R.C. Sproul

I think every Christian is responsible to be able to bear witness to their own faith and to give testimony of their own faith.

but to be a practicing evangelist?

No."

I said, what every Christian is responsible for in the church is that the task of evangelism be accomplished.

I used to lead over 200 lay people in a church who were engaged in an evangelism team.

We went out every week and did evangelism, and I trained them in this sort of thing.

And it was remarkable some of the side benefits of that experience.

First of all, some of the people came to me after we had been doing this for several months.

One woman I can remember particularly who was obviously far and away the most effective evangelist we had in this group of 200 or so.

And she was crying in joy.

And she said to me, R.C., I've been in the church for 20-some years.

I've sung in the choir.

She said, I worked in the church office, I taught Sunday school, and I tried all these different things to help in the ministry of the church, and I felt like I failed miserably at each one of them.

And now, thanks to this program, I have found my gift.

And she loved doing evangelism.

Other people were engaged in it for six months, and I remember talking to another person who came up to me and said, R.C., I live in mortal fear every time we go out and do evangelism.

Every time we talk to people, I feel tongue-tied.

I feel completely inept and inadequate.

I've been trying this for six months, and it's just not working.

But I've noticed that when we go out on these evangelism calls that I've found all kinds of people who are unemployed.