1 877-431-4276The Call of the Evangelist | Global Evangelist Alliance Mentorship Call
The Global Evangelist Alliance hosts a monthly mentorship call for evangelists. During a recent call, Evangelist Rubens Cunha introduced Evangelist Daniel King, who has led over 1 million people to Christ through his worldwide evangelistic ministry. Daniel discussed the biblical role and calling of the evangelist, highlighting the examples of the evangelist Philip in the book of Acts. Key points include:
- Evangelists are called to preach the gospel to large crowds and see miracles, but also to equip and train others in evangelism.
- Evangelists must remain humble and focused on glorifying God, not themselves.
- Teenagers and young people can be effectively trained and deployed as evangelists.
- Evangelists should develop a strong support base through consistent communication and vision-casting to partners and supporters.
This insightful mentorship call provides valuable guidance for those called to the evangelistic ministry.
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Transcript:
Evangelism Podcast Host (00:00:00):
The Global Evangelist Alliance has a monthly mentorship call for evangelists, and recently I was invited to teach on the mentorship call. It consists of about 20 minutes of teaching on what is an evangelist, and then we opened it up for a question and answer session. I thought that you would be interested in hearing this mentorship call. If you want to sign up for future mentorship calls, you can do so at the Global Evangelist Alliance.com. So I encourage you to go there today and become a member of the GEA, the Global Evangelist Alliance and start participating in the mentorship in how to become a better evangelist. Let’s listen to this month’s mentorship call.
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Welcome to the Evangelism Podcast with Dr. Daniel King, where Daniel interviews full-time evangelists, pastors, missionaries and normal everyday Christians to discover how they share their faith, their powerful testimonies and amazing stories that will inspire you to reach people with the good news. And now here’s your host, missionary and evangelist Daniel King.
Eleanor Curran (00:01:36):
So I just want to welcome you all as everybody’s jumping on, make sure that our room is getting filled up with all these amazing people from around the world. And I’m going to introduce our host today, which is Evangelist Rubens Cunha. He is a very powerful evangelist that the Lord has called to reach the nations and it’s a privilege to work with you, sir, handing the microphone over to you.
Rubens Cunha (00:02:04):
Thank you so much Eleanor Curran. It’s a great joy to be here. Hello everyone. I hope you feel as blessed as I do to participate in these calls. I am calling you guys now from the mission field
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In the city of in northeast Brazil battlefield for the gospel. So I was talking to Daniel King earlier. It is great that we are doing this as real evangelists. We are doing the work of evangelism as we elaborate these calls, as we do the mentorship projects. And I want to ask all of you to kindly mute your microphones so that no environment noise where you are disrupts the teaching and the mentorship call. Again, I am very glad that you are here. I want to welcome you and let you know that you are in for a treat today. Today we have with us Evangelist Daniel King, Dr. Daniel King, an evangelist that is being used by God in many, many nations. Daniel King is a missionary evangelist who has traveled to over 70 nations in his quest for souls. His goal is to lead 1 million people to Jesus every year through massive crusades distribution of literature and also by training leaders.
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Daniel was called to the ministry when he was five years old and begun to preach when he was six. That’s a great blessing. Dr. Daniel’s parents became missionaries to Mexico when he was 10, and then you spent the next 13 years ministering in Mexico alongside his parents. When he was 14, he started the children’s ministry that gave him the opportunity to minister in some of America’s largest churches while he was still a teenager. Daniel is also the host of the Evangelism podcast. I hope Daniel will tell us a little bit about this podcast today because it’s great. He has already interviewed over 250 evangelists. I have had the honor to be featured in one of these podcasts. He has interviewed evangelists, pastors, missionaries, church growth experts. Daniel has also offered over 20 books and appeared on numerous TV and radio programs. He has planted six church overseas and is the father and president of King Ministries International. He’s married to Jessica, have two children, Caleb and Grace and Katie Grace, and I’m honored to call Daniel King a friend. We live in the same city though we usually meet in different parts of the world. Last time I believe was in Congo in Africa before that South Korea and before that Colombia. How are you doing, Dr. Daniel?
Evangelist Daniel King (00:05:20):
It is so wonderful to be with you today. Yes, Rubens is a good friend. We meet all over the world and we are excited about telling people about Jesus.
Rubens Cunha (00:05:32):
Amen. Amen. We are going to have now a time of teaching. Dr. Daniel King is going to share with us about the call of the evangelist. I want you to pay attention and to make notes. And remember, you get to participate in these mentorship calls. Make sure you send your questions through the Zoom chat. And after Dr. Daniel King finishes his teaching, we are going to be selecting as many questions as possible, as many questions as time allows. And then we are going to be talking about those questions here live. So Dr. Daniel King, it’s an honor and privilege to have you today and you can go ahead with what the Lord has put in your heart for today.
Evangelist Daniel King (00:06:19):
Thank you Brother Rubens. It is such a wonderful privilege to be able to spend time with each one of you today. Thank you for making time in your busy schedule to be mentored in evangelism. Today I am going to be talking about the question, what is an evangelist? And this is a question that I have been exploring my entire life. When I was five years old, my father pastored a small church in Cloudcroft, New Mexico. And one Sunday he invited a prophetess to come and minister at the church. And God woke her up the night before and said, tomorrow there will be someone wearing a blue shirt. You are to prophesy that this person wearing a blue shirt is called to be an evangelist. And so she came to church. None of the adults in the adult service were wearing a blue shirt. And so she invited the kids workers up hoping one of them would have a blue shirt on and they didn’t have a blue shirt on, but there is this long line of kids.
