However, research also shows that the Electronic Church separates people from their own communities, and is
not effective evangelism.
Not exact matches
I guess I was just arguing that personal
evangelism might in the long run be even more
effective, especially when we help people understand that they don't need all the polish of the stage production put on by
evangelism crusades, but can simply love people in their neighborhood.
I have evaluated that, as a native missionary my team and I can do an
effective work in
evangelism with 10.000 US$ $ $ than a visiting missionary can't do with 100.000 US$ $ $ $.
Since this topic is
not theory to me but life experience, my brief synopsis would be «of course Mass
Evangelism» is
effective.
I agree, its so costly to do a crusade in developed / western countries (crusades may
not be an
effective thing in such countries, so our argument shouldn't totally rule out the effectiveness of this form of
evangelism).
But if we are going to be
effective in our
evangelism, we must reach out to touch the unsaved, because they certainly are
not going to come into the church.
Alpha training is
not an «
evangelism solution on tape» or «
evangelism in a can,» but an
effective tool of education and
evangelism that can rejuvenate longtime church members and encourage them to share stories of faith and doubt.
Alpha is
not an «
evangelism solution on tape» or «
evangelism in a can,» but an
effective tool of education and
evangelism that can rejuvenate longtime church members and encourage them to share stories of faith and doubt.
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.
As far back at l978 a study by the Institute for American Church Growth indicated that mass
evangelism is
not an
effective method of increasing church membership.
It turns out that Mormons are
not the only UK faith community posting off their most passionate young believers for residential training in
effective evangelism.
It is
not my intention to discuss such ways of reaching the «unchurched»; suffice it to say that the World Council of Churches has lately been studying the problem of
evangelism and has recognized that the older methods,
effective enough in their time, will
not serve today and new methods need to be found.