order or at all. First things first, make sure you know the gospel and pray before you go out to intentionally evangelize.
Questions:
1.) Do you have time to answer some questions? (This question is not needed of course if you are already talking to someone)
2.) What is your spiritual background? (This question is for your benefit because it tells you about the person you are talking to and what they believe and where to take the conversation. An alternate question for this if you are already in a conversation is “Do you go to a church anywhere in the area?” These questions also tell you how open the person is going to be with this topic.)
3.) Do you believe in Heaven or Hell and if so what determines a person to go to one or the other besides dying? (Ask this question even if the person is an Atheist. If the person is an Atheist you could rephrase the question to say, “If there is a Heaven and Hell…”. This question, no matter who the person is, what they believe in detail. Religion is man’s attempt to get to God/Heaven. Jesus is the only way. He died because no one can do anything to be saved, get to Heaven, or be with God forever.)
4.) Do you know who Jesus is? What do you think about Jesus? (This causes the conversation to turn one of two ways. Either the conversation will end or the conversation will become lively. The Holy Spirit is the only who can save people and convict people. Your job is to simply share the gospel.
5.) What do you think about what Jesus said in John 14:6? Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me. (During question 4 many people will say something along the lines of “Jesus was a great teacher” or “He was a great prophet” or something along those lines. When you ask this question about John 14:6 it forcing the person to take their beliefs to its logical end. This is an exclusive claim that Jesus made that is going to reveal in that persons heart that they either agree with Jesus or hate Him.)
6.) Would you like to know more about Jesus? (At this point, it is very easy to approach them with the full gospel. In all of this, be in continuous prayer and sensitive to what the Holy Spirit is saying and wanting. Distractions, debates, or arguments may occur. We do no want any part in debates or arguments. It is one thing to answer questions if they have legitimate questions, but if it moves into a fruitless debate or argument, then you have left the mission field.)
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