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And at the end of the line was a cute little five-year old boy wearing a blue shirt. And that cute little boy was me and she prophesied over me that day that I was called to be an evangelist. Of course, at the age of five, you don’t really know what an evangelist is. It seems like a big word, but I didn’t waste any time. I jumped right into the calling that God had in my life and I preached my first sermon at the age of six. And my mother and father still have the cassette tape from that first sermon. And one of the things I say is, if you are saved, stay saved. If you’re not saved, you need to get saved. So even at the age of six, I sounded like an evangelist. And then as I was growing up, my favorite books were by TL Osborne, the great missionary evangelist from here in Tulsa, Oklahoma, oral Roberts, Reinhard Bonky, Billy Graham.
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I’d read the books and look at the pictures of all of the people that they minister to. And so God planted that in my heart. And when I was 15 years old, I was reading a success book. It said, if you want to be successful, you need to write down your goals. And one of the goals they’d say would be good for young people is to try to become a millionaire by the age of 30. But when I was 10 years old, my parents had become missionaries in the country of Mexico. And I realized that because of my upbringing as a missionary in Mexico, that money was not what was important to me. What was important was souls. And so at the age of 15, I wrote down, hi Daniel King, want to lead 1 million people to Jesus Before I turn 30 years of age, instead of becoming a millionaire, I wanted to lead a million heirs into the kingdom of God, become a soul millionaire.
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And so God started opening up doors in different nations. I did my first gospel crusade in the nation of Honduras while I was still a student at Oral Roberts University and studying New Testament there. And then the next year I did two crusades and the next year I did four crusades. And by the time I was 30 years of age, I had led face-to-face over a million people to Jesus. And I was praying and say, God, what comes next? And I felt like God say, go for a million souls every single year. And so in the natural that’s impossible, but with God, all things are possible. And so I’m excited about evangelism and this entire story of my life has been searching for this question, what is an evangelist? Because I want to be the very best evangelist I kept possibly can be to fulfill the calling that God has put on my life.
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And so eventually I ended up doing my doctorate of ministry at Oral Roberts University and studying the question about what is evangelism and is mass evangelism effective? And for my doctoral project, I actually did a project researching one of Ruben’s Una’s crusades down in the nation of Brazil. And so he’s there right now. I want everyone to offer up a prayer for the ministry that he is doing this very week in Brazil. And so I’ve been studying this question, what is an evangelist? And so I want to go to God’s word to answer the question. The word evangelist is mentioned three times throughout scripture. And so the first time it’s mentioned is in Ephesians chapter four, it says it was Jesus who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers to prepare God’s people for works of service.
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And so the job of an evangelist is to prepare the body of Christ to do the work of an evangelist. And so the evangelist, of course, preaches the gospel. We want to fulfill the great commission. Jesus said, Matthew 28, go and make disciples of all nations. Mark 16, go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Luke 24, forgiveness of sins will we preach in his name to all nations. John 20, as the Father sent me, I am sending you Acts one, eight, you’ll receive power from the Holy Spirit to be a witness to the uttermost ends of the earth. So Matthew, mark, Luke, John, and Acts. We have this great commission. And the great commission is given not just to evangelists but to every believer. Every single one of us are called to share our faith. But the evangelist is especially gifted by God to do evangelists but then to equip God’s people to do evangelism.
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And so as an evangelist, you are equipped to inspire the body of Christ and to motivate the body of Christ to go out and to share their faith with others. And so our job as evangelist is to activate the entire body of Christ to go and to do evangelism. And so then the second time that we find the word evangelist is in second Timothy chapter four, verse five. Paul the apostle is a writing to his protege Timothy. And at the time Timothy is serving as a pastor in the church of Ephesus. It was a very significant church. Mary, the mother of Jesus actually moved to Ephesus. And so you can imagine this young man preaching with Mary sitting there on the front row. It was a significant place that he was ministering at. But this is what Paul says to Timothy. He says, but you keep your head in all situations and do her hardship, do the work of an evangelist.
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And so even though Timothy is serving as a pastor, Paul tells him to do the work of an evangelist. And so every single member of the body of Christ can do the work of an evangelist and to share our faith. And then the Bible mentions the word evangelist for a third time over in Acts chapter 21. There is a man named Philip who is living in Caea. And Paul the apostle stops there and he meets Philip in. Philip has four virgin daughters who all prophesy. And this passage specifically calls him Philip the evangelist. And so of all the characters in the Bibles, we got lots of prophets, we got apostles, we got disciples. But the only person in the entire New Testament who is specifically called an evangelist is this man whose name is Philip. And so I believe that God gave us Philip as a model for evangelists to follow.
