I hope my Southern Baptist Pastor isn't reading because I am about to start preaching! Here we go ...

God's plan is that those who have received His grace seek actively to persuade others to accept His divine, free, gracious offer to them. If I fail to invite others to be reconciled to God in Christ, I cease to be an agent of reconciliation, and I show signs of having received God's grace in vain.

Therefore, my involvement in evangelism helps me to share the treasure of God's grace. Person-to-person communication of the Christian faith is God's intended way of building the Church; it is the most credible form of demonstrating God's grace. I need to be involved in missions because God chose to send His Son to human beings. When I communicate God's intentions to others, through word and deed, the Good News is personalized, and it ceases to be theory or a set of abstract ideas. People are not born Christian. They become Christian.

Evangelization is the means by which people are introduced to the Good News of Jesus Christ. Christianity cannot long survive without evangelism. This is the logic that the Apostle Paul sought to impress on the Roman Christians: 'How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?' (Romans 10:14, NIV)

Have you taken the call, the command, to share the Good News seriously? When is the last time you shared the message of Jesus Christ with someone? How will they hear if you do not tell the story?