Evangelism is not about making a sales pitch and getting someone to repeat a prayer they don’t understand.  If that’s all we do, then we’re merely innoculating people against the Gospel and increasing the danger that their soul will be lost for all eternity.

True evangelism is about multiplying after our own kind.  Like it or not, we all do exactly that.  So, if we’re liars, we can tell people to be honest, but our example will be one of hypocrisy and that is the role model we will present for them to follow.  How can we teach someone to trust in Christ if we don’t?  If we’re entertaining sin, if we’re living in sin, if sin is our Lord, if sin is the one that gets our trust and obedience in practical matters?  If that is our condition, then how can we lead others to heaven while going to hell ourselves?

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