Mission of the evangelism disciple
Acts 1:14 They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers. (14)
Hymn for scheduled worship: Korean/English Hymnal #539 Go, Carry Thy Burden to Jesus (#483 in previous version)
It is a blessing of blessings to have an evangelism disciple near you to share your heart for evangelism. However, we are losing hold of this blessing due to conflicts. In order to solve interpersonal relationships or problems due to the spiritual state of losing hold of the Gospel, it is important to overcome the conflict first. Moreover, your attitude towards that conflict is the color of your faith, the size of your vessel, and your prayer. Remember that the conflict was given to you from God. It is the plan of God that will make you into the vessel that can hold blessings. There is something you need to experience in order to renew yourself before a conflict comes.
1. Experience the Gospel
If you know and believe Jesus Christ, you receive salvation. However, God desires for us to transcend the level of simply knowing the Gospel and to experience Jesus Christ through our lives and in spirit. The place in which you can experience this most quickly is the evangelism field. Peter who confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the son of the living God, was praised the most by Jesus, but he denied Jesus three times and ran away. Nevertheless, Peter was able to stand as a true evangelism disciple, because he met the resurrected Jesus and experienced the presence of the Holy Spirit. If you do not experience the Gospel, then you cannot overcome conflicts even though you have already received the Gospel.
2. Experience the mission
A person who has experienced the Gospel comes to know what his mission from God is. If your values and the main and secondary priorities change in the Gospel, you can realize the reason for your calling and your commission. Having this mission is a very important part of living your life of faith. God gave missions about the kingdom of God and filling of the Holy Spirit to disciples who realized that Jesus is the Christ (Acts 1:1~8), and the Holy Spirit came upon Mark’s upper room as they waited with prayer holding on to the Word, disciples gathered, and they were used as evangelism disciples who changed the field. If you have the renewal to overcome conflicts and the continuous prayer of holding on to the Word and your mission, then you will enjoy the blessings of God in your life like the disciples of the Early Church.
- What is the conflict that we must overcome in order to go into the blessing of the evangelism disciple? Meditate on what we must renew and what the mission is for the circumstance that we are in as an evangelism disciple.
Evangelism Disciple Message / 2011.8.23