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Fishers Of Men

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Most people don’t find faith through a stadium altar call, they meet Jesus through a friend. Personal evangelism grows the church far more than events, and it happens through simple, consistent love: real stories, real questions, real conversations. Most growth comes through relationships, invitations, and everyday faith lived out. Rooted in the Great Commission, we explore six easy styles anyone can use - courageous moments, honest Q&A, sharing your story, building relationships, inviting people in, and serving in ways that make the gospel believable.

The path forward is simple: choose three people, pray for them, care for them, and share what God gives you. Faith grows through many small conversations, not one big moment. If this speaks to you, make your list of three, take one step this week, and share this with someone who needs a nudge toward courage.

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We're gonna talk about personal evangelism. Everyone say evangelism. Personal evangelism, okay? And uh we are doing this uh series across all the campuses, so uh you gotta hear in all the campuses at the same uh time. Uh but I I while I was preparing, I was so touched by what God spoke to me, and I really hope that you will be blessed too, okay? Uh so we're gonna uh speak about different aspects. So it's gonna be a little statistics, a little information. Uh I might warn you that that it will not be a Pampa sermon, all right? It'll not you'll not walk out of this place thinking, wow, thank you, Jesus. You are such a blessing, and I'm blessed today. It might not be like that, okay? You might actually walk out of this place with a burden, and I pray that you do. Is that okay? Is it okay to you know for us to be in that place sometime? Yes, because we're talking about evangelism, okay? Uh, before that, very quickly, I want to share a quick joke, okay? So there was this really exciting, uh, excited uh evangelist, uh, and he was preaching, and then after the after the sermon, uh one guy comes up to him and says, uh Pastor, uh, can you please pray for my hearing? Can you please pray for my hearing? And then immediately uh the evangelist, you know, he he wants to be like Jesus, so he spits on his hand and with his pedal he just rubs it and puts it on his on the ear of that man and he's he prays for healing. And after a few minutes, he says, Hey, how are you feeling right now? Then then the man looks at him surprised and says, I don't know, my hearing is on Tuesday. All right, those who didn't laugh, meet me after the service, okay. It was a legal hearing, alright, not the physical hearing. But uh, I really hope we are not as powerful as that evangelist, okay? But we got some job to do, okay? Because we are not talking about evangelists, we are talking about believers who need to evangelize, okay? So uh um when I talk about evangelism, I always think of the big crusades. Anyone been to a big crusade? Like in Parade Ground and Jim Cana Ground and all that, like thousands of people, like one man screaming atop his voice, and at the end we give an altar call, and thousands of people come and get saved. I really love that stuff. And I I I felt that that that is what this nation needs, and that is what really God needs, and that is what will really change our nation until I began to prepare for my sermon, and then I realized the impact that those large crusades make, and the impact that one-on-one evangelism makes. One-on-one. You talking to Jesus about someone, you sharing your story with someone, you showing an act of kindness or love to someone. And I was really, really surprised. So I'm gonna just quickly uh skim through a few uh statistics. It'll it'll sound like a math class, okay, for a few minutes. Uh, here we go. 85% of all church growth. So this I I'm I'm telling this so that you understand the importance of personal evangelism, okay? 85% of all church growth comes via personal relationships, not programs or events. 85%, okay, and this is like proper stats, okay. 75 to 90 percent of first attended church, uh, 75 to 90 percent first attended church because a friend or a family member invited them. Almost 80-90 percent of people who walk into this house and any church across the globe, they come because someone, some friend or a family invited them. Let's get local. Delhi began to grow um uh with believers in in because of small Bible study fellowships. Delhi rarely had a large crusade ever. Mumbai, uh the Brethren assemblies started by Brother Bhaktsingh, it grew, it had 10,000 assemblies over a period of time. 10,000. And every assembly grew because a member invited someone else. And that's how believers increased in Mumbai. In Kolkata, a lot of it because of the charity that was happening uh in the in that um in that city. In Chennai, primarily because um the ancient Syrian roots, uh, roots in the 20th of this 20th century grew via village-to-village literacy classes and witnessing from door to door by neighbors. Okay, back to uh brother Bhagat Singh Bhagat Singh, uh he he started tea time Bible studies, tea time Bible studies, and by 2000 there were 10,000 of these local churches, of these