{"id":71247,"date":"2024-02-05T23:23:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T05:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=71247"},"modified":"2024-02-05T23:25:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T05:25:24","slug":"why-people-in-your-church-dont-do-evangelism-and-one-really-important-thing-to-do-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=71247","title":{"rendered":"Why People in Your Church Don\u2019t Do Evangelism\u2014and One Really Important Thing to Do About It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">If you\u2019re a faithful pastor, you want to see people in your church growing in the knowledge of God (Col. <span data-contrast=\"none\">1:10,<span data-contrast=\"none\">\u202f<span data-contrast=\"none\">28). You also want to see your neighbors come to know God, and your people do too. They sincerely want to know God and make him known (Matt. <span data-contrast=\"none\">28:18\u201320).<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">But even though many Christians at your church genuinely want to make God known, they struggle in evangelism.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Have you ever wondered why that is? Some of your people want to share the gospel, they just don\u2019t know how. Others may try to share the gospel, but they fear man, fumble over their words, and clam up altogether. Some of your other members might (wrongly) think evangelism is a task for the extroverts or the church staff.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">At worst, if they\u2019re honest some of your people simply don\u2019t desire to share the gospel. Maybe they\u2019ve been too busy with their own lives to think about someone else\u2019s eternal state; maybe they\u2019re embarrassed about God\u2019s justice and goodness in judging sinners. Whatever the case may be, folks in your church are <span data-contrast=\"none\">not<span data-contrast=\"none\"> sharing the gospel for a host of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though many Christians at your church genuinely want to make God known, they struggle in evangelism.\u00a0Have you ever wondered why that is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":885,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[321],"class_list":["post-71247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-evangelism-gospel","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/885"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71249,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71247\/revisions\/71249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}