•Who is an Evangelist?
Simply put, an Evangelist is an announcer of the good news that God in Christ has paid the price of redemption of man from the yoke of Satan and sin and that new life is possible! The Evangelist is thus a megaphone through whom God declares in human language with great simplicity and clarity, that mankind has a hope and future grounded in the supreme love of God that was evidenced in the incarnation, life, passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ who will reign and rule in the coming dispensation.
Like Apostles and Prophets, Evangelists are specifically chosen by Jesus Christ Himself and vested with a measure of His authority and power to back up their assignment. Evangelists are represented by the long middle finger on the hand which indicates their special grace and ability to bring in the harvest more than any other member of the five fold.
By the nature of their calling and gifting, Evangelists are itinerant. They are at their best when on the go. That way they are not bogged down by familiarity with the audience or internal squabbles and emphasis on bread and butter issues which keeps the Church in maintenance mode.
What are the specific roles God assigns to His Evangelists within and without the Body?
The supreme passion of the heart of a truly called evangelist is that as many people as possible be saved from perishing in eternal damnation which is the logical end of those who reject Jesus Christ, the only lifeline that God has provided humanity.
In calling the five fold and vesting in them His leadership of the Church, Jesus Christ selects some people to bear His mantle as Chief Evangelist. He it is who spoke the word of life like no one else offering hope for the hopeless, the outcasts and breaking down all barriers that hindered people from approaching or relating with God. It was Jesus who gave women unrestrained access to His ministry. Even outcasts like the woman with the issue of blood could relate with Him and receive attention. So also were lepers able to relate with Him as well as prostitutes, the woman caught in adultery and the demonized beauty, Mary Magdalene! No Rabbi of His time and the generations before had liberalized human relationship with God in that manner.
In some of His parables, Jesus explained the rationale for His actions: the worth of a single soul! He therefore taught on the need where necessary, to leave 99 healthy sheep to seek out the missing one. He also taught about the prodigal whose father yearned for his return and gave a sumptuous feast to celebrate his recovery.
As part of His leadership development process, Jesus sent out His disciples to evangelise and gave them a measure of His authority. Matthew 10 5 – 15.
The grand project for which Jesus left the Church on earth following His resurrection and ascension to heaven is to ensure that lost humanity is reconciled to God by the supreme price He paid at the Cross of Calvary. For several millennia, man had been under the over lordship of Satan who took away the mandate of Adam in the Garden of Eden. That is how Satan became the Prince and god of this world..John 14: 30; 2 Corinthians 4: 3,4.
When God found no sacrifice as sufficient to atone for the sin of man, it was necessary for a sinless sacrifice with 3 key qualities. The first is that the sacrifice would be of the same class as man or higher. (Animals are of a lower nature than man and therefore not able to atone for the sin of Adam and Eve Hebrews 9:11-28). Secondly, the sacrifice had to be sinless. Animals and everything that grew on earth was part of the curse pronounced by God in Genesis 3:17-19. Thirdly, the sacrifice had to be so great as to atone for the sins of all humanity and redemption of the entire earth and all that is on it. No animal or human could meet these three extraordinary conditions. The solution is the greatest love story ever known: God had to beget a Son! God had to be made flesh! Divinity had to be laid be incarnated as the Seed of the woman in the most profound demonstration of the love of God! Genesis 3: 15; Luke 1:35; John 1: 1- 3; John 3:16; Philippians 2: 5-11. Please send an email to ariseoffice@yahoo.co.uk to request for a free copy of the definitive teaching note Understanding Jesus Christ.
To preach this profound, supernatural truth, Jesus knew that His Church would meet and contend with various dark forces and powers and that human reasoning would try to block people from receiving the truth. For this reason, He commanded His disciples not to proceed with the Great Commission until the Holy Spirit empowered them to witness boldly in His name. Acts 1:8. With the Holy Spirit came the general capacity to witness for Jesus and stand boldly before all manner of people and forces to proclaim that Jesus had paid the price for mankind to enjoy a relationship with God and freedom from Satan and all his powers including sin, fear and death!
Critical significance of the work of the Evangelist
Every Christian is called to preach the good news 2 Corinthians 5: 17 – 21, 1 Timothy 4:5, God has specifically called and anointed some with the special role of bearing His deep burden for sinners to be saved. For people to be built up in Christ the way they ought to be (Apostolic function) and even hear the message from the Lord (the Prophet’s function), they have to be first saved and brought into the family of God. This primal assignment is given to the Evangelist! His or her job is to bring them in, any how they are and leave the disciplining process (work of Pastors and Teachers) to take over. For this reason, the Evangelist usually does not engage in sorting or setting standards of behaviour for those who respond to the message of hope and love that is preached. What concerns the evangelist is that the sinner has made the critical decision of responding to the message of salvation that is preached!