small Bible studies, and zero crusades, zero events. Again, well known, Brother Sadhu Sundar Singh. He walked barefoot, village to village, one conversation at a time, and he impacted thousands, one conversation at a time. To Hyderabad, one of the largest cities in India, 300,000 people. The pastor confirms that every Sunday, 80% of new visitors or 80% of the first-time visitors who come to that church are bought, uh come in because someone invited them. It's not because of a big crusade or any advertisement, it was it is because someone invited them. Church, if only 25% of our congregation here is active in evangelism, we will double in three years. Only 25% will double with true disciples in three years. But if 100% of us take evangelism seriously, we double every year. Can you believe that? We double double every year. I want to go to the root scripture of mine, Matthew 28. All of us know this. Matthew 28, 18 to 20. It says, and Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to follow all that I commanded you. And behold, I am with you to the end of the age. Why do we need to go and evangelize? It is because it is a direct command from Jesus. It's not a disciples' idea, it's not the first the early church idea, it's not an apostle's idea, it's the idea of Jesus Christ who says that you and I need to go and make disciples. You and I need to evangelize. It doesn't talk about pastors, does it say pastors anywhere? Does it say deacons or apostles anywhere? It is every believer, every believer. Come and ludge your neighbor and say, including you. Wonderful. I like that volume. All of us. It's not specific to a sect of people or or a certain level of intelligence or anything. Every one of us needs to take responsibility of the Great Commission. It is a direct, a direct commandment of Christ. So, what is personal evangelism? Pastor, so what do you even what are you even talking about? I don't even know to speak. I I maybe I can't pray much. I don't know scripture. So, what is this evangelism? We'll just read simple definitions of this. Personal evangelism is a practice of sharing the Christian gospel with others through one-on-one conversations. Just like you talk to your friend, just like to talk to your colleague. One-on-one conversation and genuine relationships rather than a large public setting. Personal evangelism is sharing the message of Christ with others. It is showing and telling both word and deed, that is in action, who Jesus is to you and how it's possible to have a relationship with Him. Evangelism is just, you know, one of the simplest definitions is to share your story along with his story to someone. Your story along with his story to someone. It's as simple as that. We're gonna also look at how we can do that. But before that, I want to quickly run through the kinds of evangelism, the kinds of personal evangelism. It might look like a teaching class, but it's important that we understand, right? These things, okay? Different kinds. So here we go. The first one, direct, that is bold or confrontational. This is very rare. It's like you standing and talking to people and saying, hey, Jesus is the Lord, this is why he is Lord, and this is why he died, and this is uh we are sinners, and it's it's direct, it's confrontational. We don't do that often, right? Like mostly, you know, uh people in apologetics or something, they they they that is the flavor that they carry, okay? Uh, and um one of the instances you see this in Acts 26. I really love this chapter. You should go back and read Acts 26. It's a conversation between Paul and uh uh Festus. Uh yeah, Festus, one of the leaders, and King Agrippa. Okay, this uh it's so basically uh uh uh Paul is standing and he's he's um he's representing himself in front of the king. So it's like a legal discussion. So he's he he he tells uh what he was doing and how bad he was, and that he was killing uh believers of Christ, and then how Jesus God changed him and what he's doing now. So he tells the whole story, so that's a direct confrontational discussion, so much so that at the end, King Agrippa says, So now what? Do you want me to believe in Christ now? He finishes with that, and then he also says, I don't find any fault with Paul. If he wouldn't have reached out to Caesar, I would I wouldn't have sent him to Caesar, but he goes to Caesar, that's a different story. But it's a direct confrontation, okay? So that is one of the ways for personal evangelism. The second one, intellectual, okay? That is reasoning, question, and answers. Okay, suppose your friend comes and asks, Hey, uh, why do you believe in Christ? How do you know that Jesus is real? How do you know that he actually died and rose again? How did Jesus rise? So, questions. Uh, what do you think about sin? What do you think about forgiveness? What do you how do you think that mankind will end? What will happen to the future? So these are questions. So there's a conversation happening. No, these are in intellectual reasoning. Again, the same thing happens uh uh in Acts 17, and and Paul again is the center of this, and he talks about he he questions the people of Athens and he and he asks them about the God they worship, and and that's a discussion. That is one way, okay. The third way is is testimony. That is, what did Jesus do to you? I think all of us would love to do this kind of uh evangelism, right? What did Jesus do to you? And we see this in John 9, 25. This talks about the blind man, and and Jesus heals a blind man on a Sabbath, and and uh later on through the week the Pharisees catch hold of him and and they take him uh to the leaders and say, Hey, this guy was healed on a Sabbath, it is not the right thing. And then the guy says, I don't know who who the person, who's the one who healed, whether he is a good man or not. I don't know anything, but my story is once I was blind, now I see. That was his story. So testimonies is to tell how you were before Christ, how did you meet Christ, and how are you now after Christ. So that is the way one of the ways of of uh evangelism. The fourth one, relational. I really love this. That is to build relationships. So this is a slow one to connect with people, maybe friends or colleagues. You build relationships over a period of time, and that relationship itself will give you opportunities to minister to them, to pray for them, to answer their questions, to journey with them, to show love, etc. So uh Luke 5 29, this is a Leviat tax collector. He he invites all the tax collectors to his house for a feast, and then Jesus attends that feast. So building relationship, okay? Uh fifth one, invitational, and this is very, very prevalent for us. Invitational, that is to tell people, come and see. That is what we do, right? Every Sunday, he said we invite people over, we invite friends over. We say, hey, why don't you come to my church? Why don't you come to our sisters' meeting? Why don't you come to a moment? Why don't you come to our live groups? Come and see how it is. So invitational. And uh, this we see in John 4 29, and this this is about the Samaritan woman, and she has an encounter with Jesus, and Jesus talks about her past and everything and tells who she is, and then what she does after she recognizes that who Jesus is, she runs into the village and she says, Come and see someone who spoke to me about my past that no one else knows. Come and see. That is one of the ways of personal evangelism. That is to tell people, come and see. And the last one is by service, that is, love in action. Acts 9 36 talks about Tabitha. Tabitha was one of the businesswomen, and and she took care of all the women wherever she was. She knitted clothes, she gave them amazing clothes and robes, so much so that when she dies, all these women come around her and they begin to weep for her and said she was an amazing woman and she did this for all of us. And then you know the story, Peter comes and raises her back to life. Okay? Acts of love. So these are different ways of personal evangelism that you can do. We might not do everything, but we might do one kind for a season that we are in. But all are important, and it's it's nothing is greater and nothing is lower. But these are the these are different ways of evangelism. So we've established that why is personal evangelism important? Because it builds the kingdom of God like nothing else. Far more greater than any big crusade or any evangelistic meeting. Far more greater than that is you going to someone and inviting them to Christ. That is powerful. We have established that that is how God moves and that is what builds his kingdom. We also looked at what are the kinds of evangelism. Okay, so now we're gonna go to the homework. Anyone loves homework? I'm gonna get you to do homework. So, this is what we're gonna do because the Great Commission is a lifetime homework, isn't it? The Great Commission is a homework for life, and we will be accountable to God for what we've we actually have done with with that homework. So, while we go into the other part of the sermon, I want you to right now think of maybe three people. I'll give you a few seconds. Think of three people who are close to you that you feel that you need to begin to pray and uh and and begin to intentionally work on them for their salvation. It could be your own people, your family members, it could be your colleagues that you're working with for for many years, it could be your relatives, it could be your friends, anyone. Can you think of three names that God is putting on your heart that you love them but they don't know Christ? I want you to right now think about those three names. Because the next what we'll be talking about, we're gonna build on that, okay? Three names, just just think of that. I'm sure you already pop a few, right? Get that, get that whole. Because I really hope we will be working on those names in 2026 as well, because we want to see them saved. We want to see, yeah, if you really love someone, well, one of the greatest things that you can do is to let them see them saved, eh? Isn't it? If you really love them, be it your friend or whoever it is, if you really love them, the greatest thing that you want to see is them coming to Christ. There's nothing more greater than that. So get a hold of those three names. I once you get back home. I want you to write them down and and put it up, and you will be working on them for the from now on into the next year. Is that okay? Yes? So, how can we go about this personal evangelism? I love how uh Pastor uh Reverend uh Canon J. John um uh talks about evangelism. He's amazing. You should listen to his sermon. Go back home, search him and and and search evangelism. Great, great preacher, and he's a pure evangelist, like one-on-one. You should hear his stories, crazy stories. You will be encouraged. So please do that. Listen to his sermons. So he he put up three simple points of how you can uh uh how you can uh uh personally evangelize to these three people. You remember, right? Those three people, okay. The first one, a simple foundational one, is praying. You gotta pray for them, pray for them that God will give you opportunities, pray for them that they will be open to the Spirit of God. Pray for them that God will give you wisdom of what to do, when to do, and how to do. Pray, pray for them. The second one, the first one is praying, the second one is caring. It's not just praying, right? It's about caring as well. That is to do small acts of kindness. It could be very simple, it could be it could be just staying in touch with them, or it could be journeying with them for a season, it could be spending time with them, it could be blessing them with something when they're going through a difficult time, it could be anything but to genuinely care. What good is it that you preach Jesus and you don't have love enough to care? The word of God says that they will know that you are Christians by your not by your preaching, not by the clothes you wear, not by the post, by your love. They will know that you are my disciples by your love, by the deeds that you do. And the third point one is praying, caring, and the third is sharing. Sharing what? Sharing whatever God puts you on your heart, sharing the gospel, the best. But but maybe you won't get um an a chance to share the gospel right away. It could be anything, it could be sharing wisdom, sharing uh encouragement, sharing a scripture, or praying over them. But every time you get an opportunity, you share. So that is prayer, care, and share. Okay. Um, so I've jotted down a few of the most tested ways, again, just falling back on this, these three principles. Few of the most tested ways of how you can evangelize personally. Okay? How you are you with me this morning? Yes? So few of the tested ways how you can evangelize personally to those three people, okay? And not restricted to those three, anyone at all, but those three, okay? One, we already looked at this. Share your testimony. Share your testimony. You know, I remember we were out uh with a team in Singapore one one night, and uh we were just getting back to the hotel, I think, and we we found a girl over there, uh, a loner, um a young lady, not a girl, a young lady, and we had a few girls in our team as well. So we just caught up with them. We felt something was wrong with her, right? And we caught up with her, we just sat with her, just hung out, just spoke to her for some time, and then we got to know her story, and that she was a single mom, and then she was going through a very difficult time. And um, and then there, sitting there, I think about past 12 or past one, we sat and we shared our story, our testimony of what God did in our lives. And and uh cutting the story short, at the end of our conversation, she actually gave her life to Christ. Some unknown girl, random girl in Singapore, 1 a.m., sitting on the street, and we just catching up. Later, she told that she actually was contemplating to kill herself that day. But but just God's God's grace was there. Imagine if we wouldn't have shared our story with her. Imagine what would have happened. That is the power of your story. It's nothing great about you know what, it's not not even great about our story, but when you share your story, God will use that story to influence the person. God will use a story to reach out, to minister to the person. And the Holy Spirit will do that to so to share your testimony. The second way, one of the most testest ways to to share and and and to evangelize is to have a dialogue. To have a dialogue, to talk, to to have conversations, to have constant conversations. One of the things that you need to do with those three people is to intentionally have conversations. Alright? You can't not just praying and like for and then forgetting them for a few months and then again praying. No. Intentionally, you need to have conversations with them. Ask God to give you opportunities. You know, I remember um uh a few years ago, I I was going to meet uh my colleague in another city. I was going to his house for dinner, and for some reason I felt like praying over myself and say, God, give me uh give me an opportunity to share something about you. That usually doesn't happen with me, but I very specifically felt the Holy Spirit say that. So I prayed, give me give me an opportunity to share something about you. And during the course of that conversation, okay, and they are from a different faith, there's another couple that joins them at their house, unplanned completely. And out of the blue, they're being to talk about spirits, they're being to talk about how people are tormented by spirits, and and their question was, are these spirits real? Do they actually do that? And what is what is your thoughts on it? What do you feel? So that that that gave me a venue to talk about the spirit, the Holy Spirit, and what we believe, the power that is there in the name of Jesus, so that we we can bind the spirits that are not of him. And I I spoke a lot about that, all right. So, and I I didn't get to share the gospel, but but I prayed and asked God, give me an opportunity to share something about you, and I was able to share his greatness and the power that is there in his name, and uh a whole lot of things of the Holy Spirit and the evil spirits because I prayed, dialogue. See, I I don't know, I don't know whether that'll help them in any way, but you know what? One of the things, is it is said that people need at least seven or eight deep conversations before they accept Christ. Those are the stats. Seven or eight deep conversations before they accept Christ. I did my part doing one. They might not come to me for the second, they might not come to me for the third. I don't know where the fourth one will be. But if I don't do my part of the first, you know what? I you know, I I will lose my my privilege of sharing the gospel with them or sharing uh the the first conversation, and and whoever does the second, third, and that'll be pushed down further. But if all of us can do together, whenever we get a chance, you know what? This conversation begins to fall in line with what God is doing in their life, and you will see that one day they will give the life to Christ. So, conversations, have dialogues. The third most tested way, again, service, kindness. These people, these three people who you're thinking of, take time to invest intentionally invest in them to bless them, do something for them, seek opportunities to do something for them. It could be as simple as talking to them, journeying with them, standing with them, or or uh just blessing with them with something small acts of kindness. You know, last week I was talking to uh someone who recently found Christ and he was super, super excited. He still has so many questions, but he was just beaming and overflowing, he was talking non-stop, non-stop. So we finished three services last week. We had baptism for 20 people. I was like super exhausted, I was just wanting to sit and eat, and he just came there at the at the lunch table and he was talking, and I was like trying to get rid of him because so exhausted, but I could see that he he he just didn't want to stop because he was so excited to find Christ. Then I felt that I need to talk to him. So I stood there, my back was aching, and I just stood there and spoke, and he spoke for like two and a half hours, and I I had to cut him so many times, but you know what? He cut me back again because he was super excited. I said, This is absolutely amazing. And he said, I know that I spoke a lot, and I thank you for standing and talking to me, but I had to speak to someone, I had to speak to someone, it's as simple as talking, you know. So find ways to show love to these people, it could be anything. The fourth one, use scripture wherever possible, pick up a scripture and talk to them about the scripture. Any simple or small, a small thought that you can do. And the fifth one that really, really helps us is to invite them into the community. That is church. One of the we already looked at that, right? One of the best ways to to evangelize is to bring them. How difficult it is for you to call your friend and say, Hey, you know what, I'm going to church. Can you just join me? Do you want to join? Especially if they're going through difficult times, anything. No, first time they might not say anything, second time they might reject, third time they might reject, fourth time they might reject. You know what? At last, you know what, just because you call them, they'll come. They'll come. More than someone, more than 70 or 60 people of unbelievers say if they were invited by their friend, they will go to church. More than 60 percent. If only they were invited by a friend, they will go to church. Now tell me whose responsibility is that your people are waiting to be invited. Just a simple invitation. Hey, do you want to come for sisters? Do you want to come to the life group? Life group is amazing, extremely non-uh confrontational, very open, very free. Bring people to life group, invite them, let them hang out and let them see Christ. These are a few ways of how you can actually um share your uh uh or uh reach out to your people and evangelize to them. You know, while we do that, you know, John 4 37 it says, one sows, another reaps. One sows, another reaps. Our job is to sow where we can. Our job is to sow where we can. It could be the first conversation, it could be the fourth conversation, it could be the seventh conversation. Just imagine if you see don't no fruit and you get fed up, and at the sixth conversation you stop. Maybe they were ready to receive Christ in the next couple of conversations. Just can I can I just tell you Galatians 6 9 do not be weary of doing good, for in due season you will reap a harvest in due season. We got to keep going on, we got to keep investing in those three people. You know, salvation is not just a one-time thing, it takes time, it takes time, sometimes it's just an encounter, but most of the time it's a process, it's a conversation, it's a