What Luis Palau Taught Promise Keepers About Evangelism by LUIS PALAU WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KEN HARRISON, CHAIRMAN OF PROMISE KEEPERS for Charisma News
On Friday, we received the news that Dr. Luis Palau, celebrated evangelist and longtime friend of Promise Keepers, had passed to his eternal reward.
Palau spoke for Promise Keepers in stadiums across the width and breadth of our country. He reminded Promise Keepers that the life of integrity for a Christian man includes a commitment to sharing the Good News of the gospel with the lost.
Today, due in no small measure to his influence, the men of Promise Keepers are praying for a massive revival and transformation in our nation by 2025.
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In the 1990s, Promise Keepers published a landmark book, Seven Promises of a Promise Keeper, to explain what it meant to be a Promise Keeper. Of course, Palau wrote the chapter on the Great Commission. His words are as powerful and relevant now as they were then. I’m sharing them in the prayer that together, we’ll recommit to evangelizing our world just as Palau committed to evangelizing the world.
Here, then, are the words of encouragement to the men of Promise Keepers by Palau:
Lord, I promise to help fulfill the Great Commission in my world for Your glory.
It’s a gutsy commitment to make, no question about it. It’s not one to make lightly, flippantly or without counting the cost.
We men should lead the way—in our families, our churches and our communities. I can think of no greater thrill than obeying the Lord in this area of personal involvement in and commitment to evangelism.
God is calling you to be a Promise Keeper, a man of integrity. You know that. But have you grasped that the Lord is calling you to be a godly man who—as much as anything else—is committed to influencing his family, friends, neighbors, work associates, countrymen, and others around the world for Jesus Christ? Incredible? Idealistic? Impossible? Listen to what the Lord Jesus said:
