Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: We'll go back to Acts, chapter eight.
Acts, chapter eight.
We're looking at the Ethiopian eunuch and Philip's conversation with him as we look at this narrative as a case study in our school of evangelism. I think today the Lord will help us. We'll see some. Some more things about this, their conversation that should be and hopefully will be helpful to us as we seek to give the gospel to people.
So let's read. Let's just go ahead and read it one more time.
Verses 26, down through the end of the chapter, it says this. And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, arise and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. And he arose and went. And behold a man of Ethiopia and eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, was returning and sitting in his chariot read, esaias, the prophet. Then the Spirit of the Lord. Then the Spirit rather said unto Philip, go near and join thyself to this chariot. And Philip ran thither to him and heard him read the prophet Esaias and said, understandest thou what thou readest? And he said, how can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
The place of the scripture which he read was. He was led as a sheep to slaughter. And like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth. In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. And who shall declare his generation for his life is taken from the earth? And the eunuch answered Philip and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? Of himself or of some other man? Then Philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached unto him Jesus. And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water. And the eunuch said, see, here is water. What doth hinder me to be baptized? And Philip said, if thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And he commanded the chariot to stand still. And they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch. And he baptized him. And when they were come up out of the water, the spirit of the Lord caught away Philip. That the eunuch saw him no more. And he went on his way rejoicing. But Philip was at Azotus, and passing through he preached in all the cities till he came to Caesarea. All Right. Would you pray with me this morning?
Father, we thank you for the chance to meet together as your people here this morning. Lord, I'm mindful of those who would be here but just cannot. Sister Karen and Linden, Wayne, Yarlie and others, Lord, that are just struggling, have had surgery and. And our just Sister Judy and others, Lord, please give grace to them even as they listen to the messages via the Internet and that kind of thing. I pray that you would help them and strengthen them, just like we pray that you would do it with us here this morning.
So, Lord, we ask your blessing on our Sunday school as we look at this subject in the school of evangelism, to be better equipped to give the gospel to people, that we might be more skilled in this work of sharing the Gospel. And so, Lord, guide us. Give me wisdom to know what to say, to help your people, to answer questions, to give direction, to make your word plain that we all might understand and grow from it. In Jesus name, amen.
So just a little bit of review. We've seen, first of all, that the, you know, in the variety of types of people that we might meet, we've looked at Nicodemus, we've looked at the rich young ruler, we've looked at the various various other people in the New Testament, and we've seen that, you know, there is a different approach that's taken in each case, and there's different things you have to be aware of in each one. And in this case, the eunuch, we can see that he was a religious man because he's coming from Jerusalem where he had been worshiping. And then we also saw that, you know, he was coming from Jerusalem. He had his Bible with him, which was in that time, especially a very, very expensive thing to have. You know, we think of, you know, he had a Bible like this. Of course, this is a Bible, this in codex form. That is, it has pages like this. But that's kind of a recent thing, really in history. Used to be writing was in scrolls primarily, but. And it's likely that he didn't have the whole Old Testament, because that wasn't actually until much later that the Bible was compiled into one book. But he had, at a minimum, he had part of at least the book of Isaiah. And so he's reading his Bible as he's walking from, or traveling from Jerusalem back down to Ethiopia. So you can see there's a prominent place of the scripture in this.
In this passage of scripture. And we talked about how that the scripture, although God reveals himself in nature, this man has, if you will, a leg up. And because he has the greater revelation of the scripture that he can learn from, rather than just nature and God's creation.
And so he had become acquainted with the Scripture. I'm just reviewing a few things. He believed it, but even though he believed it, he was familiar with the scripture. He did not understand the Scripture. And that is a major problem. There's a lot of people, I'm talking a lot of people, especially around here, which is the people we mostly talk to and see and interact with. You know, there's a lot of people who know the Bible, who are familiar with the Bible, they know Bible verses, and many of those are not skeptics. Many of those actually believe it and hold it in high regard, and yet they do not understand it, in other words, that when they read the scripture, they have a complete. They come to a completely different conclusion based. Usually based upon one part rather than the whole.
They come to a completely different conclusion as to the point of the Bible, as to its main theme and main truths, than what the Bible actually says. So we have to be careful of that.
