Go & Tell, Share & Show
2 Kings 7:9 after the Aramean siege of Samaria ended
Then they said to one another, “We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news. Now therefore come; let us go and tell…”
Luke 2:17, 20
When (the shepherds) had seen him (Jesus), they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child...glorifying and praising God...
Mark 5:19
Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.
John 1:45-46
Phillip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found the one Moses and the prophets wrote about...Come and see."
John 4:28-29
The (Samaritan) woman went and said to the people, "Come and see..."
Frances Havergal
https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/havergal_frances/10_RoyalGems_TheRoyalInvitation.cfm
The next thing to knowing that "we have found him" is to find someone else, and say, "Come and see."
John 3:11
...we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen...
Acts 4:20
We cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard.
Acts 5:20
Go and speak the whole word of Life.
1 John 4:14, 5:11
We have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
What Is Our Story?
(Paul before King Agrippa in Acts 26)
Who we were before we met Jesus
How we met Jesus, and who He is
Who we are now
Our story is not glorying in how bad we were, but glorifying how great God, His Son, and the Holy Spirit are.
See John 9:1-33 "This I know. I was blind but now I see!"
William Gurnall The Christian In Complete Armour
Hast thou none thou lovest so well as to wish them thy happiness?
Richard Baxter The Saints' Everlasting Rest
A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, than we anger them, or hazard our reputation with them.
John Eliot of Roxbury, Massachusetts published an Algonquian Bible in 1662 (the first non-English Bible in the New World) and wrote The Indian Grammar Begun in 1666 to help missionaries learn the Algonquian language. On the last page he wrote:
We must not sit still, and look for miracles; up and be doing, and the Lord be with thee. Prayers and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
P.B. Power, Vicar of Christ Church, Worthing from 1855-65, "I Wills" of the Psalms
Let us not be ashamed to glorify God, by telling what we know and feel He has done; let us watch our opportunity to bring out distinctly the fact of His acting; let us feel delighted at having an opportunity, from our own experience, of tell what must turn to His praise...If we be willing to talk of His deeds, He will give us enough to talk about.
William Chalmers Burns, missionary to China
https://www.wicketgate.co.uk/issue92/e92_4.html
It is a fearful sin to be going through the world with a light kindled by the Holy Ghost to guide sinners to Jesus, and yet to carry this as a dark lantern which can give no benefit to anyone.
C.H. Spurgeon "God Beseeching Sinners by His Ministers", 1873
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons19.xxxvi.html
You believe that men are diseased with sin, and that Christ is the only remedy; will you not tell them the remedy? You see men dying without hope; will you not tell them where there is hope as to the hereafter? You tremblingly feel that for souls to die without accepting the Saviour is eternal woe; will you not pray them, in Christ's stead, to be reconciled to God? As you will shortly appear before the judgement seat of Christ, be clear of the blood of all men. The Gospel has power to save today, and to save forever.
F.B. Meyer
God wants witnesses. A witness is not expected to reason or argue, but simply to state what he saw or heard, and to give facts. We are required to tell people what we have found Jesus to be to ourselves—to say what we have known and tasted and handled of the Word of Life (1 John 1:1-3 "We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard...").
On Isaiah 6:1-13
Great and Holy God, cleanse us in heart and speech and action, with the Blood shed on Calvary and the Fire of Thy Spirit, that we may be fitted for Thy Holy service. Cleanse, Call, Commission, and Send us!
A.W. Tozer The Set of the Sail
Paul said, "With the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." (Romans 10:10) This is usually understood to mean that God has laid upon us an arbitrary requirement to open our mouth in confession before salvation can become effective within us. Maybe that is the correct meaning of these verses. Or could it be that the confession is an evidence of the salvation which has come by faith to the heart, and where there is no impulse to impart, no outrushing of words in joyous testimony, there has been no true inward experience of saving grace?
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Safe in the World
We are meant to talk to people about the Lord Jesus Christ and to tell them He is the Son of God and that He has come into this world in order to save men and women… We are meant to tell men exactly why the world is as it is; we are meant to tell them about sin in the human heart and that nobody and nothing can deal with it save the Son of God…
Charles Wesley, “Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scripture”, 1762
https://books.google.com/books?id=AlJVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA242&lpg
On Exodus 4:10
How ready is the man to go
Whom God hath never sent -
How timorous, diffident and slow
His chosen instrument!
John Newton, 1786
https://books.google.com/books?id=bslVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA287&lpg
Go, bear the Saviour’s name to lands unknown,
Tell to the World His wondrous grace;
An energy divine thy words shall own,
And draw their untaught hearts to seek His face.
Many in quest of gold, or empty fame,
Would compass earth, or venture near the Poles;
But how much nobler thy reward and aim,
To spread His grace and win immortal souls!
William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army
'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face... whose mercy you have professed to obey... and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world.
God has placed every believer somewhere, to be His representative (2 Corinthians 5:20), to be a light (Matthew 5:14-16), to show and share His love (John 13:34, Luke 10:37), and speak the word of life (Acts 5:20) and truth (Ephesians 4:15).
What is my excuse for not doing so, where I am and when I have the opportunity (Galatians 6:10, Colossians 4:5)?
Who is asking YOU (John 12:21) “Sir, we want to meet Jesus”?