You can lead an evangelistic Bible study! I have mentioned on What is Truth? before the series of evangelistic Bible studies that the FaithSaves.net website has made available.  The seven studies themselves can be viewed here, where one can also see an example by video of how one can present them to the lost.  The files can also be downloaded and customized with updated church addresses here.  They are in use in various churches in the United States and in foreign countries.

If you have never led an evangelistic Bible study before, I have had the privilege of teaching an extensive series on how to lead one which you can watch.  We have gone through study #1, on the nature of Scripture, study #2, on the one true Triune God, study #3, on God’s law and man’s sin, and study #4, on the Person of the Mediator, Jesus Christ, and His death, burial, and resurrection.  Study #5, covering repentance and faith, has been started.  So now you can not only see a video example of how to lead an evangelistic Bible study, have extensive written notes that can help you to do it, but also have extensive video teaching on how to do it.

Thus, if you are not trying to preach the gospel to the lost and to follow the pattern in Acts of regularly giving more and more truth to interested people until they either repent and believe or are hardened and do not want the truth anymore, what is your excuse?  Is it one that will stand up at the judgment seat of the holy Christ who died for the sins of the world?  Can Christ die for every person, but you do nothing or nearly nothing to preach the gospel to them, both through clearly explaining the entire gospel in single interactions and through evangelistic explanation in repeated, regular sessions–an evangelistic Bible study?

Of course, there are many ways to explain to the lost the glorious riches of God’s grace.  If your church has a different evangelistic Bible study that they like better, that still presents the full-orbed truth, that is just fine.  But you need to be doing something.  Christ did not save you so that you could be in the pew-warming ministry, but so that you can be in the ministry of making disciples from every kindred, tongue, and nation (Matthew 28:18-20).

–TDR