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Inspiring Evangelism
The roots of SJSM’s nascent, somewhat enigmatic Evangelism Ministry (EM) are intertwined with various events, initiatives, and task forces — inevitable, really, since sharing the Word is an intrinsic part of discipleship. Comprising a small team of Evangelism Champions (ECs), the EM has been working to imbue our community with a strong sense of the importance of lifestyle evangelism, and its dependence on two factors: the Holy Spirit’s leading for effectiveness and sustenance, and a supportive Body Life (namely cell groups) to motivate and sustain members in their outreach lifestyle. To this end, the EM prays and hopes for more ECs to arise from cell groups and other small groups in our community, and for members to embrace their strong identity in Christ.
Inspired by what God had done through the 2019 Celebration of Hope (COH), the EM continued the strategic framework P.E.G. (Pray. Engage. Gather) and this has seen it launching the Evangelism Talk Series (ETS; from October 2020 to March 2021) to inspire and equip SJSMers, curating the MyStoryHisStory testimony archive to allow for sharing and conversation starters, and leading the first Zoom-based Centralised Cell Prayer Gathering of 2020, with the theme of “Show us the Father!” to keep our focus on the One and Only who is able to open eyes to the truth.
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May more prayers rise God-ward for a proactive personal evangelism by whatever means — online and/or in-person — to happen among us.
The dream is to spark a self-sustaining understanding of the necessity of sharing the gospel in the hearts of our members, such that being an SJSMer becomes synonymous with having an evangelistic mindset and lifestyle. The Gospel is the greatest news we can ever tell. Therefore, we must evangelise urgently and purposefully.
We can bring people to have a divine encounter with God the natural way* or /and the supernatural way. Whichever way, when we move in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, He will bring about healing and salvation of souls to Christ. And until such time as this vision comes to fruition, the EM will bear the torch, invite cells groups to catch the flame, and work together towards fulfilling SJSM’s mission of being a witnessing community of praying and caring worshippers who base their lives on Scripture and move in the power of the Holy Spirit to reach a world in need of Christ.
How strongly will SJSM flex her evangelism muscle? Well, church leaders, pastoral and zonal leaders, church and cell members and small/ministry groups, the answer is in our hands, as we learn the secret of yielding ourselves to the control of God’s Spirit that we might do God’s work in God’s way.
