Start with guidance of the Holy Spirit
Acts 2:42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
Hymn for scheduled worship: Korean/English Hymnal #496 Sowing in the Morning (#260 in previous version)
The most important thing as you live the life of the evangelist is holding on to the Word of the church pulpit message. The Early Church also lived the life of the evangelist by devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. If you can record the Word from the pulpit and meditate on it every day, then great healing will occur. Furthermore, you can hold on to correct prayer topics in the midst of the pulpit message and discover the reason to live. If you hold on to the Word of God correctly and begin to pray, then you will receive the important guidance of the Holy Spirit. So, how can we hold on to the church pulpit message and live the life of the evangelist?
1. Together, we must make rules of receiving the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
The spiritual food called the pulpit message is similar to kneading dough with our prayer. We mix this dough with the oil of the Holy Spirit. This is when you come to life. Because this is a spiritual battle, it may be hard to do alone. That is why we need a team to check each other on the life of the evangelist and have forum together. When we make teams according to occupation, level, and circumstances and set rules, we can realistically check on how well we are living the life of the evangelist.
2. Together, we must examine how we are receiving the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
The most important thing in living the life of the evangelist is the guidance of the Holy Spirit. It is a good idea to set rules about how you can receive the guidance of the Holy Spirit correctly with the Word, prayer, and evangelism in your daily life. With these rules, you must check up on each other on how well you are following the rules, have forum and pray. The disciples and the Early Church who received the filling of the Holy Spirit on the day of the Pentecost also devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
3. The level of receiving the guidance of Holy Spirit must continuously improve.
As we live the life of the evangelist in teams, our level and standards of receiving the guidance of the Holy Spirit must grow and improve. When we receive answers, we must further improve according to that answer in order to receive the next answer. If an answer comes and you do not personally improve, then you cannot continue to enjoy those blessings. We must endlessly grow towards God’s desire of world evangelization. We must live today receiving the guidance of the Holy Spirit with this goal. Then, the works of the Holy Spirit will arise, and we will receive the answers of standing as witnesses.
- Listen to the Sunday pulpit message once more. Share your prayer topics with the people you are with. At that time, you will enjoy the blessing of your soul and lifestyle being healed within today’s life.
Study of Evangelism Lecture 3 / 2010.9.18