Signs of the Evangelist
For this reason, the Evangelist does not bother much about doctrinal finesse. Dogma rankles them as well as all religious barriers that hinder people from coming into a living relationship with Jesus Christ.
Evangelists tend to keep the gospel message so simple that many religious minded folks often flinch in disbelief!
Evangelists are able to convey the love of God to sinners with remarkable clarity and ease.
Evangelists have extreme distaste for church politics, strife for positions, preferring to venture outside the familiar in and normal, in order to cast the net of salvation was widely as possible.
If the Church is to be alive again, there has to be regular infusion of new folks who have made the transition from sinner to saint. To come out of the maintenance mode and Laodecian mindset of Revelations 3: 14 – 19, there is a great need for Evangelists to rise in the dimension of their calling and take their rightful places to spread the net of salvation by grace far and wide again! All the evangelists who made themselves Pastors because they were unappreciated and rejected must give up the Pastorate and hit the road to do what God has called them to do. Pastors will need to be more secure and reach out to partner with itinerant evangelists, providing their needs so that they can get back to work!
…To be continued… Please uphold us in prayers as we download what the Lord is saying in the now. Pray especially that the Lord will send us those He has called to the ministry of helps who will take their places in London, England as we focus on our main assignment.
Note: This and all teaching notes of the Global School of Ministry are free of Babylonian copyright rules. The Word of God is freely received and is freely released so that His saints can walk in light. These downloads from eternity to time are offered free of charge. Please feel free to use them for personal edification or to teach/preach as the Lord prompts you. In the Kingdom of God, His gifts are not to be merchandized or subject to rules which make them available to only the few who can afford. Feel free to forward these teaching notes to all your friends and contacts. You will also be doing well to invite 5 – 10 friends to join the Global School of Ministry Group here on face book.
If you are called to the five fold and need help to recognize, pursue and fulfil same, please feel free to seek help and we will see what the Lord desires to be done to support you. Write to ariseoffice@yahoo.co.uk and we will take it from there.
Simply put, an Evangelist is an announcer of the good news that God in Christ has paid the price of redemption of man from the yoke of Satan and sin and that new life is possible! The Evangelist is thus a megaphone through whom God declares in human language with great simplicity and clarity, that mankind has a hope and future grounded in the supreme love of God that was evidenced in the incarnation, life, passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ who will reign and rule in the coming dispensation.
Like Apostles and Prophets, Evangelists are specifically chosen by Jesus Christ Himself and vested with a measure of His authority and power to back up their assignment. Evangelists are represented by the long middle finger on the hand which indicates their special grace and ability to bring in the harvest more than any other member of the five fold.
By the nature of their calling and gifting, Evangelists are itinerant. They are at their best when on the go. That way they are not bogged down by familiarity with the audience or internal squabbles and emphasis on bread and butter issues which keeps the Church in maintenance mode.
What are the specific roles God assigns to His Evangelists within and without the Body?
The supreme passion of the heart of a truly called evangelist is that as many people as possible be saved from perishing in eternal damnation which is the logical end of those who reject Jesus Christ, the only lifeline that God has provided humanity.
In calling the five fold and vesting in them His leadership of the Church, Jesus Christ selects some people to bear His mantle as Chief Evangelist. He it is who spoke the word of life like no one else offering hope for the hopeless, the outcasts and breaking down all barriers that hindered people from approaching or relating with God. It was Jesus who gave women unrestrained access to His ministry. Even outcasts like the woman with the issue of blood could relate with Him and receive attention. So also were lepers able to relate with Him as well as prostitutes, the woman caught in adultery and the demonized beauty, Mary Magdalene! No Rabbi of His time and the generations before had liberalized human relationship with God in that manner.
In some of His parables, Jesus explained the rationale for His actions: the worth of a single soul! He therefore taught on the need where necessary, to leave 99 healthy sheep to seek out the missing one. He also taught about the prodigal whose father yearned for his return and gave a sumptuous feast to celebrate his recovery.
As part of His leadership development process, Jesus sent out His disciples to evangelise and gave them a measure of His authority. Matthew 10 5 – 15.
