Should fathers evangelize with their families present?

Don Hart explains in this video that evangelism ought to be a family event.
Some individuals prefer to divide their children when it comes to evangelism, but there is not a command in Scripture to divide the family or examples of a family being divided during evangelism. Rather, there can be great benefits that result from evangelizing alongside your family.

For instance, your children and wife are able to witness you sharing the Gospel with unbelievers. They get to see and hear the Gospel being shared within the home or in everyday interactions. Family evangelism can help to facilitate dialogue with unbelievers and present even more opportunities for sharing the Gospel.

Psalm 128:3 (NKJV) – “Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the very heart of your house, your children like olive plants all around your table.”

Our Lord's last command is our first priority. In the church, in the family, in the city, to the ends of the earth, join us in October for White Under Harvest. I frankly believe that evangelism is in many ways first and foremost a family event. There are many who would say, well I'll send my children to the government schools for purposes of evangelism, or I'll divide my family this way or that way for purposes of evangelism. And we just really need to ask the question, is that consistent with other biblical commands with regard to family?

And is there some conflict between evangelism and the family evangelizing? And of course there's not. The beauty of evangelism within a family is the fact that the family is doing it together. There is such power in the context of family. Some of the most important opportunities that I have had for evangelism have come because I was with my family.

And what better place for my children to be learning the importance of evangelism and seeing it modeled than as we do it within a family. And in that context, they do it safely. They do it in ways in which they are protected by their father. They do it in ways which are consistent with other biblical commands which fathers have, and yet we are fulfilling that great commission and we are doing it together as a family. We are doing it in the context of hospitality.

We're doing it in the context of our home. We're doing it as we're out and about and people see our families. And our families, as we embrace and love the vision of fruitfulness in children, again, so important for evangelism. The family context, family evangelism, will open doors that will not be available in any other way. There is something about a family that opens hearts, that opens minds, that opens dialogues, and that presents amazing opportunities for the Gospel.

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