7-Day Challenge "A simple strategy to share your faith"

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“A simple strategy to share your faith”

How can you share the Gospel with people who haven’t heard it? Or have heard but haven’t trusted in Christ? The Gospel gives people hope and promises eternal life for those who accept Christ as their Savior. It’s an urgent message, and you can share it!

Take this 7-day challenge to reach those around you and point the way to everlasting life. You can do it alone, with a Christian friend or get your church group involved. Don’t wait. Start today!

Be intentional. List five or more people who don’t know Christ. This could be friends, family, neighbors or co-workers.

Pray. Pray for each person on your list. Pray that God will soften their hearts and open their minds to hear His voice, and that He will open doors for you to share what He’s done in your life.

Set a good example. How do you treat the people on your list? What does your Facebook status or choice of music say about you? Set a godly example by your kind spirit, gentle words and selfless actions.

Get personal. Invite them to visit PeaceWithGod.net, an interactive website that shares the Gospel in four simple steps. Email them, share it on Facebook or Twitter, or in person. Say something like, “Hey, check out this site. I found it encouraging and thought you might like it. Let me know what you think!” If the person you’re reaching struggles with a specific need or question, sharing one of these pages might be helpful.

Start a conversation. Follow up with the people on your list. Ask what they thought of the website. Refer them to KnowJesus.net if they want a personal mentor to answer questions about God or basics of Christianity, or to GoingFarther.net if they want to explore this on their own or grow spiritually.

Spread the word. Get your friends, family and church involved in the 7-day challenge to reach as many people as possible.

Don’t stop! Continue setting a godly example, praying and sharing the website with others. You can’t give people a heart for Christ, but you do have a responsibility to share God’s Word. God is with you and can use you in ways you never thought possible. Also consider volunteering with Search for Jesus to tell others about Christ online! We provide the training. Visit SearchforJesus.net.

“Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.” - 1 Corinthians 15:58

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Search For Jesus Evangelism - Sharing the Gospel Online 24/7 (@SearchforJesus)

As you read this, many hurting people are searching for answers right now online and are searching for hope that would satisfy their longing souls. People are ready—and waiting—to surrender their lives to Jesus Christ. Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) has an online ministry called Search For Jesus - which is an online Evangelism outreach to Share the Gospel 24/7.

http://godrev.jesus.net/joy-in-heaven/

Many people commit their lives to Christ through PeaceWithGod.net an online website dedicated to share the Gospel by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA). BGEA is working to connect new believers who commit their lives to Jesus through their online outreach to a local, Biblically sound church that has a heart for Christ and passion for discipleship.

The Goal for BGEA is not just to see the unsaved come to Christ but to encourage new believers to get involved in church to help them grow and become spiritually mature Christians. Through BGEA’s Internet evangelism outreach, you can help them as they make that decision and continue to grow in their faith. Without even leaving the comfort of your own home you can help make a real difference in the lives of so many.

BGEA is looking for e-counselors (people who chat online @ http://PeaceWithGod.net), discipleship coaches (people who guide new believers through a 5-week course online @ http://KnowJesus.net) and churches to join in this innovative ministry and help others have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Please pray about joining the BGEA Internet Evangelism team and visit: http://SearchForJesus.net to learn more today! Volunteers need only have a heart for sharing the Gospel, an Internet connection, and to be available a few hours a week. You will also undergo a complete Search for Jesus training program so your well prepared and ready.

Search for Jesus: http://youtu.be/a3qDmdTogQU

Share With Others

Please visit the site today – watch the videos, hear the testimonies, and experience the Gospel presentation based on John 3:16. Then share PeaceWithGod.net with your friends and others who need to hear the Good News. E-mail the link, click the Facebook "like" button, and post a video or link on your Facebook page.

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This is where thousands of people each week make a decision for Christ.

Your Soul Longs for God by Billy Graham

Your Soul Longs for God by Billy Graham

Many people have knowledge, but they don’t have wisdom. The Bible says, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 9:10). A great British historian said some years ago, “Man, by his knowledge, has brought himself to total annihilation.”

Knowledge without God and without wisdom is very dangerous. That’s one of the problems in the world today. We have a lot of knowledge; we have a lot of learning, but the Bible says you can be “always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (2 Timothy 3:7). We lack the wisdom to use our knowledge.