The grand project for which Jesus left the Church on earth following His resurrection and ascension to heaven is to ensure that lost humanity is reconciled to God by the supreme price He paid at the Cross of Calvary. For several millennia, man had been under the over lordship of Satan who took away the mandate of Adam in the Garden of Eden. That is how Satan became the Prince and god of this world..John 14: 30; 2 Corinthians 4: 3,4.
When God found no sacrifice as sufficient to atone for the sin of man, it was necessary for a sinless sacrifice with 3 key qualities. The first is that the sacrifice would be of the same class as man or higher. (Animals are of a lower nature than man and therefore not able to atone for the sin of Adam and Eve Hebrews 9:11-28). Secondly, the sacrifice had to be sinless. Animals and everything that grew on earth was part of the curse pronounced by God in Genesis 3:17-19. Thirdly, the sacrifice had to be so great as to atone for the sins of all humanity and redemption of the entire earth and all that is on it. No animal or human could meet these three extraordinary conditions. The solution is the greatest love story ever known: God had to beget a Son! God had to be made flesh! Divinity had to be laid be incarnated as the Seed of the woman in the most profound demonstration of the love of God! Genesis 3: 15; Luke 1:35; John 1: 1- 3; John 3:16; Philippians 2: 5-11. Please send an email to ariseoffice@yahoo.co.uk to request for a free copy of the definitive teaching note Understanding Jesus Christ.
To preach this profound, supernatural truth, Jesus knew that His Church would meet and contend with various dark forces and powers and that human reasoning would try to block people from receiving the truth. For this reason, He commanded His disciples not to proceed with the Great Commission until the Holy Spirit empowered them to witness boldly in His name. Acts 1:8. With the Holy Spirit came the general capacity to witness for Jesus and stand boldly before all manner of people and forces to proclaim that Jesus had paid the price for mankind to enjoy a relationship with God and freedom from Satan and all his powers including sin, fear and death!
Critical significance of the work of the Evangelist
Every Christian is called to preach the good news 2 Corinthians 5: 17 – 21, 1 Timothy 4:5, God has specifically called and anointed some with the special role of bearing His deep burden for sinners to be saved. For people to be built up in Christ the way they ought to be (Apostolic function) and even hear the message from the Lord (the Prophet’s function), they have to be first saved and brought into the family of God. This primal assignment is given to the Evangelist! His or her job is to bring them in, any how they are and leave the disciplining process (work of Pastors and Teachers) to take over. For this reason, the Evangelist usually does not engage in sorting or setting standards of behaviour for those who respond to the message of hope and love that is preached. What concerns the evangelist is that the sinner has made the critical decision of responding to the message of salvation that is preached!
Signs of the Evangelist
For this reason, the Evangelist does not bother much about doctrinal finesse. Dogma rankles them as well as all religious barriers that hinder people from coming into a living relationship with Jesus Christ.
Evangelists tend to keep the gospel message so simple that many religious minded folks often flinch in disbelief!
Evangelists are able to convey the love of God to sinners with remarkable clarity and ease.
Evangelists have extreme distaste for church politics, strife for positions, preferring to venture outside the familiar in and normal, in order to cast the net of salvation was widely as possible.
If the Church is to be alive again, there has to be regular infusion of new folks who have made the transition from sinner to saint. To come out of the maintenance mode and Laodecian mindset of Revelations 3: 14 – 19, there is a great need for Evangelists to rise in the dimension of their calling and take their rightful places to spread the net of salvation by grace far and wide again! All the evangelists who made themselves Pastors because they were unappreciated and rejected must give up the Pastorate and hit the road to do what God has called them to do. Pastors will need to be more secure and reach out to partner with itinerant evangelists, providing their needs so that they can get back to work!
…To be continued… Please uphold us in prayers as we download what the Lord is saying in the now. Pray especially that the Lord will send us those He has called to the ministry of helps who will take their places in London, England as we focus on our main assignment.
Note: This and all teaching notes of the Global School of Ministry are free of Babylonian copyright rules. The Word of God is freely received and is freely released so that His saints can walk in light. These downloads from eternity to time are offered free of charge. Please feel free to use them for personal edification or to teach/preach as the Lord prompts you. In the Kingdom of God, His gifts are not to be merchandized or subject to rules which make them available to only the few who can afford. Feel free to forward these teaching notes to all your friends and contacts. You will also be doing well to invite 5 – 10 friends to join the Global School of Ministry Group here on face book.
If you are called to the five fold and need help to recognize, pursue and fulfil same, please feel free to seek help and we will see what the Lord desires to be done to support you. Write to ariseoffice@yahoo.co.uk and we will take it from there.
