You Responsibility to Unbelievers

Welcome to the rap report. I'm your host Andrew rap report The executive director of striving for eternity and the Christian podcast community of which this podcast is a proud member. We are going through the series giving you the talks that both Aaron Brewster and myself did at the rise up conference up by Northern New York Watertown New York area.

This was the topics of the conference was your responsibility in this world. This one will be my message that I provided on your responsibility to unbelievers and we're basically looking to help people overcome their fears in Evangelism if you've ever had fear and evangelism if you've ever wanted to evangelize or maybe you do evangelize.

This message will hopefully be an encouragement to you. I hope you enjoy this. We have two more in our series What's your responsibility to church and what's your responsibility to culture dealing with social justice.

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Essentially, he just said that I'm the only thing keeping you from lunch. The pressure oh. You know me things are hard enough, but you have to go there, huh? So You know I just want to really quickly Aaron mentioned, but just for those who Did sign up for you if you got any of the bundles?

And you didn't sign up for Aaron's courses. Go in the back. There is a beautiful Chinese woman in the back happens to be my bride so. But she's probably the only Chinese woman here, so it's probably safe the only one at least behind the table.

But her name is Yim so if you see her She'll sign you up for for the courses if you want to just take those courses. They're there, too. So so where are we so we started off with what is our responsibility to God?

Right we started looking at that and realizing that our responsibility to God is to glorify him. We actually have that responsibility, and we should have that response because he created us. It's kind of a weird thing that people think like well we We should be able to tell God.

How things work? We're gonna. We're gonna talk a little bit about evangelism this session, but I remember in New York City I was at a Union Square Park if any of you've been there if not Probably a good thing.

But I was rare talking to this guy and He told me he's an atheist. I said what is your best argument for atheism? You know I have been asking that question for About two decades now I Have yet to hear a good argument for atheism.

Because every time I ask that question all I get is bad arguments against Christianity. I've always kind of wanted that but this guy said that his argument for atheism is that when he was a child He prayed and God didn't answer his prayer.

Who does he think is God? He thinks God should listen to him and submit to him not he submit to God. We are here and have a responsibility to glorify God. Next last night we talked about is our responsibility of Scripture now some people I think from the questions that came up afterwards may not Have understood as clearly as I wanted to explain.

We have a responsibility of Scripture to submit to it and study it. It does not mean when we there is an aspect of God's nature called God's providence. God works through things and He sets things up, and so there are times where yes someone can can just have someone come to mind.

Maybe some of you had that experience where someone comes to mind. And you just start praying for that person you call the person next day and find out they were in a car accident at The same time that you start praying for them is That a direct revelation.

No. That is what we call God's providence. God works through his providence. They can bring things to our minds. But the issue that I was trying to address last night our responsibility of Scripture is that we do not receive direct Revelation from God.

We go to the Word of God. We have all the revelation we need but a big problem in our culture is that our responsibility of Scripture is we kind of like. The same as we've looked at before where we want to be God well.

We want to be God's Word. We want to be the ones to say well I think this and therefore let's see if God's Word can we can make God's Word say that and So we see that we have this responsibility to God to glorify him.

We have a responsibility of Scripture to submit and study. We have a Responsibility to the world as we just heard huh. I wonder what that responsibility could be. Kind of funny anyone anyone guess. Anyone want to take a guess we should do what.

Oh make? Disciples of all nations. Well, I don't know how you guys guessed that one. Kind of a reminder right. So do we have this responsibility to the world to proclaim the truth? Are you glad that somebody shared the truth with you?

How will they know unless someone goes? Unless there's a preacher now. It doesn't mean you have to be like me. Someone asked me. Do you what do you when you say you go on the street? What do you mean?

Do you actually just stand on the street? Yes, I go to Union Square a lot. I'll go to the Jersey Boardwalk. I will have a little box. It's a Stanley tool chest because it fits all my Bibles and my amplifier and all kinds of things in there.

You just got to be careful because one hot side has wheels so if you lean to. But but what ends up happening is I just get up and I start to proclaim the truth. I'll read scripture. I'll engage with people.

Why do I do that. Because I love it. No, I Don't I Do it because well, unfortunately, I have a voice that carries we were talking this morning with folks that you know. If you really want to empty a church have me up here and sing.

I Can't carry a tune. It's not good for church services. My daughter once said to me. He's like she's like dad. Why do you have to sing so loud? You're throwing the whole church off. Thank you dear such a sweetheart, but what is the first step if we're gonna make disciples.

We just heard and by the way as we look at Matthew 28. Why don't we turn there briefly. Wasn't Gonna go there, but it originally but it's it's important. Because of this when you hear this spoken if you go to any missions conference, you're going to hear Matthew 28 19 and 20.

I Remember I was preaching at a conference the opening conference was world missions and I was going to be closing the conference with local missions and I could not be there the first Sunday. But I knew the pastor that started it and his text was Matthew 28 19 and 20 and During the week.

I realized I was gonna have a problem. Because my text was gonna be Matthew 28 19 and 20. Now it's not that we had the same text that caused the problem. It's how I anticipated he used the text. For his title and sure enough without listening to his message, by the way, this is before the time of okay.

This is the in the days of cassette tapes. So if you don't know what it is ask your parent. But I Didn't hear his message. But the thing is is that I knew how he was using it and his whole emphasis was on go there for.

Because it says go there for and make disciples of all nations. Baptizing in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teaching them to observe all things that I command you and lo I am with you always even to the end of the age and So many people focus on the going.

Is it important to go? Well, we're not going to be able to make disciples unless we go but here's the little thing this is something where I brought up in that conference and I Mentioned that if you actually look at the Greek in that word go it is an adverb.

It should properly be translated going. Make disciples or as you go make disciples the command there. The verb is make and the subjects disciples. We are to make disciples. That's what we're to do. The Great Commission is not to go.

It's to make disciples. Now, you know why we prefer to say go. Because then we can fund missionaries and sit at home and avoid the fear of evangelism, right? The missionary gets paid to do that. Our pastor gets paid to do that.

That's easy. But we are all to make disciples. How many of you go to a coffee shop. Sometimes during yep. What do you go to a coffee shop for coffee? Okay. How many of you guys go to the library? Yeah, what do you go to libraries for.

He's a one-man coffee all the time, what do you go for library for books, okay. Any of you guys go grocery shopping? I'm not allowed to. My wife gives me a list and I do. I always get everything on her list.

I just seem to get extras that she thinks I shouldn't be getting. Those things that she never gets when I I see nods of head like yeah, you you have a husband like that, too. Okay. Yeah. Why do you go grocery shopping, you know why I go to the coffee shop in the library and the Grocery store when I'm allowed to share the gospel and sometimes I actually get coffee.

I Say that because I actually went to a Dunkin Donuts once and I walked in and there's a nice long line. I always start from the front of the line. So no one thinks I'm cutting the line. I hand out tracks all you know and I hand out tracks and so a guy that was in the front of line had time To read the tract.

He got his coffee. I'm in the back of the line. He comes to the back and starts asking me about what it says in the gospel tract. I Start telling him I step out of line, so I'm not holding up the line and Now what ends up happening is as we're sitting there.

We walked outside. We continue the conversation. We had we're talking inside for about 20 minutes. We go outside for 20 minutes. Hopped in my car drove down the road. You know what? I realized what didn't I get?

But that's okay because I actually didn't go there for the coffee. I Went there to hand out gospel tracks and share the gospel as We go make disciples. Well, how do we make disciples? Well, the first thing in making a disciple if we're going to make a disciple the first stage of making a disciple is going to be evangelism.

Because you can't make a disciple you cannot. What is a disciple. A disciple is something you reproduce Yourself as the text says teaching them all things Christ has taught you. Now for some of us we go whoo, that's easy.

All I know is believe in Jesus. Much the disciple after that, right? Teach all things that Christ taught you to someone else. Well, we can't do that until what? They first know Christ. So let me ask a question.

How many here love to evangelize the lost? One person two people. Now I am known for my evangelism. I have been doing open-air Evangelism, that's what I called it before. I knew of Ray Comfort and he calls it open-air preaching.

I prefer open-air evangelism as far as I could date back to 1994. I've been doing it longer than that, but that's as far back as I can date. So I started when I was one. Thank you. The the thing is I get nervous every time when I evangelize.

Now I'm gonna do so it's a conference, but I want to have some interaction with this. I would like to know who is the hardest person to evangelize. So just shout out who do you think would be the most difficult person to evangelize?

Family, okay, so we got family. Anyone have some someone else religious people. Co-workers, how about them? They easy? That could be hard. You could lose your job complete strangers. Some people don't mind meeting new people.

Some do. You know who the hardest person to evangelize actually is. The first person you witness to that day. The second one actually gets easier. One of the things that we used to do is we would take people out and evangelize and say okay.

We're gonna keep you out here for like three hours. You have to talk to at least six people. Because by six people you get into a rhythm and then they just stay for hours after that because it's like oh, hey I'm answering the same question over and over again, and you know happens the next week when you come out again.

We have this fear. Why do we fear evangelism now what I'm gonna do in this session is Go over about six hours of notes. Well, it is. Obviously, I'm gonna have to skip some but it's it's one of our weekend seminars.

We do where we come into churches and train people to evangelize. Because what we try to do is help people overcome the fear in evangelism. Because the thing is we have a responsibility to the lost. So we started with our responsibility of God our responsibility of scripture that leads us to our responsibility to world to make disciples.

But in order to do that, the first step is we have a responsibility to the unbeliever which is to evangelize and If you're anything like me You are afraid. In fact, let me tell you how even though I've been doing this for More years than I want to admit right for over 30 years I Still get nervous evangelizing.

So several years ago. This is back. What's that? We can't count everything right BC before kovat. So This is probably about seven years ago I started. I had started up a new team that we'd go to on the boardwalk to evangelize and they always made me start.

So I'd get up on this box to share the gospel. What I did not know for an entire summer is that my team Wanted me to go first because it gave them great joy to watch me. Get on a box get off the box open my Bible get on the box open my Bible get off the box.

Get on the box. Just stand there like this and and there they told me my record was seven times getting on and off the box and about six minutes before I opened my mouth. Because I'm afraid and I do it.

I would do it every week. But as soon as I got started It's not so bad. And even knowing that I knew it wouldn't be so bad. I still got nervous. So why do we fear? What I want to do is Talk about why we do evangelism.

This is something that We event why we evangelize. And part of the thing is, you know, the church lacks this. This is a major issue in in the American Church for sure. Where there is a lack. There's a need for evangelism and and I want to give you what we call ambassador evangelism.

Okay, there's gonna be three steps to it. And so as we we dig into this Why should we evangelize. Well, let's give the Sunday school answer Jesus. Right. Jesus did it. Jesus evangelized. He also commanded it.

Matthew 28 19 and 20. We just looked at that part of making disciples is first. To evangelize because you cannot make a disciple until they know Christ. Which means any believer in Christ by the way can make a disciple if you are a newborn babe in Christ.

You know how you got saved you can share that with others. Then what happens is they get saved and they start asking you questions then you're learning really grows. Then you actually become a blessing to your pastors because what happens is you start getting asked questions.

You don't know the answer to so you ask them and they help you in the scriptures and you start learning and then you pass that on. That's how we should be grown. The disciples practiced it. We see it throughout the scriptures.

We see the disciples going through and practicing that and Kind of a personal reason. Somebody did it for you. Are you glad someone did that for you? Someone might be glad you do it for someone else. And the last reason I give you is life is short.

We do not have a guarantee. For the next day, right? The reality is is when we think about evangelism We have to recognize the fact that. This is something that We are not just commanded to do. But this is something we have a privilege to do.

So let me ask you the question and I want you to give me some answers. Why are you afraid to evangelize or okay, let me change that because I know you're not afraid it's just me. Why are other people afraid to evangelize.

A lack of knowledge? Okay, that's that's very common what else huh. Not having all the answers. I Might look foolish. So I might ask me a question. I don't know the answer to. I'm gonna give you a great example that embarrasses me.

So you all get to laugh at my expensive with that. Yeah, we might feel like like someone isn't responding to us and makes us feel bad. Like maybe we weren't effective. Maybe we didn't say it the right way.

