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This is our final week in this series on Evangelism, and I hope over these last few weeks we’ve learned a little more about what it actually means to be an evangelist—what it means to tell good news in a world that desperately needs some.

But the truth remains: it can feel a little different when the invitation becomes specific.

It is one thing to talk about Jesus. It is another thing to look someone in the eye and say, “Come with me to my United Methodist Church.”

And yet, that kind of invitation might be more powerful than we realize.

In John 9, we meet a man whose life has been changed by Jesus. He does not have every theological answer. He cannot explain every detail. He simply knows what happened to him.

“I was blind, and now I see.”

That is evangelism.

Not proving that we know more. Not winning an argument. Not having every answer.

It is caring enough about another person to tell the truth about what Jesus has done in us—and then inviting them to come and see for themselves.

Because no one will care about what you know until they know how much you care.

And if we learn to live that kind of evangelism, I really do believe it can change the world.

Passage: John 9:7-17, 25 CEB