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A Lesson In Evangelism From Philip And The Ethiopian Eunuch
Contributed by Paul Green on Jul 12, 2022 (message contributor)
Summary: When Philip introduces the Ethopian Eunuch to Jesus – he does it God’s way. Philip wasn't an Apostle like Peter, a missionary like Paul, or a pastor like Timothy. He was a deacon, a servant of the church, an ordinary, average man who just couldn’t keep God to himself.
One morning a thought entered his head – catch a taxi. The taxi driver asked him ‘are you going to the conference?’, ‘Yes, I am’, ‘Are you a Christian’, ‘Yes, I am’, Where are you from? ‘I come from Sydney’. ‘Oh’, said the taxi driver, ‘I have a sister who lives in Sydney, she isn’t very well. If I gave you her address do you think you could pay her a visit’. ‘Of course’, said Bernard, ‘where does she live’? ‘She lives in William Street, Granville’. Bernard said, ‘I live in William Street, Granville’.
How many taxis are there in Adelaide? 6 or 7 thousand perhaps. How many streets in Sydney – 4 or 5 million? You see, the thought ‘ catch a taxi’ came from heaven. But Bernard didn’t catch any old taxi, he catches the one whose driver just happened to have a sister who lives in the same street as the pastor and needs someone to visit.
Bernard knocked on her door. Her name was Dagmar, she had been in a broken relationship, she was drinking a bottle of whisky a day. She never opened the curtains because the day depressed her. She had two dogs, but she never let them out, the house was filthy and foul. She had given up on life. Then this little Sri Lanken pastor knocks on her door and says, ‘God has told me to come and tell you that he loves you’. A few months after that, he had the pleasure of baptising her.
'Evangelism is the sob of God over the world'. I want to say that God loves people, no matter who they are, no matter what they have done, no matter what their background. God loves people and he calls his church – he calls you and he calls me to love them too. But don’t do your evangelism with a scatter gun affect – you know hit everyone you meet with the gospel in the hope that someone might be affected.
• Look for those who are already on a spiritual journey
• Be sensitive to God’s prompting
• Be obedient to God’s leading
• Keep your witness based in Bible truth.
‘The fields are ripe unto harvest – but the workers are few. Ask that the lord would send out workers into the harvest field, and pray that we might be numbered amongst them.’
