If so then do you have street preachers (people who share their faith with strangers) Can someone please send me links to videos because I unable to find anything. I would very much like to hear how you give your gospel. Thank you 
In the 21st century the internet makes for excellent “street preaching”.
youtube.com/watch?v=XyGkBsgpAbs
100% Biblical “Salvation for All, and All shall be Saved” sermon, for any who will hear, and see. Which is apparently; 6,563 people and counting, with 133 agreeing and liking it.
This is one example of how we give THE Gospel.
For myself, I try my best to give it through facebook (which in my current phase of my walk with God, is my pulpit), and give it through various means. I have been pondering a video podcast, but I am not yet there. But I don’t just preach salvation messages from a EU perspective, my ministry is more towards drawing people to live the Life that was given them.
The Great Commission is what we fight to do, despite persecution from our brothers.
Thank you and if anyone else have then feel free.
Speaking for myself, there is no point to living other than the great commission. BUT I don’t see any necessary Scriptural link between believing in the great commission and street preaching, so I don’t believe in street preaching. 
I’ve never seen a place and situation where street preaching actually communicates the truth and love of Jesus. Probably such a place/situation exists somewhere–I’ve just never seen it. In my experience, it certainly never contributes to “making disciples of all nations”–which is what the great commission is all about.
I haven’t been able to find reliable (and free) webcam software or I would’ve made vids already. But I do frequently share universal reconciliation in the “Infinity and Beyond” FB group.
Yes it is.
I wasn’t referring to you, per’se when I made that statement. At any rate, your implications to my being “lost” by excluding me from your company of the “found” are nerve grating. Try to avoid it from now on. I am a Christian, I confess Christ. If we are not brothers, then I can only say - I know 100% that I am a Christian.
Jesus is Lord.
I am talking about this kind of witnessing. One on one. I want to see you gospel in practice.
I’ll have to leave the answer to that question for those of us who live in the cities, and have experience in this ministry.
Oxy,
Do you think those universalists here who are trusting in Christ alone for their salvation and who strive to live lives that honor him are your brothers and sisters in Christ?
Tom
Short answer… yes. But I’m not sure what the purpose of your question is. Do I share The Good News, The Gospel in a turn or burn method… No. Paul told us that we are ambassadors of reconcilialtion, with feet that should be shod with the gospel of peace, seeking to lead prodical sons and daugthers back to their heavenly Father. That our heavenly Father has done all to redeem us from the power of sin and the fear of death. That He will never stop looking for and bring back ever last sheep that is lost, so that He will finally be ALL in ALL. That’s what LOVE does.
I guess that the answer might be different if I was a Hyper-calvinist. 
Or even a Hyper-arminian. 
Or am I now not a “true” Christian because of my methods of sharing the REALLY Good News in your estimations?
I think a better question would be … what is the Gospel?
Grace and peace
PS I believe we do not have very many examples of “Gospel Preaching” yet. But I’m sure that there must be some of us that have the gift of evangelism and a heart that seeks those that Father has been wooing in this age. How can they hear if no one is there to preach?
And as a last thought, in all the recorded words of the Apostle Paul (from Acts to Philemon)can you find even once his use of the word “hell”?
Hi Oxy,
Thanks for your question! I wonder why you chose to put it in the “negative” section? Is this an attempt at an argument against EU? Seems like “Evangelism” would have been a better location.
Anyway, I have to say if what you believe in is a “great commission” then what we believe in had better be called “The Greater Commission.”
You see, we believe it is our assigned service to participate in the ministry of Christ to reconcile every man to God. “And we proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man that we may present every man complete in Christ.”
Jesus says, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.”
“All nations” would seem to me to include everyone… or did He really mean to say: “a few out of each nation”? He doesn’t say “make disciples of some from every nation.”
Interesting video, btw. Do you think the guy succeeded in making disciples of those young men?