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So we got to ask this question, who was Philip the evangelist? His story starts all the way back in Acts chapter six. In Acts chapter six. There was a great increase in the number of the disciples and they were feeding the disciples every day and the apostles were getting worn out because they were serving food to all of the different groups of people that were newly saved. And so there was one group of widows that started to complain that they didn’t have enough food and the apostles didn’t have enough time to spend time in God’s word. And so they decided to name seven deacons who would serve as servants to help wait on the tables for all of the people that they were trying to feed. And so in Acts chapter six, it says they proposed the proposal, please the whole group. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit and also Philip.
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And so the first time we see Philip, he is being named as one of the seven deacons who are going to serve food to the widows. And so in the beginning of his ministry, he wasn’t an evangelist, he was simply someone who had a heart to serve. And I really believe that that is where every evangelistic ministry should begin. We should begin with the heart of a servant. Jesus said, I did not come to be served but to serve. Jesus said, the greatest in the kingdom is the servant of all. And so Philip the evangelist started his ministry out simply by being willing to help out. And then a time of persecution comes and Philip the evangelist, he scatters along with all the other people who were fleeing persecution. And we come to Acts chapter eight and Acts chapter eight, I believe is the greatest chapter in the entire Bible for the evangelist to read in order to understand the calling of the evangelist.
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And so in Acts chapter eight verse four, it says, those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went, Philip went down to a city in Samaria and he proclaimed the Christ there. When the crowds heard Philip and saw the miraculous signs he did, they all paid close attention to what he said. With shrieks, evil spirits came out of many and many paralytics and cripples were healed. So there was great joy in the city. And so we can learn a lot about the calling of an evangelist from what Philip did here in the city in Samaria. If you’ll look at that passage in your Bible, you’ll notice that as Philip begins to preach, there are multitudes and there are miracles. And so those are two signs of the evangelists. Evangelists have the ability to pull multitudes together. Just last week I was ministering at an organization up in Moline, Illinois, and it’s this organization that reaches out to children in their community.
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And so they’ve been serving the Lord there since 1936. And I went in and they invited me to help them with their fall outreach. I said, let’s go to the local schools, let’s pass out flyers. And we packed out the entire building and many of the staff members that had been there for 20 years said, this is the most kids that we’ve ever seen packed into our building. And there’s something about the evangelistic gift that just pulls crowds of people together. And so we packed out the building, that’s part of the anointing of the evangelist is to bring multitudes together. And then it says that there were miracles. This is another sign of the evangelist. The evangelist is especially anointed by God with faith to believe God for miracles and miracles are the dinner bell that call people to the banqueting table of heaven. And so when people see a miracle that happens on the platform, then it opens their heart to Jesus.
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I’ve preached the gospel in many different nations, Hindu nations, Muslim nations, Buddhist nations, and I’ve noticed that people, when they see the miracles that Jesus does for the people, it attracts them. They are drawn towards God. Jesus said, if I be lifted up, I will draw all men onto me. And so Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. He did miracles 2000 years ago. He can still do miracles today. And the evangelist is especially anointed by God to believe God for healing miracles. And then you’ll notice his message. It says that Philip preached Christ. Christ is the main message that the evangelist is supposed to preach. And so there are a lot of different traveling ministers in the body of Christ. Some traveling ministers talk about how to have a happy marriage, how to be successful in business, and sometimes they call themselves evangelists.
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But really I can very quickly identify who is called by God to be an evangelist because the evangelist will preach about Jesus Christ. And so a true evangelist, it doesn’t matter where he starts in scripture, he can preach on any subject at all, but just as quickly as possible, he will get to the good news about Jesus Christ. And so an evangelist, he or she will preach good news. The Bible says that all have sinned, all have fallen short of the glory of God. The price for sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, the son of God. He died on the cross to pay the price for our sins, but he didn’t stay dead. After three days, Jesus rose from the dead. And today Jesus is alive. And the Bible says that everyone who calls on the name of Jesus will be saved.
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Will you call on the name of Jesus today? This is your opportunity. If you want to call on Jesus, lift up your hand to heaven and let’s call on Jesus right now. The evangelist is going to take people straight to Jesus. And so Philip the evangelist preached Christ. There were multitudes, there were miracles. He cast out evil spirits. God gives us the evangelists, the ability to take authority over every evil spirit. And then it says that there was great joy in the city. And I have seen this hundreds of times in different cities across the world where you go and it could be a city that’s struggling economically. It could be a city that has religious persecution. It could be a city where one tribe is fighting against another tribe. I’ve seen it all. But when you begin to preach the gospel, we find that great joy fills the city as people come to Jesus.
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And so some of those things that we see are the signs of the evangelist. And so Luke tells us the story about Philip the evangelist. So it is a model for us to follow as an evangelist. The evangelist is called by God to preach to massive crowds of people. But what’s very interesting is that in the second part of the chapter, we see Philip begin to operate in a different manner. He’s having a very successful meeting there in Samaria. And then it says, an angel of the Lord said to Philip, go south to the road, the desert road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. You can imagine Philip complaining a little bit to God and saying, God, why do I have to go down to the desert road? No one is on the desert road. I don’t know if you’ve noticed God, but here in Samaria, we’ve been having some really good meetings.
