When Christ ascended He gave five gifts to humankind; of these gifts, some were evangelists. What was their counsel and practice?
Evangelistic counsel and practice would encourage and equip God’s people to reach out to others with the narratives of Scripture so that they can help those who do not know God’s story to make sense of their story in light of His saving story. This is what Philip, the evangelist, did with the Ethiopian official as he had opportunity to talk about these things on the road from Jerusalem to Gaza (Acts 8). The official could not make sense of the passage that he was reading from Isaiah so, beginning with that very passage, Philip “told him the good news about Jesus.”
It is my understanding from God’s Word that every person is precious to God and that every person’s life is like a “text.” Evangelistic counsel and practice would encourage and equip God’s people to understand and interpret the “text” of another person’s life in light of His “texts,” the sacred Scriptures (Law and Gospel), especially the saving “text” of the Word become flesh, Jesus Christ (John 3-4) so that those who do not have a saving relationship with Jesus might come to know and believe in Him.