Your soul is that part of you that has judgment. It makes decisions—moral decisions—what is good and what is bad. Your soul also involves your will. Your will chooses or rejects things that are brought before it. Your soul is that part of you that has emotion, like love and fear. It has memory—the mental capacity for storing up knowledge of ideas and events. There is something down inside us that is beyond science to know. The Bible calls it soul or spirit.

We tend to put all of our emphasis on the body with its pleasures and its physical appetites. But the soul also has appetites. The soul longs for God. Down deep inside every person’s heart is a cry for something, but he doesn’t quite know what it is. Man is a worshiping creature. He instinctively knows that there is something out there somewhere, and he longs to know that something or someone. Your soul longs for vital contact with God. Your soul is valuable because it is eternal—it is forever.

Do you look to God for your longings? 

Prayer

Lord, thank You for filling the longings of our souls when we come to You in repentance and faith. Help us to find holy contentment and wisdom as we seek to know You more and more. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

Scripture quotations are taken by permission from The Holy Bible, New King James Version, copyright ©1979, 1980, 1982 Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, Nashville, Tenn. From Billy Graham: "Decision" magazine, July-August 2012, ©1982 BGEA. Source: http://links.mkt1529.com/servlet/MailView?ms=Mzk0MTQ4ODMS1&r=Mjc4NTA4MDQ3NTMS1&j=MTQ5MDk3MTc2S0&mt=1&rt=0

Saved to Serve by Billy Graham

Saved to Serve by Billy Graham

“Jesus said to them, ‘Follow Me, and I will make you become fishers of men’” (Mark 1:17). We are saved to serve; we are redeemed to reproduce spiritually; we are fished out of the miry clay so that we in turn may become fishers of men.

During our Crusades, thousands of young people have surrendered their lives to Christ for full-time Christian service. Young people want adventure and excitement; but they want more—they want something to believe in, a cause to give themselves to, a flag to follow. The only cause that is big enough is the cause of Jesus Christ; and its flag is the blood-stained body that was lifted on the cross of Calvary for the redemption of the world.

This invitation to discipleship is the most thrilling ever to come to mankind. Just imagine being a working partner with God in the redemption of the world! Jesus challenged, “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor” (John 12:26).

Christian discipleship gives us the privilege of being associated with Christ intimately. And the faithful discharging of the glorious responsibilities of true discipleship invokes the approval and favor of God Himself.

Are you actively involved in discipleship? 

Prayer

Lord, help us to follow Christ daily and to make knowing Him and making Him known the guiding cause of our lives. Teach us how to be Your faithful servants. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

Scripture quotations are taken by permission from The Holy Bible, New King James Version, copyright ©1979, 1980, 1982 Thomas Nelson, Inc.,Publishers, Nashville, Tenn. From Billy Graham: "Decision" magazine, May 2012, ©1959 BGEA.

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Learn From the Master Teacher by Billy Graham

Learn From the Master Teacher by Billy Graham

Would you like to "lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven"? (Matthew 6:20). Then, Christian, take off your coat of pious indifference, roll up your sleeves of Christian fervor and go to work in the teeming vineyard of souls. Opportunities lie all around you. Your neighbors are without Christ, your children are unsaved, your colleagues are waiting to see Jesus in you. I challenge you in Christ's name to become an effective, efficient fisher of men.

"I am interested," you say, "but how may I be a disciple of Christ?" The answer must come from God's Word itself. "If anyone desires to come after me," said Jesus, "let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me" (Luke 9:23). Before you can follow Jesus in discipleship, the selfish, sinful "self" must be crucified, so that Christ is pre-eminent in your heart and life.

Jesus also said, "If you abide in My word, then are you are My disciples indeed" (John 8:31). Disciple literally means "a learner, a student, a follower." Salvation may be instantaneous, but discipleship must be learned from the master teacher, Christ Himself. We must know the Word before we can teach the Word. So, the second requirement of discipleship is that we continue in the Word of God.

What are you willing to learn?

Prayer

Lord, thank You that someone took the time to tell us about Christ. Please teach us how to follow You and then guide us to those who need someone to show them the way of discipleship. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

Scripture quotations are taken by permission from The Holy Bible, New King James Version, copyright ©1979, 1980, 1982 Thomas Nelson, Inc.,Publishers, Nashville, Tenn. From Billy Graham: "Decision" magazine, May 2012, ©1959 BGEA.

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Jesus: The True Light by Billy Graham

Jesus: The True Light by Billy Graham

Why is Christianity so different from every other religion in the world? The answer focuses on the Person of Jesus Christ: Jesus, the Son of God the Father and the second Person of the Trinity.

