Evangelism--Tell your story!

[ByzantineDixie]

Has God ever used you to bring someone else to faith or reaffirmation of faith? Tell your story here!

Peace

Rose

[Phoebe]

I think I was used at Easter. When my co- workers and I cooked breakfast at church, Darrell's friend came to help. M. is a P.K. He got burnt out on church. Two weeks ago, Darrell said M. found a small congregation where he lives and has started attending. We'll see if he sticks with it. :)

[SPALATIN]

I don't share my story but I try to share Jesus story because his story is what they need to hear.

[ByzantineDixie]

I don't share my story but I try to share Jesus story because his story is what they need to hear.

Absolutely!!! So tell us how God has used you to share the story of Jesus with someone. Evangelism can be a little uncomfortable for some. We could all learn from each other. Tips? Suggestions? -----R

[Protoevangel]

Has God ever used you to bring someone else to faith or reaffirmation of faith? Tell your story here!
Peace
Rose
Great idea for a thread Rose! I don't know how well it will go over in the Lutheran thread, with us being so introverted and stoic and all! :D

When I first started working where I am at now (a whole 2 months ago!), my lead was attending a universalist "church". He started going there because of a lady he was dating was a regular member. He grew up and was confirmed Catholic.

He has now began attending a community church (I have yet to convince him to go to a Lutheran Church;)). He has begun to talk to his girlfriend about Jesus (she started out hardcore opposed to discussing Christ), and she is opening up to him as far as other discussions about the Living God (as opposed to the "impersonal" god-spirit) and the Trinity.

God is so mercyful to work in our lives like this. I am a sinful, repugnant worm, yet He can use me to affect those around me. SLStrohkirch, that IS Jesus' story, not mine.

[ByzantineDixie]

Great idea for a thread Rose! I don't know how well it will go over in the Lutheran thread, with us being so introverted and stoic and all! :D

I know!!! :D That's why I thought it might help if we talk about some of our experiences. The Holy Spirit has me so charged to tell His story but I resist many times...full of the fear of men.

When I first started working where I am at now (a whole 2 months ago!), my lead was attending a universalist "church". He started going there because of a lady he was dating was a regular member. He grew up and was confirmed Catholic.

He has now began attending a community church (I have yet to convince him to go to a Lutheran Church;)). He has begun to talk to his girlfriend about Jesus (she started out hardcore opposed to discussing Christ), and she is opening up to him as far as other discussions about the Living God (as opposed to the "impersonal" god-spirit) and the Trinity.

Woohoo!!! I love to see God working in the lives of His people. It is such a faith builder!

God is so mercyful to work in our lives like this. I am a sinful, repugnant worm, yet He can use me to affect those around me. SLStrohkirch, that IS Jesus' story, not mine.

This is so :cool: ...even though we are sinful and repugnant...He uses us in our inperfection. He compels us to tell His story and through us others hear the good news...that there is salvation for the repentant believer because of Christ's victory on the cross.

Just about everyone at work knows I am a Christian. I don't run around telling everyone but I have certain things in my office that give it away. (A carved wooden statue of Jesus I bought in the airport in Sao Paulo over looks my desk and is a favorite!) And there are a group of us women who meet together for bible study after work once a week. I am also the only female member of senior management in my division so that draws some curiousity, too (and makes it a lot more difficult to share my faith without crossing the line of inappropriate influence).

Anyway, I frequently have people stop in my office to discuss faith matters. One day a gal stopped in and we touched on the topic of faith. She told me she grew up Catholic but was away from the church for many years. She said she couldn't go to church anyway because she had a second job on the weekends. Well, I couldn't let that pass!!! I told the woman that she needed to join us for Bible Study and Wednesday night services at our church. So she started coming with me on Wednesday nights. Then (and I have told a part of this story before) she came to our Tenebrae service. At the end of the service, each member of the congregation takes a nail and hammers it into a large cross at the altar. After first being crushed by the weight of the Law from the sermon, the Holy Spirit led my friend back to faith in Christ while she hammered in her nail and freed her from her death sentence. As an added benefit when she left that service she never smoked another cigarette again...said she never even wanted to.

My coworker never did join our church...it was not very comfortable for her...ethnically it just wasn't a good mix. But she is one of the gals in our bible study at work and she has recently returned to the Catholic Church. I can not tell you how excited I was that Easter Monday morning when she told me how the Holy Spirit brought her to faith. I think I grinned non-stop for 3 days.

Peace

Rose

[GlowingFirefly]

Actually it was the other way around for me. God used my friends to bring me to the affermation of my faith. :)

I've never led anyone to God.. Yet. :)

[LuxPerpetua]

Through LOTS of prayer, Bible study, discussion, and church my then-boyfriend/now-husband was brought into the faith. This process took about 2 years and was filled with lots of tears and cries out to God, but now Tim is very much an alive-in-Christ Christian and I could not be more thankful to God! What a complete blessing. :bow: