Creating an Evangelism Culture
A few weeks ago I stood in front of our students at our weekly evangelism training meeting and told them I was the worst evangelist in the room. They laughed, but I was being serious. I turn green with jealousy when I meet people with the gift of evangelism. You know the people I’m talking about. You go to the grocery store with them to pick up one thing and they are like, “let’s get hot sauce and a soul!” You can’t take them anywhere without someone hearing the gospel! That just isn’t me. But just because I don’t have the “gift of evangelism” doesn’t mean I’m exempt from sharing the gospel. If I’m gut-wrenchingly honest, though, when I came to my campus five years ago I was worried about my lack of experience and ability in sharing the gospel. I wanted to lead a ministry that was unapologetically evangelistic, but we weren’t. I didn’t know how to create a culture of evangelism and I wasn’t sure on where to start. However, looking back over the past year we have seen an ev