You know, there are people that think the whole. The entirety of the Bible is about love. Well, that's not true. That's not true. I mean, love is definitely part of the Bible, but that's not the whole of the Bible.
There's some people that think the whole of the Bible is about laws and rules and regulations, and that's part of the Bible, but not the whole of the Bible. So basically, they get hooked on one thing. And even though they maybe haven't read the whole thing, or even if they've read it without the illumination of the Spirit of God, I mean, it's going to be difficult for them to take away that truth. You know, here's what it comes down to. The most important point for us to take away is we are necessary.
If people are going to understand the Bible, we have to be involved.
And if we're not, and I say we, I'm not necessarily referring to our church as if we're the only people, but definitely God's people have to be involved in that process. Was it not true here?
If Philip had not been there, what would have happened? Just brainstormed a little bit. If Philip had not been there, this man would have done his, you know, finished the book of Isaiah. I assume a few 13 chapters later, he would have been done.
And he would have been. He would have gone to Ethiopia, never knowing whether Isaiah 53, which is what he was reading, referred To a man or Isaiah or another man. Certainly he never would have been introduced to the man Christ Jesus, as seen in that prophecy. He never would have. Here's the point.
Philip was necessary. That's why God put him there. Philip was necessary, else he would not have understood.
That's where a lot of people are. They're familiar with the Bible. They know the Bible, they believe the Bible even they think they have an understanding of what its main teachings are. But when it comes down to it, they just don't get it. And the reason they don't get it is because that's our job to help them get it. It's our job to share the truth with them and explain it to them.
So if we're silent, if we do not take that responsibility, and here's what we do, and listen, this is true for all of us. Here's what we do. We assume somebody else is going to do that.
That's what we do. We assume somebody else is going to take that step.
And of course, myself as an individual and you, yourself as an individual do not have, you know, you don't know everybody. You can't get the gospel. You can't get the Bible to every person as an individual. But there's a group of people around you that you can get the gospel to. And that's the people that you know. You think of missionaries, what do missionaries do? All they do is they essentially change the people that they are around to get the gospel to a new group of people. That's basically what is involved. They move themselves.
And so therefore they have a new set of people around them. Right?
People that otherwise would not have known, would not have had access to the gospel. But just think about ourselves. So the people around us, we can't assume other people are going to talk to them about the Lord and explain the Gospel. And if we don't, they might very well go away ignorant and still not understand the Gospel, even though they have a reverence for God's word.
Remember that God gave the scripture primarily to his people. That's the key. It's true in the Old Testament with Israel, it's true in the New Testament. And even think of those times where God gave scripture, intended some of the minor prophets intended for Gentile kings and nations. He gave it to Hebrew prophets to give to them, like Jonah as an example. God's message went to the Ninevites by means of God's people, Jonah. And that's true of us. He gave the Bible to us because we are the ones who have the spirit of God and the illumination to understand it so that we can help others understand it.
But if we don't, if we don't, there will absolutely be affected negative effects from that.
And so we saw the importance of the scripture. We saw he believed it. We saw that a person must, in order to be saved, it is a requirement that a person accept scripture as God's word and the source of truth.
We also saw that the Scripture is not just a matter of intellectual understanding, but it also comes with. Attached to it is personal and moral considerations. And that often determines not intellectual things and questions, but moral and personal considerations determine whether someone accepts it and believes it or whether they do not. We also saw that Philip knew the Scripture. Look at verse 25. We'll cover a little overlap a little bit.
25 is not right. It must be 35. Yes.
Verse 35 says this. Then Philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached unto him, Jesus. So what does that tell you?
That tells you that Philip was familiar with the scripture and knew it, such that when someone was reading it, he knew where they were reading and he knew what it meant. And he was. His revolver was cocked double action. How many of you like revolvers? You prefer revolvers? Yeah, I like them double action. In other words, it was already cocked, ready to go. He knew the verse, you know, and that's the way we ought to be with the Bible when it comes to. When it comes to, you know, interacting and giving the gospel to the people. And I'll say this on this point as well, because you see it with Philip.
One of the reasons I think there's so much biblical ignorance among Christian people is because they don't witness, they don't share the gospel with anybody ever.
