Every Christian is commissioned to be armed with the shoes of readiness for that which comes from the gospel of peace (Ephesians 6:15). The dictionary defines the word “evangelist” as a “preacher of the gospel”. This means that every Christian’s charter is to be an evangelist. But with the commercialization of many ministries, it is often confusing to many who are not in the faith as to who an evangelist is and what they are commissioned to do? The transfiguration of Jesus Christ lays the model for who an evangelist is and their responsibility!

The minority (three out of the twelve disciples) got a glimpse of the glory of God when Christ was transfigured. They were on a mountain top when they saw His glory. They would have to go down from the mountain top (to the valleys) to share their experience of God’s glory with the majority (nine out of the twelve disciples and the rest of the world).

To be an evangelist means that we are the minority. The gospel message of an evangelist is the glory of God that is seen in Christ and his transfiguration (in our lives). To be an evangelist means one needs to be closer to God (on the mountain top closer to the heavens than in the valley). To be an evangelist means that we ought to go down to the valley (and sometimes even the valley of the shadow of death) to share the experience of God’s glory with the world, which is a majority.

Are you/I an evangelist as God wants us to be?

Matthew 17:1-9 (KJV)
1 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
4 Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
6 And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.
7 And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid.
8 And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only.
9 And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.