Today many voices are making other claims. Atheists say there is no God. Polytheism may allow that Jesus is one of many gods. And some say that Jesus is the first of the divine creation, not eternally God. But we boldly echo the ringing conviction of the Apostle Peter: "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God" (Matthew 16:16).

The title Christ means "anointed one." It is the term, in the Greek language, for the ancient Hebrew word Messiah—the anointed one whom God would send to save His people. Peter and the first believers of the early Christian Church recognized Jesus as the Messiah promised in the Old Testament. Their period of world history was one of discouragement and despair. The promised Messiah shone as a beacon in the darkness, and His light has never dimmed: "In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. … That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world" (John 1:4, 9).

Who is Jesus to you? 

Prayer

Lord, thank You for sending Jesus into the darkness of the world so that we could have eternal life. Help us to reflect the Light into the world around us today. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

Scripture quotations are taken by permission from The Holy Bible, New King James Version, copyright ©1979, 1980, 1982 Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, Nashville, Tenn. From Billy Graham: "Decision" magazine, April 2012, taken by permission from "A Biblical Standard for Evangelists," by Billy Graham, ©1984 BGEA.

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Longing For Home by Billy Graham

Longing For Home by Billy Graham

During Christ's ministry on earth, He had no home. He once said, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head" (Matthew 8:20). Those who for Christ's sake had given up houses and lands and loved ones knew little of home life or home joys. It was as if Jesus had said to them: "We have no lasting home here on earth, but my Father's house is a home where we will be together for all eternity."

Amid all the changes that sooner or later will come to break up the earthly home, we have the promise of a home where Christ's followers will remain forever. The Bible teaches, "Here have we no continuing city, but we seek the one to come" (Hebrews 13:14). The Bible says, concerning Abraham, that "he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God" (Hebrews 11:10).

Paul said in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, "Thus we shall always be with the Lord." Our permanent home is not here on earth. Our permanent home is Heaven. Sometimes when things do not go right down here, we get homesick for Heaven. Many times in the midst of the sin, suffering and sorrow of this life, there is a tug at our soul. That is homesickness coupled with anticipation. You may be lying on a hospital bed today, you may be suffering from terrible disease or financial loss or bereavement, and there is a tug in your heart. You are longing for home. You are longing for Heaven.

	What do you have to look forward to?

Prayer

Lord, even now, we feel a yearning in our hearts for home—and nothing on earth can quench it. Thank You for giving us the promise of an eternal home in Heaven after we've walked through life with Jesus. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

Scripture quotations are taken by permission from The Holy Bible, New King James Version, copyright ©1979, 1980, 1982 Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, Nashville, Tenn. From Billy Graham: "Decision" magazine, March 2012, ©1996 BGEA.

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The Cross Is Life by Billy Graham

The Cross Is Life by Billy Graham

A gospel that appeals to our reason or righteousness will always be popular, for people like to feel that we can circumvent the cross of Christ. The cross left no footing for man to stand upon. It put the responsibility of man's redemption upon Christ. Had not man failed? And was he not and is he not continuing to fail? Hasn't history proved that "there is none righteous, no, not one"? (Romans 3:10).

The cross comes with its mighty power to bring low as well as to exalt, for it exalts none but those whom first it humbles. It calls the pious worshiper to come down out of his ivory tower and to take his place at the cross with the outcast and the vile. It tells the earnest seeker and the anxious inquirer that by their own efforts they are made not one whit better until they put their hope fully in Him who was slain. It tells the sincere evangelical, whose mind is a treasury of orthodox doctrines, that he must stand beside the drunkard and harlot and say, "God be merciful to me a sinner!" (Luke 18:13).

I realize that these are hard sayings, but the Bible says that the cross is an offense to the righteousness of man. The cross says that "all have sinned" (Romans 3:23). It decrees that every person, marred by sin, must be remade. It is more than pardon, for forgiveness cancels the old wrong but leaves a man where he is morally. It is even more than justification, for justification makes a man judicially worthy in the sight of God. The cross means life.

	Do you have life through the cross?

Prayer

Lord, forgive us for thinking that we can create our own righteousness. Help us to learn what it means to put our hope fully in Christ and to have life to the fullest. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

Scripture quotations are taken by permission from The Holy Bible, New King James Version, copyright ©1979, 1980, 1982 Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, Nashville, Tenn. From Billy Graham: "Decision" magazine, February 2012, ©1956 BGEA.