Because when you do, you are forced to learn things because people ask questions.
You have to be able to articulate, at least on a basic level, your own faith, the gospel that you understand and have believed.
And you want desperately, you and I want desperately to avoid the embarrassment of someone saying, well, you know, my grandmother used to read this verse to me. It said something like, by grace are you saved? Or something like that. And you're like, hmm, I don't know that verse.
You see, it forces you to know stuff, right? Because you're forced to interact with people and you don't want to be embarrassed when you don't know the verse.
And you know, and the more that you. More that you witness, the more that you share the gospel, what you'll find is the more things that you will be confronted with that. You'll have to learn. And you'll be like, well, I didn't really have a good answer. And you'll feel really bad about it. How many of you have been there? You didn't have a good answer. You felt bad about it. You went home. You know what you did? You looked it up and you were ready. Next time. And you won't ever get that question again. Don't worry.
You have it. You keep your gun. You keep your gun holstered and you keep that thing locked. It's chambered, safety's off, ready to go. And nobody ever asks that question again. That's the way it happens. Some of you know what I'm talking about. And whenever someone does ask you that same question, you about fall over yourself to give them an answer. And then it doesn't come out very well. That's the way it works. Just the way it works.
So listen to me, please.
The Christian life is not all about evangelism. You can't sum it up like that. There's a lot of other things that come along with that, but it is a major part. This is as far as our. As the church, our role and place in this world. We are here. We're not here to overthrow governments.
We're not here to. We're not here to, you know, to bring about wholesale change in society, as in without the gospel. We are here primarily to make Christ known. That's why we're here holding forth the word of life. That's why we're here. Now that has all kind of downstream effects and we're all glad for that. But the secondary effects are not primary. They're secondary. We leave that to God, okay? But the prime. That's why we're here.
That's why we're here. We're here to give the gospel to people. As far as our relationship to the world, it's our role, it's our duty, our job. So that's why we emphasize it, okay? That's why we emphasize both local evangelism as well as world missions, because it's the same command. Does both. Alright?
Although the Christian life cannot be summed up as only that, it is important.
And there is a part of the Christian life and sanctification and growth that comes from being involved in that part of the Christian life that you really can't get any other place.
You understand? You really can't get it any other place. The Lord has designed it so that you stepping out on that limb, feeling very awkward and insufficient and humiliated at times to share a gospel tract. And better yet, open your mouth and tell somebody about Jesus. That will help you grow.
That will help you grow.
And that's one reason why some people don't grow.
They're reading their Bible at home. But they need to be thrown into the fray with people who are, who are not friendly to their message. Here's the thing, and there's. I'm off my, off my list now, but just hang. I'm almost done.
That's one of the effects, the negative effects of never sharing the gospel and never engaging people on the subject of the gospel and eternal life except in church is we start to get the idea that the world likes us.
I'll tell you, I'll be directly.
I'm just gonna be as transparent as glass with you right now. Okay?
Some of you do not like to speak in front of people and that's perfectly fine.
If you want to compare preaching on the street corner or sharing the gospel with a complete stranger in downtown greenville, I would 10 times rather be in the pulpit preaching than that.
That's me. You know why? Because I know when I talk up here, all of you basically agree, right? I mean, there might be one or two things. I mean, generally you all are going to nod even if it hurts a little bit, right? You're going to nod.
We got to get out there because this world is not friendly to what we're saying. Not the gospel and not our morals and not scriptural truths are not friendly to it. I'm telling you, there's just not. And the Lord wants us to know that lest we think this world is our friend and they are not. Not even good church going Southern people, they're not friends to the gospel.
They're not. And if you have any doubt about that, go with us to downtown Greenville and especially go to downtown Greenville at night. You will find Baptist church members drunken letting you know that they don't want to hear about Jesus.
Yes, that. And this is what you know, and I've seen this. I mean I was from the time, almost the time I got saved, I've been doing ministry in Downtown Greenville.
Almost 9 out of 10 people that oppose what we do are Christian people.
Listen, all I'm trying to say is this. I'm not trying to cast aspersions on everybody that goes to a church. I'm just saying that we get this idea that this world is our friend and they're not.
