The Calling of God (Part 1)

2 Timothy 2:2 "And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also."

 Growth in the human body starts with one cell of life. That cell multiplies over and over again until a human baby is formed.  After birth, the process continues in the child.  Human cells continue to multiply and growth occurs.  The same is true in the spiritual world.  Each person who has experienced new life in Jesus is similar to a living cell in the human body.  Each believer must reproduce spiritually. The Gospel is spread as believers continue to increase in this way. You have a personal responsibility in this spiritual process. You will learn of the plan of God for personal evangelism which makes "1 plus 1" more than two. 

The challenge of Jesus to believers is to reach the entire world with the Gospel according to both Matthew 28:19 and Acts 1:8.  Today we live in a growing world.  Thousands of new human beings are born each day.  The population of the world is increasing rapidly. There are many unreached people groups in the world who have never heard about Jesus.  These groups consist of millions of individuals who have not yet been reached with the Gospel. Many villages and communities have no church.  In many nations, there are not enough trained pastors for the churches that do exist.

So how can we ever achieve this great challenge of Jesus to reach the whole world with the Gospel?

God has a special plan for reaching the world with the Gospel.  Jesus summarized it when He told His disciples in Acts 1:8:

"But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth."

Here is God's plan: The Holy Spirit is the divine power behind the evangelistic process, Jesus Christ is the content of the message, and the whole world is to be the recipient of the message.

Disciples are the agents of the message.  God's method is for each disciple to bear "witness" of the Gospel message.  To "witness" is to tell what you have seen, heard, or experienced.  In a court of law, a witness is one who testifies about someone or something.  As  a witness, you are to testify  about Jesus and His plan for the salvation of all mankind.  There are two kinds of evidence presented by witnesses in a court of law.  One is testimony which is verbal witness about the subject.  The other is evidence which is visible proof.

The Holy Spirit helps you bear witness to the Gospel both verbally and through the demonstration of God's power.