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I’ve been getting some really good pictures for my newsletter here in Samaria. Why do I have to go down on the hot desert road to Samaria? But he is an evangelist who is obedient to the voice of God. And so he goes down there. And so it says he started out and on his way, he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasuries of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the book of Isaiah, the prophet. The spirit told Philip, go to that chariot and stay near it. Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet, do you understand what you’re reading? Philip asked, how can I? He said, unless someone explains it to me. So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
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So this man, this Ethiopian eunuch had come all the way from Ethiopia, a very long distance to Jerusalem, to worship Yahweh, the God of Israel. And when he got to the temple in Jerusalem, he discovered that in the law of Moses, that there were certain people that were forbidden to enter into the temple. And so we find that in Deuteronomy chapter 23 verse one, it says that no foreigners are allowed to go into the inner court of the temple. And it says, no eunuch, no one who has been maimed or who is imperfect is allowed to go in. And so you can imagine this Ethiopian eunuchs disappointment. He’s come from this long distance away. He wanted to worship Yahweh. The people of Ethiopia had knowledge of Yahweh going all the way back to the queen of Sheba who had come and met Solomon. And she had taken the news about Yahweh back to Ethiopia.
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So he came to worship and he discovers that the people who are foreigners and the people who are eunuchs are not allowed into the temple. So he’s very disappointed, but he spends a huge sum of money. The scroll of Isaiah would’ve cost one year’s wages. So he spends this huge sum of money to buy this book of Isaiah the prophet, but he doesn’t understand it. So God sends Philip the evangelist to the desert road in order to explain the scripture to him. And so Philip begins to minister one-on-one to the Ethiopian eunuch. And so in Acts chapter eight, we see Philip ministering to multitudes and we also see Philip ministering one-on-one to this Ethiopian. And so as an evangelist, sometimes you’ll preach to big crowds and then sometimes God will put you on an airplane sitting next to someone for eight hours and you’ll have the opportunity to share the gospel with that person that you’re sitting next to.
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And so if you’re an evangelist, you should be ready to preach the gospel to the multitudes, to big crowds of people. But then you should ask the Holy Spirit to lead you to those individuals, one-on-one to minister to people whose hearts are ready to come to Jesus. The Ethiopian eunuch, he reads Isaiah chapter 53, which is the beautiful passage about what Jesus accomplished on the cross about how Jesus became a lamb who was slaughtered for the sins of the whole world. And I don’t think he’s ended there. I think they kept reading and they came to Isaiah chapter 56 verses three through seven. And in Isaiah 56, there’s a beautiful prophecy that says that the day will come where foreigners will be allowed into the temple of God and where even the eunuchs will no longer be cut off from worshiping Yahweh. And so the Ethiopian euch begins to ask, he says, what’s the difference between what happened in the law of Moses where eunuchs and foreigners are forbidden to enter the temple?
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And now in Isaiah 56, this beautiful prophecy where there will come a time where God’s house will be called a house of prayer for all nations. And so it says that Philip beginning with that very passage of scripture, told him the good news about Jesus. And Philip says, the difference is that Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God came to earth, he died on the cross to pay the price for our sins. And now no one is excluded. Everyone is included. There is a place for everyone to come to Jesus. Isaiah the prophet made the prophecy that there is a day coming where everyone will included even the people who come from a long distance. And so the Ethiopian Munich is super excited about this good news. He says, stop the chariot. He says, is anything preventing me from being baptized? And Philip says, no.
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He jumps right out of the chariot, he baptizes him. And then immediately the spirit catches Philip away and he begins ministering in other places. And so one of the questions that an evangelist often gets is, what do you do about follow-up? Well, what did Philip do about follow-up for this Ethiopian eunuch? He’s actually caught away by the spirit, but the Ethiopian union, he goes back to Ethiopia. He tells everyone about Jesus. And to this day, there are Christians in Ethiopia who trace their spiritual heritage back to this encounter that Philip the evangelist had on the desert road. And so this tells me that if you can reach the one person for Jesus, you potentially could impact an entire nation. And I’ve preached many times in Ethiopia, and it’s so beautiful to see the people of Ethiopia stretch out their hands towards Jesus. They’re ready and willing to come to Jesus.
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And it’s because of the seeds that Philip the evangelist preached. Philip the evangelist, he becomes a model for us to imitate. We should be ready to preach to multitudes and we should be ready to preach to the individual. But what’s very interesting is that in both of these cases, what does Philip preach about? He preaches about Jesus. And so that is the message of the evangelist. It’s all about Jesus. Jesus changed the city of Samaria. Jesus changed this Ethiopian eunuch and Jesus will change the lives of the people that you minister to as an evangelist. Hallelujah. Yeah. Let’s go into a time of questions. I hope that blessed you guys. Did you guys enjoy hearing that?
Rubens Cunha (00:28:42):
Great, great time. Thank you so much Dr. Daniel King. I was really blessed about the teaching here, you really brought of an evangelist. And I want to invite all of you now that heard this teaching, send your questions to Dr. Daniel King. Use the chat in the zoom call and send your questions. It’s a very unique opportunity for you to ask an evangelist who has so much experience, so much Bible knowledge, questions that are in your heart. And we already have some questions here, Daniel. And I want to start with a question from Timothy. Timothy, from France. He is asking, when do we know we’ve crossed the line from sharing humbly what the Lord has done through us to look how great of an evangelist I am and see crowds I have preached to someone said, don’t impress express. So what do you say about this?