I'm married over in the UK. We were evangelizing at the Olympics and I remember seeing a guy that had that problem. He was evangelizing. But he was afraid he wasn't saying it the wrong the right way and he was actually chasing this poor couple down.

They just they were walking this way and then he'd follow him. He'd walk this way. They were literally I'm watching them pace back and forth and he's trying to convince them into the into the kingdom.

I'm like, it's okay. God actually created the whole world out of nothing. He could save a person. He could take what you said and they could walk away. Like you don't have to convince them right then and there what else what are some other reasons?

We're afraid. Yeah. Yeah, they know our weaknesses people. We know personally. That's why family seemed though is usually the number one reason that people give me at the hardest person to evangelize.

Because our family knows us don't they? Especially if we got saved later in life. And if you got saved out of you know, in my case, I got saved in a from a non-christian home and so. You know, we weren't expected to live like Christians so it's like oh we remember you when you were a kid.

It's amazing because you know, you could be 50. Well suit next week 57 and yet my siblings still act like they think I'm still a teenager sometimes. Right, and we've all grown up, you know, but yeah people we know what else anyone have anything else.

How about the the fear is sort of what you had said the fear of being rejected. My pastor said some my first pastor said something that has stuck with me. Ever since and he wasn't even saying it to me.

We would go out do open we go door-to-door evangelism every Saturday morning and we had we'd have a leadership training in the morning and then we'd go evangelize and One of the guys really didn't want to go and the pastor's talking to this guy and says what's why don't you want to go?

And he says well, I'm really kind of afraid that I'm you know, someone's gonna reject me and My pastor said so let me get this straight. You're concerned that someone you don't know and will probably never meet again.

Will reject you and the guy says, you know pastor when you say it that way it sounds kind of silly. And I'm thinking of my head that was gonna be my excuse right. Let's put it in context. How long will we be alive?

If we keep ourselves really healthy if I was to completely follow my wife's diet and everything she has for me. I should be a hundred. But I don't I'm bad but the reality is. We have to realize that even if it's a hundred years.

Even if someone if you're embarrassed by someone for a hundred years. Compare that to eternity 10 ,000 years from now. Will you be concerned that you didn't have all the answers? Will you be concerned that you got embarrassed that you were rejected?

That they knew your faults. You didn't have all the answer. You didn't have the knowledge on something. No. So actually, let me give you let me give you a clue for your years on you might not have all the answers.

If you're here last night, I actually actually gave it to you. I stand up in in New York and I will stand up and I'll start. I can answer any question you have about God in the Bible. Someone asked me a really hard question.

I go. I don't know. You said you have the answers for anything about God in the Bible. I do. I just gave you the answer. I don't know. That's my answer. It's a perfectly good answer and you go. Yeah, yeah, they're stuck because it actually is an answer, isn't it?

I didn't say I can give the answer. I just said I can give a answer. And then what I'll usually do is ask tell him well, I'll research it and see if I can get it get you an answer. Give me your email.

I'll contact you. Oh, no, I'm not. Yeah, you weren't interested in the answer either. Okay. Thank you. We don't have to have all the answers. In fact there's one guy in New York that respected me because when he asked me a question that I guess was his Trump question to ask every Christian that came to Union Square.

I go I don't know and he told me he says you're the first one of you Christians to answer honestly. He says the rest of you guys try to make up answers. The reality is that we don't have to have all the knowledge.

We just know someone who does. So we look to his word to see what it says and and so what I want to do is Just briefly go through The Number one thing that can happen in discussions and so we're gonna I'm gonna go through three points of our ambassador evangelism.

Okay, you want to disarm someone else's defenses? You want to disarm your own defenses and you want to avoid being called judgmental? And I give you ways to do all those because a lot of things especially in our culture people say you're judging.

Well, why avoid someone's defenses when you're talking to someone. People can get defensive. They start a debate any who here loves debates. Okay, so I'm the only one that was raised Jewish, I don't know okay, so two of you like debates, okay.

Sorry for your spouses. See growing up Jewish we would sit it over dinner and debate is something you just practice. It's a it's a way of actually sharpening the skill set. So what is the only profession you can get paid to debate.

