Each week for at least the past thirty weeks we have been looking at the book of Acts and as a result very naturally, we have had a repeated emphasis on taking the gospel message out into the world. As you hear, week after week, the encouragement to be involved in evangelism with friends and neighbors you probably go through a number of emotions. The work we are to do, is evangelism.
Evangelism is the work of telling the good news.
Evangelists are messengers of good. But whereas telling is our job, saving is God's job. Too often we confuse His job with ours. History is the record of God redeeming a people to be His own through the revelation that salvation was to be had in God's provided Redeemer, Jesus Christ. The book of Acts is a combination of the record of man telling and God saving.