Love Is The Greatest Form Of Evangelism

Wednesday, 30 October 2024

“Until then, there are three things that remain: faith, hope, and love—yet love surpasses them all. So above all else, let love be the beautiful prize for which you run.” – ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭13‬:‭13‬ ‭TPT‬‬

“For here is the way GOD loved the world—he gave his only, unique Son as a gift.” – ‭‭John‬ ‭3‬:‭16‬a TPT‬‬.

The greatest grace you can give someone is Love. Jesus didn’t teach Love and then became Love, He became Love and then taught Love to the disciples. Everything that He thought, said, and did stemmed from a place of Love. The Kingdom of GOD is based on and functions on Love. We were created by Love, we were created in Love and we were created for Love. What blows my mind about this is that, the Love of GOD for us is so gracious, so undeserving yet so fulfilling. GOD didn’t say, “Let us make Christians in our image, in our likeness…” instead He said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness…” [Genesis 1:26a]. This is proof enough to show that the Love of GOD is for everyone, more especially the unsaved, also remembering the fact that none of us were born saved. We too were shown Love, and if it weren’t for the Love that we were once shown, we would never have decided to receive Christ. Love is contagious and it is the greatest form of evangelism. When we spread Love we spread Jesus.

““So I give you now a new commandment: Love each other just as much as I have loved you. For when you demonstrate the same love I have for you by loving one another, everyone will know that you’re my true followers.”” – ‭‭John‬ ‭13‬:‭34‬-‭35‬ ‭TPT‬. This message wasn’t for the multitudes to hear, this is a mandate that Jesus left with the disciples (church), it was not for the multitudes to hear from Jesus, but the disciples were to show it to them (multitudes), through loving one another in deed. In as much as the church has been tasked with demonstrating love to one another for the world to know and see what love is, we (disciples, church) are to extend the same love and grace to the world.

But you are not of the world [you no longer belong to it], but I have chosen you out of the world.” – ‭‭John‬ ‭15‬:‭19‬b ‭AMP‬‬. The Love of GOD is without boundaries, borders, limits, and condition. We didn’t have to do anything to earn His love, yet we love Him because of what He has done for us. We by no means can love another outside of Him, it is He who does the work in and through us, our capacity to love (genuinely, sincerely) can only be found in Him.

“The Love of GOD is for everyone, more especially the unsaved, also remembering the fact that none of us were born saved. We too were shown Love, and if it weren’t for the Love that we were once shown, we would never have decided to receive Christ. Love is contagious and it is the greatest form of evangelism. When we spread Love we spread Jesus.”