And one reason we think that is because we don't ever interact with them outside of the church building where people have come by choice. Phil, there's a little ring. Can you kick it down a hair? I don't know what's.
We get the idea that everybody's our friend. And one of the best ways to dispel that and get a right view of where people are and where what they think of the Lord and actual scriptural truth is to be around them outside of this building. I'm glad. Hey, I'm glad when they come. I mean, of course I'm glad when they come, but the Lord wants us to have a well rounded view of this matter. All right, see you guys always trying to get me off topic here.
Okay, okay.
This eunuch's condition was much like people around us. Again, I'm overlapping a little bit because he was a man. Verse 34. Notice what he says. And the eunuch answered Philip and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? Of himself or of some other man? What you don't hear the eunuch saying is, I wonder if Isaiah is the true author of this book. That's called by his name. I wonder what the true historical accuracy of the authorship of the book of Isaiah. He wasn't doing that. He believed what he's reading. Okay, this is God's word. He accepted it. That's where most. That's where I say most. A lot of people around here are. They're like him. There's no question about that. It's the Bible and they accept it. You know, that makes. That makes our job a little bit easier. Does it not? A little bit. You could. At least you can start on the same basis. You might not come to the same conclusion, but you could start with the same basis. This is God's word. What it says is true. Period. Done.
That's where the eunuch was. That's a good place to be. That's a good place to be. He not only.
So there was no question mark on that subject. So we're looking. In other words, we're drawing water from the same well.
Okay.
Not only did he believe it and accepted the scripture, but he submitted himself to it. In other words, his disposition toward the Bible was right. He's looking at the prophet Isaiah and he has a certain humility about him, does he not? I don't know what this is saying. I need help.
Whatever it says is the truth. There's a certain submission to what God says. In that way, the Bible is already the basis of his faith. And because of that, he was much of the way already toward the kingdom of God, right? He wasn't, you might say, he wasn't far from the kingdom of God as Jesus said. And so what this does is this tells us, this example then tells us how to deal with people like that. And there are lots of people around here like that. Now Stephen, brother, brother Stephen comes from Southern California.
And that is not the way most people in Southern California. Am I right or am I wrong? Yeah, that is not the way they are. There's, you know, and different places and you know, when I was a missionary, many mission fields are not that way. This is just not accepted.
But this is one thing we deal with. We do deal with people who are, you know, religious and who accept the Bible and do so with humility and open heartedness.
Verse 31, look at what it says.
And he said, now remember Philip asked him in verse 30, understandest thou what thou readest? He said, how can I except some man should guide me see it? And he desired, verse 31, Philip, that he would come up and sit with him, this man. This shows us this man's overall disposition toward learning what the Bible said.
He asked Philip, when Philip said, do you understand it? Perfect question. Especially listen, if someone is interacting with the Bible in some way and you meet them and that does happen. For instance, you go to someone's house and we knock doors and you talk to them or something like that, and you see a Bible on the coffee table, you might ask yourself, do you read the Bible often? I see the Bible. Did you read often when you read it, do you get a lot from it?
That's a perfect open door, right? It's a perfect open door.
But notice this man said, in response to that question, he said, will you come up here and sit with me and help me understand? You see that the level of humility. See, most people, most people don't want to show that level of humility. And contrast that with his position. He's a man of a great authority.
He has control over all the treasury of a whole kingdom. Right? He has great authority. And yet you see this level of humility from a man who is of great authority, which is a little bit of a paradox.
Most people, I mean, you guys have interacted with people as well.
Most people do not want another person to know if they do not understand and are not willing for other people to explain it to them, even though they don't understand.
A lot of people are like that. That's a heart problem. That's not an intellect problem, that's a heart problem. It's pride.
And so it's striking that this man with such authority and power demonstrated such humility. And he did so to a complete stranger.
And so you see this man's disposition and listen, part of what we do when we evangelize, we try to know where people are. We try to diagnose. I mean, none of us really know. I mean, you can't see people's heart, but you can see indications of it. You try to diagnose, where is this person? Diagnose it, say, well, how do I deal with a person? I mean, we do it in our health, do we not? Someone all their cheeks are flushed and they don't feel good and they're achy and they have a fever. I mean, you don't have to be a doctor to know that they got a fever. I mean, right.
