Evangelism Course

EVANGELISM Alvin L. Reid

Foundation: Evangelism Handbook

Chapter 1

The North American church is suffering from severe mission amnesia. It has forgotten why it exists. --Reggie McNeal

The MISSIONAL SHIFTMissional is the noun missionary modified to be an adjective. . . . If [churches] study and learn language, become a part of the culture, proclaim the good news, be the presence of Christ, and contextualize biblical life and church for that culturethey are a missional church.Stetzer and Dodson

Marks of a Missional Church (Stetzer and Dodson, Comeback Churches):IncarnationalIndigenousIntentional

Part 1

Biblical

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world: and that is an idea whose time has come.--Victor Hugo

Christianity is a movement to be advanced, not merely an institution to be maintained.

What Evangelism is Not

What Evangelism is NotThe Mute Approach

What Evangelism is NotThe Numbers Game

What Evangelism is NotProfessionals Need Only Apply

What Evangelism is NotCop-Out

What Evangelism ISBiblical Terms

The basic word for evangelism in the New Testament is the term transliterated into the English as evangel (noun) or evangelize (verb).

A second term is kerusso and its related forms. This verb form means to proclaim in the manner of a herald. It implies the declaration of an event.

Notice the words translated martureo(verb) and marturion (noun). Today we think of a martyr as someone who died for the faith. The Greek word martyr literally means a witness.

Matheteusate is the main verb in the Great Commission passage, Matthew 28:19-20: Goand make disciples. The verb in this passage is an imperative, a command.

Definitions1. Anglican

2. Lewis Drummond

3. D.T. Niles

1-P, Presence. For example, agricultural, medical missions.

2-P, Proclamation. Presenting the gospel in an understandable manner.

3-P, Persuasion. Second Corinthians 5:11 encourages hearers to respond.

5. Campus Crusade For Christ

6. Reid: Sharing the good news of Jesus Christ by word and life in the power of the Holy Spirit, so that unbelievers become followers of Jesus Christ in His church and in the culture.

I Thess. 1:5-10 As a ModelNot in WORD OnlyPOWERSPIRITCONVICTIONMISSIONAL LIVES

Why not today?

Chapter 3

Why Do We Do the Things That We Do?

Motives for Evangelism

The Character of GodThe Love of God

ObedienceSpiritual GrowthEternal RewardsEvangelism And UnbelieversFuture Joy Or Future Judgment

Chapter 4

The Mission of God A Missional Reading of Scripture

A missional hermeneutic, then, is not content simply to call for obedience to the Great Commission (thought it will assuredly include that as a matter of nonnegotiable importance), nor even to reflect on the missional implications of the Great Commandment. For behind both it will find the Great Communicationthe revelation of the identity of God, of Gods action in the world and Gods saving purpose for all creation. And for the fullness of this communication we need the whole Bible in all its parts and genres, for God has given us no less. A missional hermeneutic takes the indicative and the imperative of the biblical revelation with equal seriousness, and interprets each in the light of the other.C. J. H. Wright, The Mission of God (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006), 61-62.

The GREAT DRAMA of REDEMPTIONCREATION

FALL

REDEMPTION

RESTORATION

A Whole Bible Approach To The Great CommissionTaken from Convergent Church by Liederbach/Reid

1. Everything begins in God and is to return to God.2. Human existence must be understood as theocentric, not anthropocentric.

3. Individual life stories must conform to Gods story.

4. A higher affection must motivate a life lived for Gods glory.

5. A life of worship should compel us to invite the lost to join us.

6. The corporate worship of the church ought to change the culture.

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Jesus and PaulLife was in Him, and that life was the light of men. That light shines in the darkness, yet the darkness did not overcome it. --John 1:4-5