Evangelist Daniel King (00:29:47):
Well, I think as an evangelist we need to stay very humble. And I’ve had the opportunity to be with some of the greatest evangelists of our generation. And I’ve found that the greatest evangelists often are very humble. And it’s because we realize we can’t do anything through our own power. I can’t heal anyone. It’s Jesus that heals someone. And so personally, I think we remain very humble, but we walk in great boldness in knowing who Jesus is and what Jesus can do. And so I think you should personally remain humble, but then be very bold in telling people this is what Jesus did and this is what Jesus can do for you. And so as an evangelist, we do walk that line. We like to take pictures of the big crowds of people to show people what God is doing. But one time TL Osborne, he told me, he says, you always take pictures.
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He says, when you take a picture of a miracle, a miracle happens twice, once in the life of the people who receive the miracle. And then again, the miracle happens when you show people what Jesus is doing. And so the reason that you show pictures of the crowds of people coming to Jesus and the pictures of the miracles is not to inflate your own ministry or your own sense of self-worth it is to show people look at this amazing thing that Jesus is doing in the world today. And I think when people see that they will get excited and they will want to be a part of it. But of course, we must always examine our own arts and make sure that we are preaching the gospel for the right motive, the right reason. And really it comes down to asking God to give you compassion for people.
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You’re not there for a photo op, you’re not there as an influencer. You are there because you care about people. You have the same compassion that Jesus felt when he saw the crowds of people who were harassed and helpless. And if we keep our hearts broken before God and realize that you are rescuing people from hell and taking them with you to heaven, that you are actually standing in the gap. And if you don’t preach the gospel, people could be in danger of spending eternity separated from God. And so I think that actually gives us great humbleness to know that God would choose to use us, and it also gives us great boldness to preach the good news with authority and power.
Rubens Cunha (00:32:34):
I love what you said Daniel. And the Bible verse comes to mind in Matthew chapter five, verse 16. In the Sermon of the Mount, Jesus said in the same way, let your light shine before others that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. So I think you made a great point there. So it’s so much about the motivation of our hearts and each evangelist must seek his or her own heart. If you are showing the pictures, if you are showing the miracle so that God gets the glory, that’s the right way of doing it. But if you are doing it for the sake of self-promotion, that’s a wrong motivation that does not honor God and he’s not going to bless it. How do you think, Daniel, we should watch our hearts. What are the questions we need to ask ourselves when dealing with this issue?
Evangelist Daniel King (00:33:34):
One of the things that God asked me one time, I had my camera out and I was trying to capture a good photo of a crusade I was doing. And God asked me, he says, Daniel, would you preach to these people if you didn’t have a camera with you, would you be willing to preach to them even if you weren’t able to take a picture or tell anyone what had happened? And immediately I said, yes, I want to preach to them. I want to rescue people from hell. It is rescuing people from hell that creates joy in heaven. It is rescuing people from hell that creates joy in my heart as an evangelist. I celebrate the victories, but it is all about leading people to Jesus, and that has to remain the motives of our hearts. And so from time to time, I just examine my own heart and say, God, help me to always have the right motive and to do things for the right reasons.
Rubens Cunha (00:34:41):
Amen. I love this. And I think just being very honest, here we are among evangelists. I think this needs to be a constant pursuit in our hearts as we preach to crowds. And sometimes we come to places where we receive the applause of people. We need to constantly give glory to God to make sure our hearts remain pure and the Holy Spirit can flow through us and bless the people. Now I have another question here from James. James is asking, can you train teenagers to become evangelists?
Evangelist Daniel King (00:35:14):
Absolutely. Teenagers are some of the best evangelists there are because teenagers are very influenced by their peer group. And so if you can get a couple of teenagers excited about sharing Jesus, they can start a revival, a revolution in a nation as people turn to Jesus. And so absolutely we need to look for teenagers who have a heart for God and begin to develop their ministry gifts. And so one of the things that I do in my crusades is I often take a younger evangelist with me. And sometimes I’ve had teenagers, sometimes early twenties, and I give them an opportunity to speak on the platform. The platform costs a lot of money for our ministry to be able to invite people, and sometimes a teenager would never have the capacity to be able to do a crusade of that size on his own, but I give them the platform to preach and they get excited about that.
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And that really is the launch to their evangelistic calling. And so if you are going out to do evangelism, take some teenagers with you, have them go out and help pass out flyers, give them opportunities to share their testimony, help them to develop in their ability to talk about Jesus. And teenagers will become some of the most effective evangelists that we can train. And also kids. Kids make great evangelists. And so when my two kids were young, 10 and eight years old, we took them on the mission field and they weren’t ready to preach yet, but they helped to pass out flyers and to invite people to come to the crusade. And now my daughter, Katie Grace, she’s 12 years old, she comes to me, she says, daddy, I feel like God’s calling me to be a missionary. I say, good, we will develop that in you and you will be a great missionary.