Sonia
Oxymoron, I’ve worked as a substitute teacher for many years. Just recently, for the first time and since I’ve come to embrace EU, I was called into the office about a parent complaining that I was talking about Jesus in the classroom. It really caught me off guard because I’d never intended to break the rules and have such respect for maintaining separation of church and state. I certainly hadn’t been trying to purposefully indoctrinate the students, I assured my boss while, at the same time, explaining that I am a believer in Jesus. She replied, “Well, the parent was really insistent that you were talking about Jesus.” Again, I reiterated that I had such respect for the school and would be more careful.
I’d racked my brain for a few weeks to try and figure out what I’d said that bothered a parent so much he/she felt they had to call and complain. It’d occured to me some weeks later, when I was talking to another Spanish class, that what I’d shared, the same thing I was sharing then, was how I’d learned Spanish. I’d wanted to encourage the students that they can learn too so I was telling them about my experience going to Mexico with my church and then being asked back for the summer. Immediately, I stopped myself and asked the class if they understood my point…my experience with language, not religion. They all said they did.
For a while I thought that parent that complained shouldn’t have been so upset. But, as I thought more about it, that’s probably how we make disciples - not preaching at them formulas on street corners with impersonal videos, but sharing our lives - demonstrating the love that we have in our hearts for others. I was just living, being, what I am - a follower of Jesus. Perhaps it’s harder than I thought to keep what is inside from coming out? Maybe the parent should be concerned? Who knows, maybe the student went home expressing interest in God, doing something similar?
I’d never been able to speak of God with such ease before EU and, now, people can hardly get me to shut up! Good evangelism seems more about the way we live our life, should come naturally from the overflow that is within us, and that goes with us wherever we go, many more places than the street corner. I figure as long as there is life in me, then I’ll have something to share and it will come out. I could relate to Lefein talking about sharing on fb. The trick is not to share more, but to hold back, be respectful, and considerate.
I wonder, anyway, what approach at evangelism is best? I’m sure there is no one way to share our faith. Our biggest impact in making disciples is probably going to be with people we have regular contact with. I’d once had a friend really interested in my faith and she asked me lots of questions. I wish I’d known thenwhat I know now, because I would have approached the situation very differently. I think we can tend to feel like we need to give all the answers, be quick to try to explain too much. At least, I feel like that’s what went wrong for me. I wish, looking back, that I’d taken it slower, shared less - not more, and just lived my life of faith in front of her. I think I overwhelmed her with too much info. she could not process. I was also not as prepared to answer some of the questions she had, that were some of the same issues I was wrestling with. I wish I’d felt the freedom to just say, “That’s a really good question. I’m wondering about that too right now.” I should have fought the urge to push on her what I thought she needed and listened more to the Spirit about how I could love her. I think that approach would’ve kept the door open more for future questions. I’m tempted to write her back and tell her I have better answers to some of her questions now, but I realize there is no sense in beating someone over the head with info. that they are not requesting. Sometimes street evangelism can feel like this, though I’m sure even it has it’s benefits.
This reminds me, short term missions of a few weeks to a mos. have always seemed to me, as I experienced watching teams come and go, to benefit the people on the team more than the people they thought they were trying to evangelize. Often, I’d hear the missionaries complain of all the energy it took away from their time with the people to host them. It was always, imho, the long term missionaries that seemed to have the biggest impact. I’m sure short term missions also have their place, esp. if there is a physical need provided. My hunch is that when we do so we walk away the ones most blessed. Was I evangelizing the people in Mexico or were they evangelizing me? I feel like I learned so much from them! They were poor, but so rich in Spirit.
Lefein, want to add you on fb! 
I think street preaching can be fine way to evangelize and make disciples for Christ!–even though the versions I’ve personally been around have been pretty poor. I used to hang around fringes of a (rather sad, ignorant and highly self-contradictive but admirably determined!) street preacher at university, whenever he would show up, and help evangelize the mockers on the outskirts of the crowd.
That kind of evangelism has never yet been my charism, but not all of us are feet or hands or eyes or stomachs etc. I go other places where I am called. (I know at least two people in the upper ranks of the forum leadership are personally involved in evangelism in the Middle East, though. I hope they’ll add some comments to the thread!)