That's kind of the way it is with scripture now.
So what did Pete, what did Philip say? Let's move to the next thing. What did Philip say? Verse 35. Then Philip, then Philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached unto him, Jesus. I'm going to just give you some machine gun bullets here. Okay?
Number one, it is absolutely. Remember, he's reading Isaiah 53. It is absolutely possible to give someone the gospel using the Old Testament.
All you've got to do. Now, you can't do that without the New. You have to have the New Testament, obviously, but using New Testament truth, you just fill in the blanks of the Old Testament. It's there. It's just a matter of filling it in. And that's what he does. New Testament hasn't been written in full, at least at this point.
So it is absolutely possible to do that.
And really, what this question the man asked in verse 35, 34 rather, of whom speaketh the prophet this? Who is the servant of Isaiah 53? You know, that's a question that people still ask to this day. Orthodox Jews believe that the servant in Isaiah 53 is not a messiah figure, but is Israel. Corporately, they still get confused on this same question, even though it is directly addressed in the New Testament by a Jew. Philip. Right? They still this morning. And as we've gone through Matthew, I'm starting to see a trend. You know what that trend is? Who is Jesus?
Over and over and over. Who is this man? Who is this man? That's the question here. Who is this servant? It's just to put it together, right?
But notice I want you to see in verse 35, just as a reminder. I know I mentioned it before, but I want to show it to you again. Then Philip opened his mouth.
There is a necessity to actually open our mouths. Romans 10:14. In fact, take a peek there, if you would.
Just one book over. Romans, chapter 10, Romans chapter 10, verse number 14.
Of course, everyone I'm sure in here is familiar with this chapter and this verse, but just note it. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? You see that word preacher? I knew one guy in Cambodia, he got irritated. I made a video.
Me and Matt Brown made a video to talk about and promote the ministry of Cambodia and the need for missionaries and such. And he got. I let him listen to it and watch it and he got hung up on the word preacher. Don't get hung up on the word preacher. You know what a preacher is?
This is not me. It's not an ordained minister. That's not what it's talking about. This is talking about somebody to tell. That's all it is. That's it. How shall they hear without a preacher? Doesn't mean you need an ordained minister. It means somebody that's going to do like Philip and open his mouth. Right. That's what he did.
How shall they hear without a preacher? The answer to that question is they won't. They won't.
It is necessary that. Yes, sir.
Yeah. You can ask in verses such as.
[00:29:50] Speaker B: This and say, Ephesians 1:13, that a person must hear the gospel and then believe here. How shall they hear unless someone be sent and preach it? Do you believe that the reading of the word is considered in this passage when it says that I've got to hear it from a preacher? Do you believe that? Reading it for myself, like reading a tract, is just as included in this.
[00:30:15] Speaker A: Verse as hearing it on the medium is irrelevant. The medium changes. Even in the case of a gospel tract, a preacher put it on there. Whether even if a woman wrote it or a child wrote it, a preacher, that is someone who proclaimed the truth. They just put it in written form. So the same. The verse actually still applies. So it doesn't mean they have to hear audibly. It can be written, written down. The medium doesn't matter as long as they hear it makes sense. All right, let's go to move on here with our next point here.
Notice that Philip used the scripture, verse 35. Then Philip opened his mouth and began where he didn't have an apologetic argument, he didn't have a List of five steps to say some of this stuff. Listen. Some of it.
I'm about to go on a hobby horse here, okay? I remember seeing a book one time, early, I think it was in Pastor Craig's office. He had a lot of books that he didn't. So this was not an endorsement by him. It was just there. And I happened to look at it, and it said, how to Draw the Net. And it describes such stupidity as where to put your hand on someone's shoulder and the questions to ask in what order? And listen, that's ridiculous.
It's not a process. We're not manipulating people. We're not. We're not tricking people into getting saved, all right? If they don't know what's going on, if we're manipulating people, we're doing it. It's all wrong.
And what Philip is doing is he's simply. He doesn't have a grand argument or he doesn't have this huge doctoral thesis of what he's gonna say to this guy. No, he just starts at the Bible. He used the Bible.