Rubens Cunha (00:37:16):
Amen. I love what you said. And sometimes we have the impression that Jesus’ disciples we’re like this old man, maybe because of some artwork. We have seen some paintings, they are depicted as older people, but the evidence is that they were all very young. Peter is the one that complains about paying the tax. And you all know the story. Jesus gave him a miraculous fishing. A coin was in the mouth of the fish for him to pay tax. And only people 20 and older had to pay the tax. And Peter’s the only one reported to have to pay the tax. So most likely the disciples were all under 20. Think about that. And also in that culture, typically a rabbi met his disciples or the disciples for the rabbi when they were very young. So even though we have this idea of the disciples as older men, it’s very much possible that they started as teenagers following Jesus, which is an amazing thing to think.
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I agree with Dr. Daniel King in our experience as well, the teenage evangelists are the ones who are the most on fire. They are bold, they are courageous. So I want to encourage you all to train and empower and give opportunity to teenagers and children to share the gospel. And as I’m saying that, I see some people like India, she’s just nodding with her head, looks like she has had some experience training teenagers as well. Now Pedro from Brazil, Daniel is asking how to develop discernment to take bigger steps of faith, developing the call of an evangelist.
Evangelist Daniel King (00:39:11):
When I first started out in doing evangelism, I started small. My parents were missionaries in Mexico. And so we went out on the dirt streets of Juarez, Mexico and we invited kids to come to the church. And so sometimes we would have 50 kids come. And then one day we decided we would have more kids if we dressed up as clowns. And so I dressed up as a clown and went out and waved at the kids and invited them to come to the church. And then suddenly we had a thousand kids show up at the church. And then God opened the door for me to go on a mission trip to another place. And it wasn’t a very big budget, but for a teenager it was a lot of money. So I asked God to provide. And so God provided that small budget God provided then that gave me faith to believe for a bigger budget.
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Then it gave me faith to believe God for a bigger budget. One of the principles of God’s kingdom is faithfulness. You stay faithful with what God gives you right now. And then as you’re faithful, God will give you greater and greater opportunities. And so just with whatever tools and gifts and budget that God has given you right now, look for opportunities to do evangelism. If it’s one-on-one, do one-on-one evangelism. If it’s teaching on evangelism at a local church, do that whatever opportunity God gives you, throw yourself a hundred percent into it. And then as you’re faithful with the opportunities that God gives you, God will begin to give you greater and greater and greater opportunities. And so that’s kind of how our faith develops too. Faith is a little bit like a muscle. You start small and you lift one set of weights and then after a while that set of weights is easy and you can build to a bigger set of weights.
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And so over time in your evangelistic ministry, God will increase your faith to believe God for bigger and better things. But you start small, you start where you are and you walk in the fullness of the calling that God has placed on your life and then God will build your faith and eventually you’ll be doing huge things for the kingdom of God. One time said that which is considered great, today will be normal tomorrow. And so of course Reinhard bonky one time he got to lead over a million people to Jesus in a single salvation prayer. And so I think that God is accelerating what’s happening in the world today and that what used to take 10 years to accomplish God now will allow the evangelist of the GA to accomplish in one year what used to take some people a lifetime ministering. Now we’re going to see evangelists accomplish that very quickly. And so Jesus is accelerating things. I think Jesus is coming back very soon. And so if you will stay faithful, even in doing the small things, God will test you. And then as you prove yourself faithful, God will very rapidly begin to give you greater and greater opportunities.
Rubens Cunha (00:42:36):
I love your answer, Daniel and I feel the same in our ministry this year we preached to crowds in excess of 80,000 people in Congo and we met in Congo. You also had an amazing large crusade there, but this has been 30 years in the making. Most of my ministry, in the beginning especially, we were preaching bus stops and in the streets praying for multiplication. And this has been a gradual process. Nowadays. We have our own PA system here in Brazil. We do several crusades a year, but it didn’t happen overnight. I really like what you said about taking steps by faith and then God will stretch you and then you take that step and then God brings increase. But I do have a question for you in the same subject here. How can you discern between a step of faith and a foolish action?
Evangelist Daniel King (00:43:37):
Well, first of all, I don’t think that the devil will ever tell you to go get someone saved. And so if you are taking an action of faith where it is going to lead to people getting saved, even if you make a mistake, I think God will back you up because he’s excited about people being saved. Even in our ministry, we continually take steps of faith for the crusades that we do. Some have big budgets, some have small budgets, but we almost never have the money in the bank. When we make the commitment to do a crusade, we put it on the calendar and then we start to trust God and we begin to look for the money. I begin to share the vision with our partners and friends and ask people to invest in what we are doing. And then God brings the provision and often it doesn’t come from the people that I think it should come from.
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Like I say, he’s a rich businessman. He could give me a lot and then he doesn’t give me anything, but then someone else will step up and be very generous and help us. And so even this year, I’ve seen God stretch our faith and we’ve seen God provide in tremendous ways. And I think that the vision of the evangelist is always bigger than the resources that the evangelist has. Every evangelist I’ve ever met, they always ask me, well, how do you raise money to do crusades or how do you raise money to be an evangelist? I am sure that’s true for many of us here on the phone call that you have bigger vision than what you have in your hands to be able to do right now. And I think that’s good because I think God gives us big vision so that we have to rely upon his provision.