A. Our Lord Demonstrated An Evangelistic Passion (Matthew 9:36-38)

A. Our Lord Demonstrated An Evangelistic Passion

B. Jesus Practiced Mass Evangelism

A. Our Lord Demonstrated An Evangelistic Passion

B. Jesus Practiced Mass Evangelism

C. Jesus Taught The Importance of Evangelism

A. Our Lord Demonstrated An Evangelistic Passion

B. Jesus Practiced Mass Evangelism

C. Jesus Taught The Importance of Evangelism

D. Jesus Practiced Personal Evangelism

Intentional (4:4)Conversational (4:7)Respectful (4:7)Directional (4:10-15,19-24)Convictional (4:16-18)Confrontational (4:26)Missional (4:28-30)Attitudinal (All of John 4)

Matt 28:19-20John 20:21Mark 16:15Acts 1:8Luke 24-27-48

The Ministry Of The Apostle PaulI. Paul Was A Prepared Witness

A. Prior to His Conversion

B. By His Conversion

C. By His Commission

A. Paul Was A Passionate Witness

B. Paul Was An Intentional Witness

Personal evangelismMass evangelismHousehold evangelismApologetic evangelismMiracles and evangelismEducational evangelismLiterary evangelismChurch plantingUrban evangelismFollow-up

The Birth of a MovementEvangelism in the Acts

It was a small group of eleven men whom Jesus commissioned to carry on his work,and bring the gospel to the whole world. They were not distinguished; they were not well educated; they had no influential backers.If they had stopped to weight up the probabilities of succeeding in their mission, even granted their conviction that Jesus was alive, and that his Spirit went with them to equip them for their task, their hearts must surely have sunk, so heavily were the odds weighed against them. How could they possibly succeed? And yet they did. --Michael Green

Total PenetrationTotal Participation

Four times the Spirit speaks directly. Each time He says GO.8:29-35; 10:19-20; 13:2; 28:25-262. Consistently when the Spirit filled believers their immediate response was to share Christ: Acts 2:4, 11:4-8, 31; 6:3, 7; 9:17, 20; 11:24; 13:9

A. All Believers Witnessed Personally In the CultureB. Only Some Of The Disciples Preached To CrowdsC. Believers Lived Their Faith And Pursued Their Mission DailyD. They Reached People And Formed Churches

E. They Declared An Unchanging, Timeless MessageF. They Gave Testimony To The Gospels Impact On Their LivesG. They Shared Christ In The Face Of Tremendous ObstaclesH. They were willing to adapt their approach when needed.

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History I: Second Through the Eighteenth Centuries

The Spread Of Christianity Following The First Century: How Did They Do It?

Polycarp, bishop of SmyrnaIgnatius, bishop of AntiochIrenaeusJustin MartyrGregory Thaumaturgos

Ulfilas (318-388)Patrick of IrelandColumba (521-597)Augustine of Canterbury (545-605)Boniface

A. Evangelism On The Eve Of The Reformation

Peter Waldo Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) Jerome Savonarola (1452-1498)

Martin Luther (1486-1546)Clarified gospel, preaching the Word, priesthood of believers, considered himself an evangelist

John Calvin (1509-64)Focused on Gods work in salvation, emphasized singing of Psalms, preaching, personal evangelist

AnabaptistsEffective evangelism, believers baptism, persecuted by others

Great Awakenings And Evangelism

A. Philip Spener PiaDesideria

B. A.H. Francke

C. Nicholaus Ludwig Von Zinzendorf (1700-1760)

II. The First Great Awakening

LOG COLLEGE

Gilbert Tennent The Dangers of an Unconverted Ministry

Edwards, one of the greatest theologians, practitioners, and writers in the history of spiritual awakening.

When the operation is such to raise their esteem of Jesus.When the spirit that is at work operates against the interests of Satans kingdom.Men show a greater regard to the Holy Scriptures.If it leads persons to truth.If the spirit that is at work among a people operates as a spirit of love to God and man.

D. George Whitefield, also involved in the Evangelical Awakening in England with John and Charles Wesley, came to the colonies several times. He preached from north to south, uniting the various movements.

E. In the southern colonies, revival spread mainly through Methodists and Baptist. The leaders among Baptist were Shubal Stearns and Daniel Marshall.