So for example, I have spent about $50,000 of my own money (earned slowly at work over the years) in beginning an evangelical outreach through the novels I write. It’s a slow beginning, but I’m not made out of money, and it has certainly given me an opportunity to witness to people who otherwise might ignore or discount or reject conventional evangelism. (A little more than $1200 of that money, to give one example, I spent on a press release that went out across the whole world, reaching out to people who had been disturbed by the murders a pop-atheist boy had done before being shot by a Christian security guard at a church he was assaulting, explaining why the only hope I have for that boy, even though he died an atheist and a murderous one at that, was in Christ.)
My apologetic defenses of trinitarian theism and historical Christianity garnered me an invitation to write as an main author for the Christian Cadre journal, where over the past several years I have added to the thousands of pages of material I had already written in correspondence with very hard-core sceptics (an exhausting amount of time and mental energy). Mostly I focus on disparate points here and there, as apologists are typically called to do, but I also take advantage of our readership of tens of thousands all over the world to write evangelical sermons for the site on holidays. This year I culminated a multi-year publication project by what amounts to an 80 page appeal (posted up piecemeal on subsequent days during and preceding Easter week) for our readers to repent of their sins and turn to Christ as our only Lord and Savior Who has willingly and lovingly sacrificed Himself to pay for our sins–with warnings that, whoever we may be, so long as we refuse to repent of our sins and seek the righteousness that solely and ultimately belongs to God, we shall be increasingly and ever-increasingly punished! (As usual I mostly put that warning in terms of myself as a sinner, as I find it is better to preach against myself first and foremost for purposes of example. But I do make the warning as well as the promise of hope in Christ for other people.)
I expect (and hope and plan!) to be able to do increasingly more and more evangelical work, if I am ever in a position where I can set aside my responsibility to care for my parents in helping with the family business (and in some other ways). Until then, I do what I can within the limitations God has placed me.
Oxy, great question - sharing ones faith and presenting the Gospel.
The church I grew up in called this “witnessing” and there were always these classes, promotions, incentives, and campaigns being offered to encourage people to go out door-to-door witnessing.
A few people I think really enjoyed these witnessing campaigns. For most I think it was on par with going to the dentist.
It always struck me as odd that the folks in the church needed “training” to be a witness. A witness is someone who tells firsthand what they’ve experienced or seen. So, in this church situation people had to be “compelled” to witness whereas in a couple of Bible stories Jesus actually “compelled” people not to tell anyone about what had just happened to them. Of course these people were so excited about their encounter with Christ that they couldn’t keep their mouths shut.
Now I suppose the reticence of most to participate in these “witnessing” programs was the version of the gospel that they were “trained” to present. It basically went this way:
That basically was the “good news” we were trained to present to complete strangers answering their doorbell.
Most of us realized this wasn’t so much “good news” but a way of scaring people into saying a certain prayer. It’s not fun to knock on a stranger’s front door and then try to scare them into something.
For me personally when the light came on about EU I couldn’t keep my mouth shut. I remember one night sitting down with my teenage kids and some of their friends going through Talbott’s short paper on the 3 propositions and at the end these kids were so excited about the “good news” they literally started naming off people they couldn’t wait to tell.
Hey, maybe I should start teaching “witnessing” classes!
I’ll send a PM
As one who was a staunch ETC defender, and hence had this background - I can’t help but find this part;
“if you were to die tonight…”
Just a little bit creepy-threaty…
Thanks oxymoron for challenging us UR-ers in this area. I think you are implying that if one believes in UR, one won’t see the importance of sharing one’s faith. I think 2 Cor 5 teaches how mission and UR fit together.
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All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
Even when I believed in ECT I wasn’t much of an evangelist. But I personally know I need to be challenged in this area.
One challenge for us UR-ers is that it most organizations involved in mission would not allow us to participate unless we hide our beliefs.
Yes, yet another reason we must strive to convince the mainstream Evangelicals that EU is legitimate.