Lawyers now, you know why so many Jewish people are lawyers. All right, so but How many don't enjoy a debate because most times when you have a debate the person you're talking to is not listening to you.

They're only listening for how they can find a crack and or a hole in your argument and poke at it. So we need an effective way to be able to communicate. Now one of the things we learn about people's the reason people can get defensive is people like to be right.

There's a great title of a book. I'm just going to tell you up front. Don't get the book. I met the author. It's probably not a good counseling book. Aaron kind of without even knowing it alluded to the title of it.

But as a counselor, I'm not surprised the title of the book. It's a marriage book. It's titled. I'm perfect. I just want my spouse to be also, you know, that's a lot of the problem in marriage counseling that I find.

Like one of the spouses think they're perfect. And they want the other one to just be like them. The problem is they're both doing that right? But we people like to be right and they always think they a lot of times they think they are and and there are Just personal issues that people will have they can get defensive.

You could say something that triggers someone. Right. People that get into debates while they like to win a debate. I have heard people say the dumbest things trying to win an argument. To the point where once in the boardwalk I this guy was making an argument and I asked him I said do you really believe that he goes?

No, man I'm just making it up because I have to I I can't handle you winning a debate. I'm like, well, that's good because I'm not debating you I'm having a discussion. Why don't we do that, right? People want to appear more knowledgeable.

Okay, there's actually there's actually a term for this the Dunning-Kruger effect. Where people pretend to be more knowledgeable on things that they are actually completely ignorant of. And so I want to be able to give you some ways to avoid that all right.

The first way is humor. To disarm someone's defenses humor. Why how does it help? Well, what what humor does is Humor ends up affecting us where we're less defensive. Now I have an advantage. None of you have okay, I Can make fun of myself?

Because I do the dumbest thing so I have lots of material to work with but I've discovered that when I make fun of myself it just the deed, you know just Disarms a person and just gets them to where they're they're laughing with me at me.

And so I've learned that doing that just helps but you know. One of the other things humor does it not just disarms them, but it gets them to enjoy the conversation. Okay. So how do you use humor? Well one way to use humor is The fact it's not try to be a comedian.

But it's also not to be so like thinking highly of yourself. Because the reality is a lot of times we won't use humor because of the simple fact that you know. Someone is saying something and it might make us look bad.

Are you okay with looking foolish in someone's eyes so that they hear the gospel? I am. There's there's actually video out on the internet. You can look for it. I think it's called Yukon professor goes ape.

I think we have one of the videos on our channel. But you'll the one we have. I actually put some words in there to explain what's happening but we had a bunch of and I didn't actually notice till I saw the video, but Is myself and a Yukon professor were having this discussion back and forth about evolution and the Bible?

Of course, it wasn't much of a discussion. He was trying to be a steamroller and just talk over me and At one point I pointed that out and I kind of shamed him in what happened was that there was a Jewish Guy in the audience that said is there anyone else Jewish here and I didn't hear this.

But they started to do a Jewish dance around me. Okay, it's a it's a Russian dance typically what you do is you sing how I'm a gilva and you Circle a person and if you're doing it in the Russian way. You have two people that will hold hands go down and they kick out their legs well I actually know how to do that dance and So I grabbed the ringleader without knowing it and just started to dance.

I grabbed him from the circle and I start making him dance with me and get down and he couldn't do it. So I just did it alone the entire crowd that he's trying to get on his side started to laugh with me and I was able to get to sharing the gospel.

In little things you could do when I share the gospel one of things I'll always do is I'll ask have you have you ever? Lied people say yes. What does that make you it makes you a liar? I'll say have you ever stolen something?

What they say yes, what does that make you they stay a stealer? My Common response though. They may never heard it only once I say this thousands of times. No, that's a football team in Pittsburgh. Which they laugh at?

Now have I ever watched the Pittsburgh Steelers play a game? No, I don't do team sports. I Do as Aaron said mixed martial arts and tennis. I must only like individual sports. So so the first way I disarm someone's defenses is the use of humor.

