10)Why 90% of Christians Never Lead Anyoneto the Lord

10)WHY 90% OF CHRISTIANS NEVER LEAD ANYONETO THE LORD

a)LACK OF TEACHING IN THE CHURCH BY

EVANGELISTS TO STIR PEOPLE TO WITNESS

(Ephesians 4:11-12)

b) FEAR OF MAN (Luke 12:4)

c) MORE WORRIED ABOUT MAN’S APPROVAL,

THAN GOD’S APPROVAL (Matthew 10:32-33)

d) CAUGHT UP WITH THINGS OF THE WORLD

Status, Looks, Image (James 4:4)

Compromise values: TV, videos, films, magazines

Worldly Possessions (Matt. 16:26)

Ambition (Work, Sport)

NO SENSE OF ETERNAL PRIORITIES

Jesus said, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures onearth, where moth and rust destroy and where thievesbreak in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasuresin heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys andwhere thieves do not break in and steal. For whereyour treasure is, there your heart will be also.” (Matthew 6:19-21)

e) HAVE LOST CONTACT / RELEVANCE WITH

UNSAVED WORLD

Christianize

No unchurched friends

All social activities are in the church

Us Verses Them Mentality

The Apostle Paul said, “For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more. And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might win those who are under the law: to those who are without law, as without law, …that I might win those who are without law; to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.” (1 Cor. 9:19-22)

f) DISCOURAGED BY PAST FAILURES(Philippians 3:12-14)

g) A FAILURE TO COMPREHEND THAT HELL WILL BE A REALITY FOR MANY OF OUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS

h) LACK OF LOVE FOR HUMANITY (THE LOST)

i) A RELUCTANCE TO COUNT THE COST OF

DISCIPLESHIP

The Apostle Paul said, “Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as a fool. I am more: in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often. From the Jews five times Ireceived forty stripes minus one. Three times I wasbeaten with rods, once I was stoned; three times I wasshipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the

deep; in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold andnakedness …. If I must boast, I will boast in the thingswhich concern my infirmity.” (2 Corinthians 11:23-30)