It may be time for our convention leaders and pastors to take a second look at lifestyle evangelism. I use this tool of evangelism and have found that it works.
I have been a bivocational minister, so I have had opportunities to witness both in the workplace and in my churches. It has been wonderful to see people come to know the Lord through my preaching and singing, but, at work, I had to use other approaches. It is simply not appropriate to witness to someone directly while they have a job to tend to. But you can talk to them on breaks and give them tracts.
Years ago, I was working at a plant and got partnered with a friend who did not go to church, nor did he know the Lord. But the more we talked, the more he got interested. So I gave him a tract, and when he read the verse that says, “He made him who knew no sin to become sin for us,” he said, “Oh, no!” I knew that he was under conviction. I did all that I could to help him, but eventually he left the plant, as did I, and I almost forgot him. Years later, I was working at another job, and one day my mother told me my friend had called to tell me he had recently become a Christian and joined a church. He had kept that tract and nailed it to a wall in a room. He is still very active in his church.
Lifestyle evangelism does work.
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