Every Monday our team meets for «Благовместие» - it’s a time when we go out
together to do evangelism. We love the
play with words: “благовествие" = "to share the gospel" + "вместе" = "together” = «благовместие». Why do evangelism together? We have several reasons:
·
it keeps us accountable to take the initiative
to go out to share the gospel,
·
one of us is usually courageous when another of
us is not so courageous, so the courageous one helps the not-so-courageous one
be more courageous,
·
one person can pray while the other shares,
·
when one person doesn’t know what to say, the
other can jump in,
·
we can encourage each other through our fears of
sharing the gospel,
·
we can rejoice together at what we saw God do
and how He used us to help a non-Christian begin to think about their
relationship with God.
We have started going through together a short series of
studies on “Heart-motivated Evangelism”. We meet for 30-40 minutes to go through one
of the studies and to pray together just before we go out to share the
gospel. We divide up into pairs and go
to a campus or to a specific place together on campus to share the gospel for
1-2 hours, and then we come back together at the end to talk about what we
learned about sharing the gospel and what we saw God do. We finish by praying for the people we talked
to about the gospel.
On the last 2 Mondays we have shared the gospel with 6
Muslim guys, a Chinese student and a Russian guy as well as have tried to start
spiritual conversations with students from Ecuador and Libya.
This is the highlight of our week. I encourage you to «Благовместие», even if there are just two
of you.