In such cases, a church that soundly teaches the Gospel is not sheep stealing, but is
engaging in the evangelism of church people.
By the way, studies tell us that generally those who are most
effective in evangelism are those who have just started following Jesus.
I have evaluated that, as a native African missionary, my team and I can do more effective work
in evangelism with $ 10,000 than a visiting missionary can do with $ 100,000.
It is a new age in which those training
others in evangelism feel called to stress the importance of listening.
Courtney Joseph is a graduate of the Moody Bible Institute with a
degree in Evangelism and Discipleship.
A native African missionary can do more effective
work in evangelism with $ 10,000 than a visiting missionary can do with $ 100,000.
Many Christians are not
involved in evangelism because their local church neither encourages it nor has an effective program for dealing with the new convert.
«There's a real question about how family can do discipleship and also see their
role in evangelism as well.
So the angel of the Lord sent him on the road to Gaza, as rough a road then as now, for an
adventure in evangelism that is without precedent in the New Testament.
And does not the balance of Scripture indicate that
success in evangelism springs from spiritual renewal?
But he is never found exhorting them to be
active in evangelism... Mission, in other words, is gospel and not law; it is the overflowing of a great gift, not the carrying of a great burden».
In recent months I have served the Evangelism Working Group of the National Council of Churches as a part - time consultant, compiling a report on what the denominations are
doing in evangelism today — and what they are not doing.
We pledge ourselves to pray and work for unity in truth among all true believers in Jesus and to cooperate as fully as
possible in evangelism with other brothers and sisters in Christ so that the whole Church may take the whole gospel to the whole world.
An oak tree was planted to symbolise unity
in evangelism at an event hosted by Hope, the Evangelical Alliance and the Church of England.
The old - time street - corner evangelist symbolizes both what the media most desperately try to accomplish and how they most dismally fail —
especially in evangelism.
Church leaders from multiple denominations have committed to renewed
unity in evangelism and mission.
Indeed some fundamentalist literalist evangelical theologians accuse him and a host of others for heresy while not doing half as
much in evangelism, spirituality and charity.
First, the fact that they are only «attempts», and some of them not very helpful to the preacher, is a clear reminder that the use of Scripture by the
Church in her evangelism, polemics, and instruction is a most difficult problem.
Parachurch groups including Youth For Christ and Operation Mobilisation empowered many young people for mission, while Campus Crusade for Christ built on the Jesus People momentum by training a massive 30,000
people in evangelism at Spree 73.
While the whole film is excellent, I return time and again to one scene - an unlikely Hollywood moment where we get to seeDanny Devito give us a
lesson in evangelism.
The death and resurrection of Jesus are definitely part of what we
share in evangelism, but we tell them these things to convince and persuade them to believe in Jesus for eternal life, not because they get eternal life by believing in the death and resurrection of Jesus.
In general their claim to be evangelicals is more that they
believe in evangelism than that they practice it on any large scale.
SBC leaders were so grieved over its dwindling evangelistic effectiveness that they appointed a Pastors» Task Force last year to address the stark
decline in evangelism and baptism.
(Have you ever noticed that guilt is a heavy
motivator in evangelism — both in those who do it and in the message they preach?
While extremist moderates are being drawn more and more into the orbit of mainline Protestantism, centrist moderates, many of whom hold a high view of biblical authority, may find new common ground with irenic conservatives through joint
ventures in evangelism, social ministry, and witness in public life.
I love this «belonging before believing» idea and have seen it all over the place in churches that are doing an excellent
job in evangelism.
The friendship and cooperation between the Arminian John Wesley and the Calvinist George Whitefield during the First Great Awakening had shown that the two groups could work
together in evangelism and make common cause for the evangelical movement.
Yes, augment it with new models for mission, creativity in proclamation of the gospel and a renewed boldness in personal
engagement in evangelism.
Turns out it was an evangelistic crusade where a collection would be taken... Is this really
honesty in evangelism?
«You need to say what's true for you,» the Brethren counsel prospective
visitors in evangelism, «and you need to use words that are yours.»
It's an eminently practical approach, avoiding the excesses of
professionalism in evangelism while still recognizing that many congregations will need outside resource persons to help them.
For too long laypersons in our churches have felt that their stories were second - rate and inferior, that they could engage
in evangelism only if they learned some «authoritative» version of the gospel and could communicate it, step by step.
It's a long way from the denominational headquarters to St. George's by the Grange; even when a denomination has middle judicatory
staff in evangelism, it is hard for a limited national staff to respond to all the calls on its time in the synods and conferences.
He would probably turn us off as he had on TV, but he undoubtedly had corralled some
experts in evangelism and music and stewardship and parish management who would be helpful.
Jeff Haanen, a freelance writer and school administrator, spoke with Platt on the pervasiveness of «cultural Christianity,» the role of
hell in evangelism, and the sharper edges of following Christ today.