Evangelism - Sharing Jesus Christ of Nazareth with the lost

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Lately I've found a real desire building up with me to share the gospel and outreach to people. The message of Jesus Christ I want to make the utmost important thing that I always try to tell people. The challenge is what is the best way to represent the gospel? the first thing is I HAVE TO BE LIVING AND BREATHING IT in order to be able to share it effectively (also need to be led by the Holy Spirit as well). The gospel isn't something that I learn as knowledge and just think about, its something I apply to my life. In 1 John it says:

1Jn 2:5 But he who keeps (treasures) His Word [who bears in mind His precepts, who observes His message in its entirety], truly in him has the love of and for God been perfected (completed, reached maturity). By this we may perceive (know, recognize, and be sure) that we are in Him:
1Jn 2:6 Whoever says he abides in Him ought [as a personal debt] to walk and conduct himself in the same way in which He walked and conducted Himself.

Obeying the word of God is also part of loving God, we love Him so we obey His commands (and they are not burdensome). I'm sure this is something that I'll be learning for the rest of my life. Today was my first CDS in "evangelism 1" but because of ushering I had to leave early and didn't really get to hear what they said about the main things about sharing the gospel. But lucky I got phillip as a room mate and he left the CDS from the time he did it on his desk :D (they didn't have enough copies for everyone). ok there are four main points here:

1. God loves you and offers a wonderful plan for your life:

(Joh 3:16) For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.
(Joh 3:17) For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him.

Jer 29:11 For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.
Jer 29:12 Then you will call upon Me, and you will come and pray to Me, and I will hear and heed you.
Jer 29:13 Then you will seek Me, inquire for, and require Me [as a vital necessity] and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. [Deut. 4:29-30.]
Jer 29:14 I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will release you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and all the places to which I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I caused you to be carried away captive.

I exchanged John 10:10 with Jerimiah because to me it speaks more, often in the old testament you hear about a nation, the bible talks to the whole nation. But if you stand back and think of the nation as a single person you can begin to understand how what has been said to the nation of Israel relate's to us. In Jeramiah 29 the people of Israel had been brought into captivity at Babylon, and like Israel(which was captive in Babylon) each on of us are captive to our sins. Here God clearly states that when we seek Him he will release us from captivity (our sins), its in Christ that this freedom is found, He is the one that free's us from our sins.

2. Man is sinful and sparated from God. Therefore, he cannot know and experience God's love and plan for his life.

Rom 3:23 Since all have sinned and are falling short of the honor and glory which God bestows and receives.

Rom 6:23 For the wages which sin pays is death, but the [bountiful] free gift of God is eternal life through (in union with) Jesus Christ our Lord.

and one to add for my own self:
Pro 20:9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? [I Kings 8:46; II Chron. 6:36; Job 9:30; 14:4; Ps. 51:5; I John 1:8.]

1Jn 1:8 If we say we have no sin [refusing to admit that we are sinners], we delude and lead ourselves astray, and the Truth [which the Gospel presents] is not in us [does not dwell in our hearts].

When we are born into this world we are all sinners, wheather we are a sinner right at birth before we even commit a sin or from when we first do one, I cannot say. But the fact is all have sinned and fallen short, we cannot be with God because of this sin. God wants to have a personaly relationship with us but sin stops that. And now onto the BEST PART, how God Himself saves us from our sin by becoming the sacrifice for our sins.

Eph 2:8 For it is by free grace (God's unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God;
Eph 2:9 Not because of works [not the fulfillment of the Law's demands], lest any man should boast. [It is not the result of what anyone can possibly do, so no one can pride himself in it or take glory to himself.]

3. Jesus Christ is God's only provision for man's sin. Through His death on the cross you can know and experience God's love and plan for your life.

(The whole point of the gospel is your not saved by your own doing, while we are still sinners Christ died for us, salvation is never based upon how good we are but by what Jesus did for us on the cross, we are saved by trusting and putting our faith in Jesus, repenting and following Jesus as our Lord and Saviour)
Rom 5:8 But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us.

(These verses are proof that Jesus Christ rose from the dead, our faith is based on fact and truth and it should be presented boldy as such)
1Co 15:3 For I passed on to you first of all what I also had received, that Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for our sins in accordance with [what] the Scriptures [foretold], [Isa. 53:5-12.]
1Co 15:4 That He was buried, that He arose on the third day as the Scriptures foretold, [Ps. 16:9, 10.]
1Co 15:5 And [also] that He appeared to Cephas (Peter), then to the Twelve.
1Co 15:6 Then later He showed Himself to more than five hundred brethren at one time, the majority of whom are still alive, but some have fallen asleep [in death].

(there is only one way to God, not many ways, like some people like to think, Jesus is the ONLY way to God)
Joh 14:6 Jesus said to him, I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by (through) Me.

4. We must individually recieve Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord; then we can know and experience God's love and plan for our lives.

This last part is the most important part, once a person has recieved Jesus as Saviour and Lord they are part of His kingdom, they have been saved from their sins. Jesus now intercede's to God on behalf of them(Hebrews 7:25-26), and since Jesus is God who can condemn what God himself has saved, this is the beauty and security of our salvation(Romans 8:33).

Joh 1:12 But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the authority (power, privilege, right) to become the children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name--[Isa. 56:5.]

But the question still remains, How do I recieve Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord? If you have not recieved Jesus as your Saviour and Lord, get on your knee's and pray to God out from your heart:
"Dear Lord Jesus, I know I'm a sinner, but I believe you died for my sins and rose from the dead. Please forgive me and make me new. I turn from my sins and surrender my life to you. Come into my heart and be my Lord and Savior. Thank you, Jesus for saving me."