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FRISCO—There is no other name for eternal salvation than Jesus Christ, and believers must tell it, Fort Worth pastor Bob Pearle reminded those at the Empower Evangelism Conference.
Terry Nichols, co-conspirator in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, didn’t ignite the bomb that killed 168 people, nor mastermind the crime, but he chose not to tell. For that, he’ll serve the rest of his life in prison.
“Some things are so important they carry with them the inherent responsibility to tell,” Pearle said in drawing a comparison to the stakes of not sharing the saving gospel message.
“God has sent us as witnesses and we have the responsibility from God” to tell others of imminent destruction apart from Christ.
With the oft-quoted “no other name” text of Acts 4:12, Pearle said believers must not be silent because God has equipped them for evangelism.
“The question is, are we ashamed? Will we do the task?”
“It’s not an option. If someone wants to go to Heaven, they must be saved,” Pearle said.
The exclusive claims of Christ and the demands of a holy God run counter to a culture that has “humanized God and deified man,” Pearle said.
Second, believers must tell because man is responsible before God, Pearle added.
“Every one of us will give an account of ourselves to God.” One reason we have been saved and been given the grace of God is being a conduit of God’s grace for others.
Third, believers must tell because the savior for all men is indispensible. “There is salvation in none other than Jesus Christ,” Pearle emphasized. He is not just another god or God by another name. “Jesus Christ is unique; there is no other like him. And there is no other name in which you must be saved.”
Finally, believers must tell because silence is impossible. Like Peter and John in Acts 4:20, “for we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.”
When sharing the faith becomes commonplace, we “can’t remain silent unless we have so quenched his work in our lives that we aren’t going to speak a word.”