He saw the Bible as his source of gospel truth. He didn't use cunningly devised arguments or some manipulative technique. His method, and this is true throughout Scripture, was the simple declaration of God's truth. You note that. The simple declaration of God's truth.
You know, here's the thing. If we're leaning on. When we're trying to tell the gospel to people, if we're leaning on arguments and things like that, there's value in all that. I'm not casting it completely out. But if we're leaning on that instead of on simply what the Bible says, we're leaving the simplicity that's supposed to be present in evangelism.
And because of this, this truth, even a man who is called notice this. Now even Philip, who is called an evangelist, right? He is specifically gifted for this ministry, is he not? So if there's anybody that's an expert, it's this guy. How did he do it?
The simple declaration of the Bible.
That's it.
Therefore, we could say this. You and I are not required to be an expert in order to share the gospel with people. We're not required to have answers to every question.
We will not.
We must only, number one, know the scriptures ourselves, and number two, be willing to open our mouth and declare the scriptures. That's it. It's really that simple.
Here's the trick, though. Here's the little.
The little dirty part of our life.
Most of us get hung up on the willingness to open our mouth.
That's the truth of it. If we're just honest, we're shy, we're embarrassed, we're ashamed, we're unwilling to open our mouth.
That's the bottom line.
That's the bottom line. And listen, I'm speaking to me as much as anybody in this room. It really comes down to, do I want other people to hear about Jesus? Am I willing? Do I want it enough to tell them?
That's really the question.
It's not that it's hard to do, but we really do. If we're going to follow Jesus like he said, and be his disciple in this way, which is obviously what the Lord did, we have to deny ourselves, right?
We have to say no. What makes me comfortable is not what's important. What's important is doing the will of the Lord.
And part of that is telling other people about Jesus.
That's hard to do. It's hard to do. You know, if you have a hard time with that. And listen, all of us do to some degree or another. That's just a fact. If you have a hard time with that, I would encourage you to start with the hardest people, your family.
If you have family members that you haven't shared the gospel with in any way, reach out to those people.
If you can do that, you'll be able to do it with other people as well. That's hard. That's hard work.
Notice in verse 35, we're almost finished here without the have to break off.
Then Philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture, notice the last phrase. And preached unto him, Jesus.
Is there a verse anywhere in the Bible that more aptly describes what it means to evangelize preaching Jesus?
This describes exactly what we're talking about when we evangelize. This is the core message, the gospel. The gospel message surrounds a person.
It is not about a method or a process. It is not about a set of laws or rules. It is not about a church or denomination. It is not about political issues or questions. The gospel is about Jesus, period.
Sometimes, even when we mean well, we get distracted when we start talking about, well, are you saved? Listen. And it's fine to ask people that are saved. I mean, we've already talked about this. It's fine to ask people that are saved. But if our whole conversation is about saved and we never actually talk about Jesus, we have not given the gospel to anybody, right?
But sometimes we do that. We get caught up in the jargon.
We talk about heaven, we talk about hell, but not Jesus.
We talk about our church.
Which church is right, which church is wrong.
Met one guy in the trailer park a couple weeks ago doing our evangelism and walked up to him. David walked up to him and was swiftly sent on his way, shall we say. And then I didn't know that David had talked to him. And I came after, and I saw that the guy, he said, so, are you Baptist? I said, yeah, we're Baptist. Are you Southern Baptist? No. I said, no, we're just Baptist.
He said, oh, I'm Southern Baptist.
I don't want to hear it. I'm Southern Baptist. You're a regular Baptist. So listen. He wouldn't give me the time of day on that cause. And there's nothing I can do about that because that's just the way it is. But listen, we don't talk. You know, people will engage you in that and say, oh, yeah, I used to go to an independent Baptist church and this and that and the other and this, that and the other. And, you know, they did this. That's not what it's about. It's about Jesus. Get back to Jesus. That's the message.
It's not about being a better person. It's not about a religion. It's not about debates over doctrines unless those doctrines directly touch on Jesus. It's about Jesus. Preach Jesus.
You know what you'll find if you venture out to tell people to give the gospel to people. What you'll find is it's easy to give the gospel to people if all you want to talk about is Jesus, because that's the best stuff to talk about anyway, right? There's no better subject to discuss.
Let's pray together.
