12/06/2020 – Day 203 – Colossians 3 – 4 // Lifestyle Evangelism
Just coming off Proverbs this past week, once again we are presented with the lifestyle evangelism imperative for all Christians. Verses 4: 2-4: “Continue earnestly in prayer , being vigilant in it with thanksgiving; menwhile praying also for us, that God would open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in chains, that I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.”
And my footnote to those verses: “Paul asks the Colossian church to pray that God would open doors to opportunity for hinm to evangelize. Reaching out to the unsaved was the apostle’s number one priority (see Romans 9: 1-3) He often uses the phrase “as I ought to speak.” He didn’t see evangelism as a ministry only for people with a ‘gift’ to reach the unsaved, he saw it as a moral responsibility, as each of us should. The only ‘gift’ we need for evangelizing is the Holy Spirit, and every born-again believer has received Him.
Soli Deo Gloria!