This blog is my personal journey to understand how to share the gospel with the growing number of people who don’t seem to be reached through common evangelism techniques, especially those who are far from faith, who have no interest in the Bible, in our spiritual perspectives, or even visiting a church.
Inspired by those in Acts who sought out unbelievers far from Jerusalem, I’m seeking new ways to share Jesus with those far from the faith. Those believers, even though not leaders, recognized the urgency of the mission when persecution started and they accelerated growth toward the ends of the Earth. They eventually reached the first purely Gentile audience in Antioch:
And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. … Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word. … Now those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews. But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Hellenists also, preaching the Lord Jesus. Acts 8:1b, 4, 11:19-20
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