https://keystonelife.com  How You Can Introduce Others to Christ     You Can Change Your World    Talk about Christ everywhere you go.    “You must bring a lot of happiness into this world,” said the young businessman with tears of  joy and gratitude in his eyes. He had just prayed with me and received Christ as his Savior and  Lord. He and his wife had been looking for God for some time, he said, and now he was eager to  take the Four Spiritual Laws booklet home with him so that he could in turn introduce his wife  to Christ.   

    The words of this joyful young Christian have come to my mind again and again: “You must  bring a lot of happiness into this world” by sharing the Lord Jesus Christ with tens of  thousands of students and lay people around the world.    The apostle Paul related this experience to the Colossians, “Everywhere we go we talk about  Christ to all who will listen.”   

  https://keystonelife.com  You have the privilege of participating with our living Lord in the fulfillment for His Great  Commission in our generation. In my opinion, the only way to change the world is to change  individuals. Changed people, in sufficient numbers, will produce changed campuses, changed  communities, changed cities, states and nations – yes, in a very real sense, a changed world.  Jesus Christ is the only One who can change people from within. You can help to change the  world by introducing people to Jesus Christ.     Two Reasons Why Christians Don’t Tell Others    One of the greatest misconceptions of the centuries is the idea so prevalent among Christians  that men and women do not want to know God. Wherever I go around the world, I find ample  proof that just the opposite is true. The Holy Spirit has created a hunger for God in the hearts  of multitudes. From my experience and through much observation, I am fully convinced that  the majority of non-believers throughout the world are ready to receive Christ when properly  approached with a clear and simple presentation for the gospel by a Spirit-filled witness.    Yet, tragically, most Christians have never introduced a single person to the Lord Jesus. There  are two good reasons for this.    First, the average Christian is living a defeated, spiritually impotent, fruitless, worldly (carnal)  life. He is not walking in the fullness and control of the Holy Spirit – as one Christian leader  explained his reluctance to witness, “My kind of Christianity is worth exporting.” If this is true  in your life, I encourage you to review my messages on the subjects of How You Can Experience  God’s Love and Forgiveness, How You Can Be Filled With the Spirit and How You Can Walk in  the Spirit.    The second reason is a lack of training. Most Christians have never been trained to  communicate their faith in Christ effectively. They have never learned how to begin a  conversation about Christ, how to explain the gospel simply and clearly, and how to lead a  person to make a decision to receive Christ by faith.     In the coming pages, I want to share with you the reasons Jesus wants you to witness, which  relates to your motives; and how you can go about witnessing effectively, which concerns  methods.    8 Reasons Jesus Wants You to Witness    Telling others about Christ has many purposes.    Permit me to give you, briefly, 8 reasons God desires all believers to share their faith.   

  https://keystonelife.com  First​, as you witness, you bring glory to God. Jesus says in John 15:8, “By this My Father is  glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.”    Second​, the love of Christ compels us to share our faith. In Paul’s words, “The love of Christ  constrains us.” If you have experienced the love of the Lord Jesus, you will also want to  introduce him to others.    Third​, sharing your faith is a direct command from Jesus Christ. He says, “Follow me, and I will  make you fishers of men.” And, “You did not choose me, but I chose you to go and bear fruit –  fruit that will last.”    Fourth​, people without Christ are lost. Jesus says, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No  one comes to the Father except through me.” The Word of God declares emphatically,  “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by  which we must be saved.”     Fifth​, God wants you to witness because of the benefits He offers to those who receive Christ.  When you introduce others to Christ, they become children of God; their bodies become temples  of God; all their sins are forgiven – past, present and future! They begin to experience the peace  and love of God; they receive God’s direction and purpose for their lives; they experience the  power of God to change their lives; and they have assurance of eternal life.    Sixth​, God wants you to witness because of the benefits to those who witness. Witnessing  stimulates your spiritual growth. Witnessing leads you to pray and to study God’s Word and  encourages you to depend on Christ. As you witness in the power of the Holy Spirit, you sow  love and joy and peace. According to the law for sowing and reaping, you always harvest what  you sow and even more. For example, if you sow love, you will harvest love. If you sow joy, you  will reap joy. If you sow peace, you will reap peace. And always, the harvest is greater than the  seed sown.    Seventh​, God wants you to witness to experience the tremendous privilege and honor of  representing Jesus to the world. In his second letter to the Corinthians, Paul wrote, “We are  Christ’s ambassadors. God is using us to speak to you. We beg you, as though Christ himself  were here pleading with you, receive the love he offers you – be reconciled to God.”    Most people consider it a high honor to serve as an ambassador for the head of their country –  the president or king – but as a believer in Christ, you are an ambassador for the King of kings  and the Lord of lords!    Eighth​, God wants you to witness because the Holy Spirit has been given to provide the power  for you to do so. Jesus says, “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and  you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the 

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