ministry of God that come happens over and over different times and seasons. Matthew 9, 36 through 38. And I'll begin to finish with this. It says, when Jesus saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. People working over here. I can guarantee you at office, you stand up and you look around, you would see so many sheep without a shepherd. Broken, lost, hurting, without vision, without anything at all. And they're waiting for someone to come and show the way. And that's why God reminds us that we gotta be the soul, we gotta be the light, we gotta lead them, take courage. To go and pray for someone, they won't say no. Say, can I pray for you? As simple as that. They will 99% they will say yes. If you know that their family members are sick, can I visit your house and pray? They will not say no. They will not say no. These are the windows of opportunity to show Christ to evangelize to them. So the harvest is plenty, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. I titled my sermon Fishers of Men. Fishers of Men. I know all of us like fishing, especially on Sundays. But we're not talking about eating fish. We're talking about fishing people. We're so good at fishing wealth, fishing dreams, fishing relationships, fishing riches. All that is good. There's nothing wrong about it. But the word of God says all that will be added later. But the greatest is to fish men, to fish people. When was the last time you intentionally tried to share Christ with someone? Can you think about that? Do we do justice to the blood that was sacrificed on the cross? That we selfish selfishly keep it for us only, for our forgiveness? Do we want to keep Christ only for us? We cannot be selfish. We cannot be selfish. But when you take a step, the Holy Spirit will lead you. He will put words in your mouth. He will give you opportunities. He will tell you what to do, what not to do. Don't fear the word of God. No. Matthew 28, the same thing. It says, All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. And the last part it says that I am surely with you always and to the very end of the age. All power is in Christ, and Christ is with us. The only thing is you need to decide that I will be active in evangelizing to my friends, my relatives, my people, or those three people, that I will be active. Can I get that picture on the screen? I'll finish with this. I'll let the team come. You know, um, this was a picture I clicked in in Bangkok, and we were in Bangkok, uh, me and my wife, and um morning, busy shopping street. You know how Bangkok is, right? Like early morning, busy shopping street, and we're getting ready to shop, and we step out of the hotel and we're walking down a few feet, and we I find this guy, and he's an African and uh uh dressed up in Thai, very smart, very smartly dressed, in shoes and with a Bible. And he was standing in a place, and uh he was sharing the gospel right on the street, preaching his heart out in their language, not English or African in their language. And when I and my wife saw that, we just broke down. We just broke down, and uh I was like, God, can you give me a little of that passion? A little bit of the passion. I don't know where his family was, I don't know what he had to do, how long he's been there because he learned the language, he was alone, and you know what? No one were no one around was listening to him actually. But he was called to preach the gospel and he was faithful to that call, and he stood there and he was preaching his lungs out. I'm sure many were touched because of him, and I'm sure many stories began because of him over there. That was his call. You and I may not be called like that, but the word of God, we saw that scripture, but you are called to evangelize the great commission. You're not you might not be called to be an evangelist, but you certainly are called to evangelize. So I want to challenge you. I'm not trying to emotionally just do something to you, I'm not trying to get you to do something. You know what? Everything that I spoke will be futile if you walk out of this place without a decision, if you walk out of this place without without a result, everything goes for a toss. And I don't know when the Holy Spirit will again come back and speak on the subject, but He's here, and the need is here. Hyderabad needs us, your relatives need you, your office needs you. It's you, it's not someone else, it's you, it's you, it's your responsibility. So I want you to just close your eyes for a few seconds and let the Holy Spirit speak and think about those three people, and and I want you to just speak to the Holy Spirit and say, God, would you give me this compassion that Jesus had? That I don't want to sit, I don't want to sit quiet, I don't want to be selfish with the blood of Christ and the forgiveness of Christ. How can I sit quiet when I know that my friends are heading towards hell? How can I sit quiet when my brothers and sisters are heading towards hell? And that's not for a year or two or ten years, it's eternity. Just ask the Holy Spirit to fill you with compassion today. It's not for hope you see, it's not for church, it is your commission. One day you will stand in front of the Father, and he would ask you, He would ask you about the great commission.