John Wesley (1703-91)

George Whitefield (1714-70)

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History II: Nineteenth Century to Our Time

I felt ablaze with a desire to go through the length and breadth of Wales to tell of my Savior; and had that been possible, I was willing to pay God for doing so.--Evan Roberts

Churches call for prayerCollegesCamp MeetingsFinney

Jesus PeopleS.B.C.Explo 1972Worship & Witness

The Rise of The Evangelical MovementEvangelistic InnovationsCitywide, Interdenominational CrusadesDenominational EvangelismParachurch EvangelismInternational Conferences/Congresses on EvangelismInternational Missions EmphasesMethodological EvangelismThe Church Growth MovementThe Seeker MovementThe Emerging Church Movement

Chapter 9

A Theology of Evangelism

The greatest single proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.--T.S. Eliot

Evangelism and theology must be kept together to avoid extremismTheology and evangelism must remain linked because the Bible always weds theology with practical matters like evangelism.People who have been used of God have generally kept theology and evangelism in unity.

The ScripturesThe Doctrine of GodChrist And Salvation

The Great Drama of Redemption:CreationFallRedemptionConsummation

ExclusivismPluralismUniversalismAnnihilationismInclusivism

Part II

Spiritual Resources

Chapter 10

The Work of the Spirit

Evangelism without the Holy Spirit is like a body without a soul. Delos Miles

The Spirit Indwells And Seals The Believers At Conversion (Ephesians 1:13-14)

The Spirit Fills The Believers For ServiceHow Can You Know You Are FilledHindrances To The FillingHow Does A Person Receive The Filling?

The Spirit Gives Believers Gifts

He empowers us to witness (Acts 1:8)He gives us wisdom (Luke 12:12)He gives us boldness (Acts 4:31)He helps us in our praying (Rom. 8:16)He gives us the burning desire to see people saved (Acts 4:29-31)

The Spirit Precedes The Witness (Acts 10:1-15)

The Spirit Convicts The Unbeliever

The Spirit Does The Work Of Regeneration (John 3:5-6)

Chapter 11

The Power of PrayerThat Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees, why not make him Tremble?--Ralph Herring

Prayer: Intimacy with God that leads to the fulfillment of His purposes.

He modeled prayer (John 17).He spent time in personal prayer (Mark 1:35).He prayed at important events (Matt 26:36-44; Luke 6:12).He taught the importance of prayer (Matt 6).

Let your gaze be on God, your glance on your requests.Let prayer be your first choice, not your last.Pray retail, not wholesale.Pray more from conviction than from crisis.

PraisesThanksgivingConfessionIntercessionPetitionListening

Establish in your heart and mind the importance of the devotional time.Designate a time and place for your time with GodDo whatever is necessary to be spiritually preparedAdjust your time occasionally to avoid monotony.As you pray; make the Scripture a part of your time.

Pray For Boldness To WitnessPray In The Spirits PowerPray for Harvesters

Chapter 12

Testimony

For we are unable to stop speaking about what we have seen and heard --Peter and John in Acts 4:20

Sharing Your Conversion Testimony

Biblical ExamplesJohn 9Acts 22 & 26

It is RelevantIt is UniqueIt Holds Up A mirror To The Person With Whom You Share

Write out your testimony, seeking the Spirits guidance.

Give adequate but precise details showing how Christ became your Lord and Savior and how Christ meets your daily needs. Make sure you exalt the Christ of your experience more than your experiences.

Use language the nonbeliever can understand.

Relive your testimony as you tell it. This will enable you to present it with loving enthusiasm.

Relate your testimony to the Scripture, using pertinent verses as they are needed.

Speak distinctly and in a natural tone, avoiding any mannerisms that might detract from the presentation.

Be brief (two or three minutes). People are interested in your testimony but not your life story!

Ask the Holy Spirit to help you present Christ so the unbeliever will want to know him and will come to know him personally.

Share your Christian testimony regularly with other Christian members of your family, then with Christian friends, until it becomes a natural part of your daily conversation. Then share it with your lost friends and others.

