Sharing the gospel, finally

Jesus commanded us to "go into all the world and preach the gospel" Mark 16:15 and it has always bothered me that as a Christian I have not made much effort to share the gospel. This has been due to not really knowing what to say, not knowing how to make the gospel relevant to the people around me. It's not like you can just share with someone from scripture anymore since the Bible is not overly believed or respected anymore. Yet we are are commanded to share the gospel. What then are we to do?

Well, Paul gives us the answer in 2 Corinthians 10:4-5: "the weapons of our warfare are...mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God." Everybody has an argument against believing in Jesus. It's up to us to find out what that argument is and to cast it down so that person is in a better position to accept Christ.

This is particularly relevant to me because I have just entered into conversation with an atheist. Now, formerly I would have not had a clue how to proceed with sharing the gospel with an atheist and thus would have been too scared to try. But actually, the door of opportunity, the foothold, has been quite simple. We've started talking about origins. See, if he doesn't believe in God then he has no use for Jesus because he is not a well-loved, created in God's image, sinner. In his mind he has no need for a saviour. So to share the gospel with him, I need to start at the beginning, with creation. Now of course, he is an evolutionist and so I need to demonstrate the falisty of that postion in order to pave the way for the truth of God's existence, the veracity of the Bible, God's perfect creation of man, man's fall in sin and death, Jesus' substitutionary atonement and resurrection and man's need to repent. Everything is connected.

I'm glad to have an opportunity to share the gospel that I'm actually taking advantage of.