Second is being polite. The use of humor and being polite. How does being polite help? Especially in our culture where people are not polite just referring to someone in a respectful way. Now I used to say you say sir or ma 'am, but that could get you in trouble these days.

Don't worry I have a solution to that. We in New York City where you were fined quarter of a million dollars if you miss. You know use someone's wrong pronoun. I had someone just picture the scene in your mind.

I don't have a picture unfortunately, but I think he was prior between six four six five Big beard polka-dot dress and So much makeup. I thought he was a clown and He said you have to refer to me as her.

And if you don't I'm calling the police. I Said is that your pronoun? He said yes, it is. I said, okay, my pronoun is your majesty and you have to bow when you say it. I'm not doing that. Well, if you don't respect my pronoun, I'm not respecting yours and I called him he.

Because I had it on recording on my video camera but We want to be polite. So I we used to go to the courthouse every you know the beautiful thing about our courthouses is public property and Ray Comfort from Living Waters used to have a track designed for courthouses tells you what to expect in the courthouse.

Explains justice our justice before God is a great gospel tract and we'd go to the courthouse and nice thing about courthouses. Every week they bring in depending on your town lots of people. We would we in our town would have between three to six hundred people every week that would come in for jury duty.

It was beautiful. Every week we got a whole new group of people to hand tracts to there were three people that worked at the courthouse. Friends of mine who had been there for years before me said that person will never take a gospel tract.

Those three people took gospel tracts from me. You know why? First one walked walking past me and she's like no, I don't want it. I said well have a nice day, ma 'am. Literally, that is all I said she turned around came with me.

Thank you. I'll take one one gentleman. I just said I hope you have a nice weekend. It looks like it's gonna be beautiful weather because it was on a Friday. He turned around took one. Is that so hard?

Actually, not that hard. Especially in a culture nowadays where everyone thinks that they're entitled to everything. Right, so so we disarm their defenses by using humor and being polite. And these are things you could practice everywhere.

Now I'm not saying to be a comedian, but it's just the idea of lightening up the conversation. Let the gospel be the offense and not ourselves. The gospel is offensive. But we want to let the gospel be the offense and not us.

Okay, so the second thing is That we could be defensive. So we have to disarm our own defenses. We not only does the person we're talking to have pride but guess who else has a pride problem. We do right.

Do people want to listen to arrogant people? Uh-uh pastor George was telling us and and last night Aaron referenced it the guys in in I guess Watertown with the sandwich boards. Have any of you seen those people?

They're just so wonderful to talk to aren't they? No, because they're typically the most arrogant people. That a lot of them that do that. They believe in what's called sinless perfection. So they don't believe that they sin.

I've always told them a friend of mine Matt slick has said this and I've stole it from him. But give me ten minutes. I bet I can make you sin. I can irritate you enough that you get angry. I Haven't actually done that with these sinless perfectionist, but but they sit there and just judge everybody like they think they're the Holy Spirit.

Right. We have to be careful of it, so I told you I promised you I'd give you an embarrassing story. Does anyone know how many chromosomes there aren't a human being? Okay, 46 the answer that someone was gonna say it.

I know they were going to all right. So this happened when I'm in I'm in Freehold, New Jersey. I'm standing on this ledge preaching the gospel guy walks up to me. Comes up from my right side and he says Christians are stupid.

I said really. Can you prove that he goes. I said what makes Christians stupid? He goes, I'll prove it. How many chromosomes are in their human being? I Said 46 he goes how many from the mother? 23 how many from the father?

23 he goes see that's how stupid Christians are. You can't divide 23 by 2. Remember what I said earlier about people that make really bad arguments because they don't want to seem like they lost and In my brilliance or not.

I looked at him and said You're an idiot. You don't divide 23 by 2 you divide 46 by 2 and he just walked off and Okay, so I got ADD. I do multiple things at once so as I continue preaching I'm sitting there thinking like what just happened there and I realized.

What he did was in him making me look arrogant and and calling him out and calling him names. He felt justified in his pride to walk away from that conversation. Feeling justified and not listening to the message.

So I did what every one of you would have done. I know this I'm sure I prayed and asked God for forgiveness and I said Lord, can I get a second chance with the guy and Sure enough here he comes from my left side.