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God wants us to stretch our faith. I do think that faithfulness is what leads to bigger faith though. So if you have nothing and you say, next week I’m going to do a massive crusade like a Reinhardt Bonky crusade, I would say that will probably not happen because it took Reinhard Bonky 40 years of faithfulness in ministry in Africa to build to the point where his ministry was able to do these massive crusades. And so sometimes people think I’ll start doing crusades and then immediately I’ll be able to do what took Reinhard Bonnke 40 years to accomplish. And that’s just not going to happen. But if you stretch your faith by 10% or 20% and say, I’m doing something at this level and I’m going to trust God for an additional 20% to increase 20% every year, I think over time you’ll be able to build to the level where you are doing amazing things for the kingdom of God. And so we prove our faithfulness by staying faithful. And then as we’re faithful, year by year, by year, God gives us greater capacity, greater relationships, greater resources to be able to do things for the kingdom of God.
Rubens Cunha (00:47:11):
Very, very insightful. So the heart here is continue expanding, but be patient. Many ministries took decades for them to accomplish the amazing things they are doing, and God will take you all in a process that is similar. Now I have a question here from Jean from France. What are the things you wish you knew earlier as an evangelist?
Evangelist Daniel King (00:47:40):
One of the things that I think is very important is building up your support base. When I first started in the ministry, I scraped together all of my money to put into crusades, and I did some really wonderful crusades where we spent lots of money on full color posters, plastered the entire city, and we had great crusades, great healings. And then when I got back home, I didn’t have enough money to be able to send out a nice newsletter. So I just took some of the pictures from the crusade and went and made a black and white photocopy and sent that picture out. And it was so grainy, you could barely see anything that had happened. And if I could change anything, I would go back and I would say, you need to work in the ministry. But then also you can work on your ministry and make sure that as you’re developing the great things that God’s doing, because the opportunities for ministry are endless, you’ll always have opportunities to do ministry. But along with the ministry, make sure that your support base is built along with the ministry that God has given you. And so that involves putting time into calling your friends and partners and telling them this is what God has done. It involves printing material to share the vision of what God is calling you to do and make it look good, make it look professional.
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You can make a nice website for your ministry and put time into doing that because if you get too far out with the ministry side, that’s where sometimes then you run out of funding. So you kind of develop your support base at the same time as you’re developing in the ministry opportunities that God gives you.
Rubens Cunha (00:49:50):
I really love what you said, Daniel. And we have a question here from Etel since you talked about that and you have a book on raising funds. Can you give the people here today some ideas on how they could raise funds to support their ministry, how to find sponsors, how to work on the ministry?
Evangelist Daniel King (00:50:14):
Fundraising is driven by vision. And so people don’t want to give to a need. They want to give to a vision and they want to be a part of what God is doing. And so it’s very important to continually be communicating what God is doing, not just for the motive of asking for money, but also to ask people to pray for you and to participate and to volunteer. And so I think it’s very important to tell the story of what God is doing as you’re doing it, and then to invite people to participate because people want to be a part of something that is successful, that something that God is doing. And so if whatever level of evangelism that you’re at, tell the stories of what God is doing. If you’re on a bus and you have the opportunity to share the gospel with someone on that bus, make a post on Facebook.
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Hey, today I got an opportunity to share the gospel on the bus. The guy rejected me, he spit at me and he said, I don’t want to have anything to do with your Jesus. That’s okay. You got rejected. It’s not a problem. Just tell the story and say, Hey, can you help me share Jesus with more people? I know that next time I’m going to find someone who’s not going to spit at me. You just tell the story and then people will be intrigued and they will want to be a part of it. And so I think that’s the biggest thing about fundraising, is communicating with people what God is doing and then asking them, inviting them to participate in the work of God. And so you can use Facebook to do that. You can do it by text message, you can do it by calling people. But the more you share the vision and invite people to participate, not everyone will participate, but God has people who he is specifically talking to that will step up and be a part of what God has called you to do.
Rubens Cunha (00:52:26):
Very, very insightful as you say that a Bible verse comes to mind. Matthew 1344 says, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. It’s interesting here that the men wanted the treasure, but he bought the field that came with the treasure. Sometimes we want the treasure, but we don’t want the dirt that comes with it. And the ministry, we want to preach the gospel, but sometimes we don’t want to deal with all the administrative work that comes with the ministry. You said something powerful. We have to work not just in the ministry but on the ministry. And it’s so important that as evangelists, we study the Bible, we preach the gospel, but we are also doing a good job like you preparing newsletters, communicating with partners, with prayer partners, letting people know about what we are doing.
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And many years ago, Dr. Daniel King helped me. Our ministry was just beginning. We are doing crusades. And I asked Dr. Daniel King at the time, he wasn’t a doctor yet, but it’s good to call him like that because he earned a degree. I study a lot for that. He said, what do you do when you are raising funds? And he said, well, when I’m not traveling and preaching, I’m home calling people, talking to people. And that was life changing. I really integrated that in my personal ministry. In the way I do it is I spend time with personal contacts. I call people, let them know what’s going on, what happened. I give them reports, I tell them what’s coming up. And then like you said, the people got called to participate in your ministry, be stirred in their hearts and they will start to give. I really believe that we need to pay attention to those things.
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I was running the numbers a few years ago and realized that I spent 3% of my time preaching and 97% of my time working on the ministry, studying, writing books, taking care of legal issues and documents and updating partners and raising funds and writing newsletters. So as we are building a team now, I am able to dedicate more time to the ministry, but still it’s a consideration. Everyone that is called to evangelism, especially to be full-time needs to have, there will be a lot of work involved around the preaching of the gospel. Would you like to add anything to that?