After sharing your testimony, ask, Has anything like this ever happened to you? This question is a simple way to move into the gospel presentation.

A Recovery Testimony

The Spiritual Autobiography

Chapter 13

The Potency of Consistency: CharacterThe transformed character of Christian men and women is the key to world evangelization at the end of the twentieth century and beyond.--Leighton Ford

Integrity

Humility

Passion

Purity

Live by principle, not by feelings.Listen to God, not to popular opinion.Prioritize sacrifice rather than comfort.Consider the long-term consequence of your decision.

I have time to do that which is important.

If I dont control my time, someone else will.

I must decide what are the Big Rocks

I am responsible for my attitude.My attitude is either my friend or my enemy.I must constantly correct my attitude.My attitude is contagious.My attitude reflects my walk with God.

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DisciplinesWhat Are The Key Disciplines?

1. STUDYRepetitionConcentrationComprehensionReflection

Fasting

2. Fasting

3. Meditation, Silence, Solitude

4. Service

5. The Discipline of Evangelism

Part III

IntentionalLove All, Serve All.--Slogan of the Hard Rock Caf

Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes greatFew people attain great lives, in large part because it is just to easy to settle for a good life.--Jim Collins

Lead With Confidence In Gods Call

Lead By Equipping Other Leaders

Lead With Humility

Lead Others To Greatness For God

Lead By Faith

Lead By Defining Reality

Lead By The Strength Of Your Character

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Personal Evangelism:The What

FailureFailureRejection The Principle of Transference

The Role of Rejection

The initial contact with a lost person, through words and actions, which establishes enough relationship to allow a witness for Christ.

Approach People With A Heart Of Love-We care about them. People really do not care how much you know about God unless they can tell you also care about them!-We believe what we are talking about.-We have the hand of God on our lives.Approach In A Spirit of PrayerApproach With An Attitude Of ExpectancyBe Sensitive To The Spirit

Models Of A Good Approach1. Explore, Stimulate, Share2. Personal TestimonyHas anything like this ever happened to you?3. Acrostic FIREFamilyInterestsReligious backgroundExploratory Questions

Tools For Sharing Your FaithMarked New Testament

Gospel TractsNever use a tract you havent read.(Some are weak theologically.)Brevity is desirable.

Use tracts that are attractive.Be enthusiastic about the contents.Be sure the tract sets forth the facts of the gospel.The tract should explain the process by which a person becomes a Christian, particularly emphasizing repentance and faith.

Memorized Presentations

Role Playing

Calling For A Decision

Transitions Questions: Does what we have been discussing make sense to you?

Willingness Question: Is there any reason why you would not be willing to receive Gods gift of eternal life?

Commitment Question: Are you willing to turn from your sin and place your faith in Jesus right now?

Practical Ideas For Personal Witness

Follow-Up And Assimilation

Practical StepsBe as urgent about follow-up as you were about sharing Christ.

Help the new believer with assurance.

Give specific guidance in the Christian life.

Biblical ModelPersonal ContactPersonal PrayerPersonal RepresentativesPersonal CorrespondenceWaylon B. Moore

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Personal Evangelism: The HowSome wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell.C.T. Studd

Ways to Engage Believers In WitnessingAssignment visitation/planned evangelism

Lifestyle/spontaneous evangelism

Missional/relational witness.

Understanding Servant Evangelism

David Wheeler

What is Servant Evangelism

Servant evangelism is a combination of simple acts of kindness and intentional personal evangelismit involves intentionally sharing Christ by consistently modeling biblical servanthood.

Assignment Visitation/Planned EvangelismAnnual church survey.Door-to-door prospectingRegister guests at all servicesTelephone surveySunday school or church roll.Newcomer or utility lists.

Door-to-DoorSmile, smile, smile, always smile.Be polite, regardless of the response. You cannot tell how the Holy Spirit will honor your efforts.Use an effective survey tool. Offer a gift, as in servant evangelism.Have clearly designated areas, good maps, and instructions to avoid overlap and confusion.Train the surveyors to take good, clear information.Cover an area well.

