BEING PART OF THE PLAN

Does God have a plan for accomplishing His work of evangelism or has He left it to chance as to whether the job will get done or not? Everything that we observe of our God would tell us that He does indeed have a plan.

Our God is a God of order and detail. A casual observation of His work in creation verifies that. We marvel at the birth of a new born baby and the amazing intricacy in every detail of the tiny new person. Yet within that wee child is everything needed (other than normal daily nourishment) for it to become a full grown adult person. We look up into the sky on a clear night and marvel at the stars that seem to fill the atmosphere and we are reminded that it was God that spoke it all into existence. Did He have a plan? Scientists tell us that the earth is exactly the right distance from the sun to sustain life. Any closer and we would burn up. Any farther away and we would freeze. Did God just throw it all together and hope for the best? Hardly, He had a plan.

Does God have a plan for accomplishing the evangelization of mankind? If He does; how can we know what that plan is?

Just as we can observe His work in creation and determine He had a plan we can observe the life, ministry and teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ and see his plan for how he determined to evangelize the world. To quote Pastor Travis Jones, “His plan to make lost people extinct.”

We learn much about the Lord’s plan for evangelism from examining just three passages of Scripture. In Matthew 28:18-20 we learn about the mission of the Lord’s plan. His mission was to make and train disciples. In Acts 1:8 the Lord Jesus reveals the commission of the plan. The Holy Spirit was given to empower us for the work of evangelism. And in 2 Timothy 2:1-2 we see the necessity of submission to the plan God gave us.

Paul’s ministry would have gone for naught if men like Timothy, Titus, Luke, Epaphroditus and others did not catch his vision. If Paul taught these men and all the others everything that he knew but they did not carry on that mission, Christianity would have ceased to exist in the second century. They submitted to the plan and the world was impacted in a single generation.

What about us? Do we want to be part of the Lord’s plan? Will we join in the Lord’s mission with His commission and serve in submission to the plan? If we believe the Bible is the Word of God and have a true Holy Spirit burden for souls we will. I am confidently convinced if we are part of His plan we will experience His blessing and see precious souls saved.