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Made for a Purpose by Billy Graham

Made for a Purpose by Billy Graham

The Bible says that God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness ... So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him" (Genesis 1:26-27). And, notice, God did not make man haphazardly, but with an infinite plan and purpose. He made him in His own image and likeness: a creature with which He could commune and fellowship. You were made for God's fellowship, and to fulfill any other purpose is to fail to fulfill your destiny.

That heart of yours, which, despite its evil and waywardness, in its serious moments cries out for fellowship with the infinite God. That mind of yours, so fraught with evil imaginations, sensual images and earthly aspirations, longs for communion with the divine Potter. That body of yours, tired of its labors and wanderings, aching with loneliness, hungers for companionship with the One for whom you were created.

Thousands of people admit that they are unhappy. Economic security, recreation, pleasure and a good community to live in have not brought about the peace and happiness they expected. The reason is that man was created in the image of God and can find no complete rest, happiness, joy and peace until he comes back to God.

Do you understand why God made you? 

Prayer

Lord, thank You that we were not put on earth randomly and left to fend for ourselves. Help us to understand what it means to have fellowship with You, so that we may understand our true purpose in life. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Scripture quotation is taken by permission from The Holy Bible, New King James Version, copyright ©1979, 1980, 1982 Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, Nashville, Tenn. From Billy Graham: "Decision" magazine, February 2012, ©1956 BGEA.

You Are Free by Billy Graham

You Are Free by Billy Graham

In today's courts of justice, a lawbreaker is brought before the judge and sentenced. When we come before the Judge of the universe with our guilt, we find ourselves sentenced to death. Every one of us is under the condemnation of God because we are guilty. We have broken His law.

Now, suppose you are sitting in the death house awaiting the carrying out of your sentence. You deserve it, and you know you deserve it. What you did, you did with your eyes open, and you are facing execution. But suppose someone comes and volunteers to take your place. And suppose the prison guard opens the door of your cell and escorts you into the warden's office and there you are told, "You are free." You find it hard to believe. "What do you mean, I am free?" And you are told, "Someone else took your punishment. Someone took your judgment. Someone has already died in your place, and you are free."

I am glad to tell you that is just what has happened. On the cross of Calvary, God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself. Jesus died on the cross in my place and in your place, and now we can be free. Now we can know we are going to Heaven, not on the basis of our good works, our morality, our decency or the money that we give. We are going to Heaven only on the merit of the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ, who died in our place on the cross and took the sentence of the law upon Himself, so that "by His stripes we are healed" (Isaiah 53:5).

Prayer

Lord, help us to see that there is nothing we can do to free ourselves from sin and its judgment. Thank You that Jesus took our sin on Himself so that we could come to You in righteousness. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Scripture quotation is taken by permission from The Holy Bible, New King James Version, copyright ©1979, 1980, 1982 Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, Nashville, Tenn. From Billy Graham: "Decision" magazine, January 2012, ©1971 BGEA.

The Cost of Christmas by Billy Graham

The Cost of Christmas by Billy Graham

Christmas emphasizes the glorious truth that salvation is provided apart from us, that into this sin-cursed world came One whose supreme mission is to save sinners. We cannot save ourselves because we cannot deliver ourselves from the guilt, the power and the consequences of sin. Those in rebellion against God have no terms of peace to offer that are acceptable to God. Only God Himself can make peace, and this He has done through the atoning sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ. Through the merits of Christ's life and death, we are offered full and free forgiveness.

Christmas tells us what it cost God to save the world: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son" (John 3:16). Christ is God's great Christmas Gift to the world: "Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift" (2 Corinthians 9:15). Christ does for us what no other has been able to do: He removes our guilt and reconciles us to God. He raises us from the death of sin to the life of righteousness. He reconciles us to life and to our fellow man. He implants within us new hopes, new aims, new enthusiasms. He regenerates our affections, our desires and our energies, and strengthens our wills.

Prayer

Lord, as we look to the beginning of the next year, help us to turn to You to save us from the consequences of our own sin. Teach us how to walk with You and live the new life we have as Christ lives in us and renews our hearts. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

Scripture quotations are taken by permission from The Holy Bible, New King James Version, copyright ©1979, 1980, 1982 Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, Nashville, Tenn. From Billy Graham: "Decision" magazine, December 2011, ©1991 BGEA.

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