They are to do whatever they are led to do I suppose (altho I do not see myself in quite the same light as the original disciples). I am not led to bang people over the head. I'm sure we all witness to people using the gifts we were given. Frankly, you and I don't save anyone anyway. The HS does that. As in all things, pray for His will to be revealed to you, and then, follow it. Maybe for you it does involve telling folks they are going to hell. For me it has not been that, yet (altho if someone asked me I wouldn't hesitate to tell them. But it's not something I revel in, sinners going to Hell. Maybe I will have to answer for that, but I'll answer to Jesus, and no one else.)
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True; we shouldn't.
The culture we live in has just about driven the Word of GOD out of the public view. I intend to bring as much back as I can.
NIV John 5:24
"I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.
40. On hearing his words, some of the people said, "Surely this man is the Prophet."
41. Others said, "He is the Christ." Still others asked, "How can the Christ come from Galilee?
"I have much to say in judgment of you. But he who sent me is reliable, and what I have heard from him I tell the world."
"As for the person who hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it.
How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?
NIV Acts 4:29
Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness.
NIV Acts 4:31
After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.
NIV Acts 9:28
So Saul stayed with them and moved about freely in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord.
NIV Acts 13:45-49
45. When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and talked abusively against what Paul was saying.
46. Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: "We had to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.
47. For this is what the Lord has commanded us: "`I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.' "
48. When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.
49. The word of the Lord spread through the whole region.
NIV Acts 18:26
He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him to their home and explained to him the way of God more adequately.
NIV Acts 28:31
Boldly and without hindrance he preached the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ.
NIV Romans 10:20
And Isaiah boldly says, "I was found by those who did not seek me; I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me."
NIV Romans 15:15
I have written you quite boldly on some points, as if to remind you of them again, because of the grace God gave me
NIV 2 Corinthians 3:12
Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.