{"id":71596,"date":"2024-01-15T13:31:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T19:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=71596"},"modified":"2024-02-08T11:29:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T17:29:01","slug":"must-every-christian-evangelize-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=71596","title":{"rendered":"Must Every Christian Evangelize?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Church members sometimes wonder if they should just leave evangelism to the \u201cprofessionals.\u201d After all, isn\u2019t evangelism a spiritual gift?<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">In this article I offer a quick guide for pastors to know how to answer them.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Answering Two Common Arguments<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Must every Christian evangelize? The scriptural answer is \u201cyes.\u201d But I have encountered two main reasons for why some argue the answer is \u201cno.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p aria-level=\"4\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Great Commission Was Only Given to the Apostles and Therefore Does Not Apply to Us Today<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">First, some argue that the Great Commission was only given to the apostles and therefore does not apply to us today. While it is true that contextually the Great Commission (Matt. 28:18\u201320) was given <span data-contrast=\"none\">to<span data-contrast=\"none\"> the apostles, it was not <span data-contrast=\"none\">only <span data-contrast=\"none\">for<span data-contrast=\"none\"> the apostles. The command \u201cteaching them to observe all that I have commanded you\u201d certainly includes the command to make disciples. D.A. Carson notes that the Great Commission does not record Jesus saying to the apostles, \u201c.\u202f.\u202f.\u202fteaching them to obey everything I have commanded you, except for this commandment to make disciples. Keep their grubby hands off that one, since<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church members sometimes wonder if they should just leave evangelism to the \u201cprofessionals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":879,"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-71596","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\/71596","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\/879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71598,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71596\/revisions\/71598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}