The Evangelist:

1. The Evangelist: What He Deserves From You

2. VI. What He Deserves From You • Your moral support • Encourage him as often as possible. • Stand behind him when he preaches the truth. • Your respect

3. Romans 10:15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!"

4. VI. What He Deserves From You • Your moral support • Encourage him as often as possible. • Stand behind him when he preaches the truth. • Your respect • Many think their preacher has it easy. • Many think their preacher is lazy.

5. VI. What He Deserves From You • Your assistance (“Let the preacher preach!”) • Aug. 20, 1957 Life – “Why Ministers Are Breaking Down” - “His role as conceived by the average church member cannot be filled!” • Let all Christians be workers; don’t saddle the preacher with his work and yours, too!

6. 1 Corinthians 12:15-16 If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body?

7. 1 Corinthians 12:17-20 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. And if they were all one member, where would the body be? But now indeed there are many members, yet one body.

8. Ephesians 4:11-13 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

9. Ephesians 4:14-15 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head--Christ--

10. Ephesians 4:16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

11. Acts 8:1-2 Now Saul was consenting to his death. At that time a great persecution arose against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.

12. Acts 8:3-4 As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering every house, and dragging off men and women, committing them to prison. Therefore those who were scattered went everywhere preaching the word. Every Christian Should Evangelize

13. VI. What He Deserves From You • Your financial support

14. 1 Corinthians 9:7-8 Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock? Do I say these things as a mere man? Or does not the law say the same also?

15. VI. What He Deserves From You • Your financial support • The taught are to share with him who teaches.

16. Galatians 6:6 Let him who is taught the word share in all good things with him who teaches.

17. VI. What He Deserves From You • Your financial support • The taught are to communicate with him who teaches. • Not only individually, but also collectively.

18. 2 Corinthians 11:8 I robbed other churches, taking wages from them to minister to you.

19. Philippians 4:14-16 Nevertheless you have done well that you shared in my distress. Now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me concerning giving and receiving but you only. For even in Thessalonica you sent aid once and again for my necessities.

20. VI. What He Deserves From You • Your financial support • The taught are to communicate with him who teaches. • Not only individually, but also collectively • Evangelist should be willing to support self, if necessary.

21. Acts 18:1-2 After these things Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth. And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla (because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome); and he came to them.

22. Acts 18:3-4 So, because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked; for by occupation they were tentmakers. And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.

23. Luke 10:7 “The laborer is worthy of his wages.” There is no greater work on earth.