To evangelize means to proclaim the good news of the gospel of Christ. Jesus in giving the Great Commission to the eleven apostles says in Matthew 28:19-20, "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things I have commanded you." Imagine that Jesus saying these words to eleven of us today and we were one of the eleven. What would be our reaction? Impossible? Incredible? Absurd? Or Lord don't you see there are only eleven of us? Or would we think "Yes Jesus really means me also." We are also under this obligation to teach others. Jesus had just commanded the eleven to go teach and to teach those who were converted to observe all things he had command them which included that we are also to be taught to go and teach.

Paul says in Romans 1:14, "I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise." In like manner today we are debtors to every non-Christian because we have the good news that can save his soul. This places us under obligation to share the gospel with the lost so they can be saved. Because someone loved us enough to teach us the truth, shouldn't we do as much for someone else? What if you were unsaved and doomed to Hell, wouldn't you want someone to teach you the saving gospel of Christ?

If people have not heard and learned the gospel they cannot obey it. In 1 Peter 4:17 the question is asked, "What shall be the end of those who do not obey the gospel?" The answer is given in 2 Thessalonians 1:8 which says when the Lord comes He will come "In flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ." We should not want to see anyone lost but as Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5:11, "Knowing the terror of the Lord we persuade men." People are going to be lost forever if we don't teach them now!

The Lord doesn't want anyone to be lost. We read in 2 Peter 3:9, "The Lord...is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance." They can only come to repentance when they know what to do. We also read in 1 Timothy 2:4, "Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to a knowledge of the truth." Because of what the Lord has done for us, we have the obligation to teach others so they can come to a knowledge of the truth and be saved. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 9:16, "Woe is to me if I preach not the gospel." How are we going to answer the Lord if we haven't bothered to tell the good news to others?

Our Lord in teaching His disciples, tells them in John 4:35, "Do you say there are still four months then comes the harvest? Behold I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields for they are white already to harvest." Our Lord was speaking of the spiritual harvest of souls who would be lost in eternity if they are not harvested. There is an urgency to teach the lost for Jesus says in Matthew 9:37-38, "The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest." We must work in the Lord's harvest because if we don't then those we could have taught will be lost and we don't want that to happen.

In the first century the good news of the gospel caused such great excitement that "And daily in the temple and from house to house they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus" (Acts 5;42). We need to be as excited today. And even when they were being heavily persecuted, some even to death, we read in Acts 8:4, "Therefore those who were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word." What should stop us today? We are not being persecuted. We have many more advantages. We have the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, the Internet, and the printed page. We are without excuse.

Teaching the lost is the work the Lord has commanded each of us to do. Successful evangelism is accomplished one person at a time. Evangelism is not only to be done in distant lands, but we must also teach those near us, our next door neighbors. God will be with us as we teach His word to the lost. We will be successful because we read in Philippians 4:13, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." When we do what the Lord says to do we will not fail.

When we teach the lost we cause all of Heaven to rejoice. Jesus tells us that there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God when one sinner repents (Luke 15:7, 10). The joy of teaching one the gospel and seeing them obey it is beyond description.

I know Christ said to expect this kind of SLANDER (a maliciously false tale or report) from such as you and I have noticed before your "child molester and drunk" comment.

Do you have proof for this statement or is this just another of your usual diarrhea of the mouth utterances???

I really don't give a bucket of p.. for anything you say, but just wondering as I have searched high and low(your way) and can only find accusations such as he said he said she had said what he said he told me she said, etc. In other words, called hearsay.

What say you? Have any proof?? If you do you need to print an article and post it on Google,YouTube, etc. and become famous and endearing to all your sun-god-day comrades, the man (it is HWA you call that is it not)is long dead and can not defend himself so go for it!!!

You responded just as I figured you would, with nothing more than superficial fluff. Trust me Sonny, if I decided to expose the falsehoods, lies, the mental manipulations, the physical and spiritual abuses the COG has cleverly but subtly exposed its followers too, it would be easy and by the small chance you had any brains at all you too would have to condemn your own splinter cult. But no, that won't happen will it? For you, it is easier to bury your head in the sand with your butt in the air as you continue to make an ass of yourself.

Seriously y'all, just when we thought Armstrongites could not get any dumber along comes Sonny out of the woodwork. So off base with his false accusations of everybody being followers of the RCC and as a matter of fact falsely labels and connects Real Christians with the RCC as our "fathers" and accuses us of worshipping some Sun God?! What a narcissistic idiot!

Sonny despises Real Christians and has labeled us as frauds and false Christians. Like any true Armstrongite splinter cult member he knows it all! Remember folks, they alone are the ONE and ONLY "true congregation/church" the "little flock" that follows the truth of Jesus Christ. But, how do we know this is not true, another lie from the COG!? They are self incriminating by strictly adhering to all the useless laws of Judaism and have made Sabbath worship the centerpiece of their belief system. Exclusivism! This clearly appeals to the hardline Armstrongite and Sonny is leading the pack. How do we recognize the rest? Easy, they try as hard as they can to be Jewish while worshiping HWA's teachings.

BTW, you keep on searching for answers in regards to HWA molesting his own daughter. His family knows it's true, the church knows it's true but most importantly, God KNOWS he's GUILTY! The reports and personal testimonies concerning this pigs conduct are out there everywhere. No paper tigers, that's your deal! Had this so called "man of God" been tried by his peers he would have been hung by the neck from a tree or shot or burned alive or perhaps all of the above because of how disgusting and vile his crimes were. This coward was able to successfully hide behind his lawyers (paid for by the church) for years while his family and congregation suffered in silence so do NOT try to tell us he didn't have a chance to defend himself, it's insulting!

I guess what disgusts me the most is while you continue to support his ministry you still have the nerve to come here and try to tell US how to worship and live. THAT is so indicative of your type!

Also, you say you don't care about anything I say? Good! You won't hear from me again as long as you keep that filthy, insulting, lying mouth of yours off my friends and once and for all, stop with the name-calling! Like it or not, that IS the deal! You started this crap with your insulting name-calling but I will see it to the end and will not go away until your childish behaviours and immature attitude towards my friends and all the other members of this forum ceases.



Sarge

Here we go again, when the table gets turned back on y'all like telling sarge the same thing he said to me then it's time to run crying to mother moderator