Evangelist Daniel King (00:55:15):
Well, Paul tells Timothy do the work of an evangelist, and part of the work of an evangelist is telling people what God is doing and inviting them to participate. And so it’s actually a lot of work. It’s not an easy job to be an evangelist, but we do the work of an evangelist. Also, you mentioned the book that I wrote about fundraising, and I’ve written several books about soul winning and I would like to give those books to the people who are participating on this call. And so if you will go to my website, king ministries.com, KING King ministries.com and enter in your email. There’s a box where you can put your email. I will send you as a free gift, the fundraising book that I wrote, how to Raise Money for your Ministry. And then I’ll send you a couple of my soul winning books that I’ve written on how to preach the gospel and some books that will inspire you to be a better soul winner. And so I just want to give those as a free gift to each of you. I’ll send them to you as an ebook where you can click on it and download and read, but especially that book on fundraising has some really great ideas that will help you to raise money for your ministry. So go to king ministries.com and sign up for my email list and I will send you the book on fundraising as my gift to you.
Rubens Cunha (00:56:41):
What a wonderful gift I want to recommend to everyone on this couch. Go there, get your books. I personally have been greatly blessed by Daniel’s books. He’s a great writer. Well, and we are coming to the end of this call. It’s very good, but we need to come to a conclusion here. But before we finish, Daniel, please tell people here how can they find you on social media, on the internet, your website, your podcast, which is a must for every one with a calling for evangelism.
Evangelist Daniel King (00:57:16):
Yeah. You can find my podcast by typing into any search engine, the Evangelism podcast, and wherever you listen to podcasts, it’ll pop up. And so now I’ve interviewed over 330 different evangelists and missionaries and pastors from around the world. And so I have talked to a lot of different people about how they’re doing evangelism in their local context. And so just this last week we did an episode talking about evangelism in francophone countries that the countries where they speak French. And we did another episode on evangelism to children, whatever context of evangelism that you’re in, just go through some of those episodes and you’ll find something that will be a big blessing to you. You can find the Evangelism podcast just by typing in the Evangelism podcast with Daniel King in any search engine. And then my website, king ministries.com. You can find links to my YouTube and a lot of videos of different crusades that we’ve done. I find those very encouraging for people to go and to watch, to see what God has done to build your faith for what God can do through your ministry. We also have a lot of training resources there. And again, if you want some of my books on evangelism, go to the website king ministries.com, give me your email address and I will send an email out to you later today so that you can download those books as my gift to you.
Rubens Cunha (00:58:56):
Wow. Wow. This was a wonderful call. Thank you so much, Dr. Daniel King, for taking time to pour into the lives of so many evangelists. I believe we were blessed here. I believe I’m speaking for everyone. We are really grateful that you took the time to be here with us today. And I want to remind everyone on this call that we will have our next mentorship call on December the third, December the third at the same time. And our guest will be a dear friend, Desmond Henry. Desmond Henry is involved in different networks of evangelism around the world. He is an academic, he’s a professor of missiology. He serves as the international director of the Global Network of Evangelists led by the Palau Ministries. Desmond Henry is also the chairman of an academic journal, the Conspectus from South Africa, and he serves as the catalyst for the Zen Proclamation Evangelism Network.
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So on December the third, we are in for a treat again with a great men of God who has tremendous insights in the area of global evangelism. So I count on you, make sure to invite other evangelists, friends, so many evangelists. I know I have prayed for something like that for many years. I wish when I was starting, we had a call like that, that we have direct access to evangelists who are making a difference in our generation. This is a privilege. Let’s not keep this mentorship a secret for ourselves. Please invite other evangelists to be on the call, tell your friends, invite them to join, and let’s build a strong community of people who love Jesus and love evangelism. So thank you all for being part of the call today. Thank you so much AOR Kern for mediating and organizing all the technology for the call. Thank thanks to all the interpreters that translated to other language today. And again, thank you, Dr. Daniel King. Please say your final considerations before we end the call.
Evangelist Daniel King (01:01:20):
Yeah, let’s finish with a word of prayer. And I especially want to pray for Reubens. He’s in Brazil right now. He is team is in the schools this morning preaching the gospel, telling people about Jesus, and they’re going to be doing a crusade this week. And so everyone just stretch out your hands towards Reubens and let’s pray for him. And I want to pray for each one of you. Dear heavenly Father, Lord, I lift up Reuben’s to you, Lord. I pray that this would be a mighty harvest in the nation of Brazil, that this week they would see God do great miracles. And Lord, I pray for each evangelist, every man, every woman who has joined us on the call. Lord, I thank you that they will walk in the fullness of their calling as evangelists. Lord, I pray for great opportunities, great resources, great relationships, great abundance. Lord, I pray that from the people on this call that millions of people will come into the kingdom of God through their efforts. Lord, I pray that your Holy Spirit would anoint them. I pray for a greater release of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, the gifts of healing, the gifts of faith. Lord, I pray that you would increase our gift of faith to believe you for greater things than we’ve ever seen before. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Evangelism Podcast Host (01:02:44):
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