An evangelist is a herald of the gospel.
Do the work of an evangelist.
Philip is called the evangelist. He preached Christ in Samaria and to the Ethiopian. Paul lists evangelists with apostles, prophets, and shepherds and teachers, gifts of the risen Christ for building the body. He tells Timothy to do the work of an evangelist and fulfill his ministry. The church is all sent with the news. The evangelist is the one whose work is the announcing. The office does not replace the apostle or the elder. It carries the gospel to those who have not heard it.
- Philip had been one of the seven. The table-servant became the herald.
- Timothy is a pastor’s delegate and is still told to evangelize.
- The word is the gospel. An evangelist without the gospel is only a traveler.
Philip the evangelist.
He gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists.
Do the work of an evangelist.
- Evangelist means a gospel herald.
- Philip is named as one.
- Christ gave evangelists to the church.
- Timothy is told to do the work.
- The work is announcing Christ, not a separate religion.
- Elders shepherd. Evangelists herald. Some men do both.
- The Word – Herald of good news.
- The Man – Philip.
- The Gift – Given by the ascended Christ.
- The Charge – Do the work.
- The News – The gospel.
- The Limit – Not a rival apostle.
- Acts 21:8 – “We entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven.”
- Ephesians 4:11-12 – “He gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints.”
- 2 Timothy 4:5 – “Do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.”
- Acts 8:5 – “Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ.”
- Acts 8:35 – “Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus.”
- Acts 8:40 – “Philip… preached the gospel to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.”
- Romans 10:14-15 – “How are they to hear without someone preaching? … How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”
- 2 Timothy 4:2 – “Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season.”
- Matthew 28:19-20 – “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations… teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.”
- 1 Corinthians 1:17 – “Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel.”
Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven.
He gave the evangelists to equip the saints.
Do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
An evangelist announces Christ. The news is the gospel. The work is not finished when a church has elders.
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