Six Benefits of Evangelism for Discipleship
Six Benefits of Evangelism for Discipleship By Brian Parks “Evangelism changed my life.” John, my taxi driver, told me this as we drove down the Orlando freeway toward the conference I was attending. Our conversation had quickly turned to faith when he discovered I had not come to Orlando for Disney World like most of his passengers. “What do you mean?” I asked, fully expecting him to explain how someone had led him to Christ. But that is not what he meant. He meant that doing evangelism had changed his life. He explained: “Learning to share my faith brought so many important issues into focus. It has made me work through things I had never thought about before. And, boy, after you lead someone to Christ you never forget it. It’s like you can’t stop! There’s nothing like it!” John’s testimony to the spiritually invigorating effect of sharing one’s faith resonated with everything I have experienced in my own walk with Christ and in 22 years of student ministry and church leader
