Persuasion in Christianity
Christianity is acting, demonstrating attributes, and likeness of Christ Jesus through genuine love since Lord Jesus is love. Persuading Christians and other non-Christians is the act of generating and reinforcing crucial ways such as behaviours, motivations, intentions, attitudes, beliefs, and other fundamental elements that reveals practical Christianity in an individual (Gass & Seiter, 2015). Moreover, the action of persuading Christians into believing the word of God plays a significant role and basis in Christian life. Convictions are completed through effective and efficient skill in the inducement. Therefore, Christian leaders and instructors must employ proper forms while delivering their messages to achieve their desired goal of Christian conviction. This paper seeks to illustrate and demonstrate proper Christian persuasion.
Description of Christian Persuasion
Persuading a Christian simply means to convince an individual to believe in our Lord Jesus Christ through the application of His written word in the Bible. Believing can only be attained when someone is made to accept and trust the mighty works of Lord Jesus (Gass & Seiter, 2015). Furthermore, it is only through fearing and honouring God that persuasion is realized; hence, breeding believing and eventually faith in a Christian. Winning, sustaining, and demonstrating love to fellow believers is the best way to get into their hearts and finally convincing them into believing in Christianity (Gass & Seiter, 2015). Besides, persuasion is a continuous process of enabling people to believe and have dynamic faith in God. Believing is made simple when it is realized that is acting on the written word of our loving Heavenly Father. For this generation to believe and persuaded, they demand that they should see proves that indeed Jesus Christ of Nazareth exists and lives. Therefore, such proves can only be manifested through a true Christian believer through wonders and miracles with the help of the Holy Ghost.
Faith and Persuasion
The heart forms the basis of believing and faith is something of the heart, or simply the human spirit. Conviction should come from the inner heart as Christian are not able to believe and act out faith without absolute trust and conviction in the inner-self. Paul describes faith as an element that can only be and actualized in the heart with correlation with true love (Gass & Seiter, 2015). Faith cannot work without the love of Lord Jesus, and demands a free spirit; a heart without offence, grudges, unforgiving spirit, the pain of the past, and other sinful nature. Faith is total persuasion and demands that we believe first before we see things physically. John 8:24, NIV illustrate that unless an individual is persuaded and believe in God, chances are that he/she might perish and die as a result of sin (Gass & Seiter, 2015). Furthermore, it stresses that everything starts in the spirit world before finally manifesting in the physical world. It does not rely on the mental ascent but the spirit being that elevates total trust, willingness to worship in truth and spirit, and made complete in love.
Expected Focus on Ethics
Good moral ethics is expected of a true Christian to manifest the love of God as well as bring persuasion of faith into reality. Faith is expressed through practical acts such as goodwill and trustworthiness. Christ’s characteristics of joy, love, patience, faithfulness, self-control, kindness, gentleness, and other attributes forms the moral ethics of Christian (Ian, 2016). In the book of Luke 14:23, NIV demonstrates Jesus Christ’s love and devotion to His disciplines on how to extend their hand in helping and savings souls through demonstration of love. Communicating in the likeness of Christ is a crucial technique inbreeding Christian persuasion to both Christians and other nonbelievers. It is impossible to please Lord God Almighty without faith which is actualized through genuine love. Moral ethics will ensure proper presentation of Christ’s Gospel to other willing souls. Furthermore, it is only through communicating love and acting on the living word of the Lord that will bring persuasion of Christianity into the life of both non-believers and believers. Since Christianity is of a man’s heart, those who believe in God should do so in truth and spirit (Ian, 2016). Christianity demands great sacrifices and genuine willingness of heart, this can only be achieved when an individual is persuaded.