Missional/Relational WitnessMissional witness means we witness in the context of our lifestyle with people we know and have a relationship.

Missional witness means we will build relationships with others who do not know Christ to love them to Him. It means we will appreciate (through sometimes not embrace) their interests and cultural distinctives).

Lifestyle/Spontaneous EvangelismR.A. Torreys two important rules to remember when witnessing in public:

Obey the Holy Spirit.

Never embarrass the person to whom you are witnessing.

Chapter 18

Church EvangelismThe church is the only institution on earth raised up to exist for its own nonmembers.William Temple

Features of the Church for Today1. The base for reaching the world, according to the New Testament, is the local church.

Three Areas Of Balance

Church + Culture Gospel = LiberalismChurch + Gospel Gospel = FundamentalismGospel + Culture Church = Parachurch

Features of the Church for Today2. Some see the church as irrelevant. 3. Some are victims of the Edifice Complex (institutionalism).4. Some make a sharp, unbiblical clergy-laity separation.5. Some have an unhealthy and unbiblical emphasis on fellowship.

The Church Growth Movement

ModelsPurpose -Driven ChurchEmerging Church1. relevants2. reconstructionists3. revisionists

Revitalizing A Stagnant ChurchKnow Your Church FieldChange The CultureUtilize Short Term Mission Trips

Striking the Match of Strategic Short-term Evangelistic Missions

George RobinsonStarting a WildfireSTM teams equipped for and motivated toward appropriate cross-cultural evangelistic encounters.The KindlingSTM organizers need to prioritize the equipping of indigenous national leadership by going to the target area in advance of the volunteer team, in order to establish a mutually agreed upon long-term strategy.IgnitionThe purpose of the strategic STM should be partnering to share the simple trans-cultural message of the gospel in such a way that disciples are made and brought into new home groups that are located in the target area.Fanning the FlameAdd fuel to the fire by establishing interdependent partnerships with the indigenous leadership through helping them to develop and achieve ever-expanding church reproduction strategies.

4. Small Groups

Sunday School

The Key To Evangelistic Effectiveness:ContextualizationPrinciples of ContextualizationWe affirm that the Bible is the only infallible text that exists.We affirm that there is a biblical precedent for using bridges to reach out to others with the Gospel (Acts 17:22-23).We affirm an incarnational approach to missions that is bound by biblical parameters.We affirm both the sufficiency and unique nature of biblical revelation (2 Timothy 3:14-17).We affirm the need to be ethically sound in our evangelistic methodology (2 Corinthians 4:2)

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Worship Evangelism: Linking the Glory of God to the GospelNothing is more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than achieving a new order of thingsNiccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Worship In ScriptureLatreuo = veneration of God.Proskuneo (to worship) focuses on ones allegiance to the Lord.

Ralph Martin reminds us that, although we can gain a general knowledge about worship in the early church, there is, of course, no place in the New Testament which clearly states that the church had any set order of service, and very little information is supplied to us about the outward forms which were in use.

Christian Worship In HistoryLuther introduced hymns with more familiar tunes that were theologically rich and written in the language of the common man.

The Pietists of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries began writing subjective hymns, reflecting their emphasis on religion of the heart.

British pastor Isaac Watts was called the father of English hymnody.

Frank Segler a religious awakening has always been accompanied by a revision of the liturgy. One can trace the roots of music used for evangelistic purposes to the Evangelical Awakening and the ministry of John and Charles Wesley.The camp meetings of the Second Great Awakening were characterized by simple, emotional hymns, many with evangelistic appeals.The first true music evangelist to be widely recognized was Ira D. Sankey (1837-99), who teamed with evangelist D.L. Moody.

The Jesus Movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s laid the groundwork for a significant shift in the corporate worship of the American church. The charismatic movement added to the growing awareness of a need for freedom in worship.Two streams merged to create the genre known today as contemporary Christian music. Folk music, especially as it was expressed in the youth musical, eventually merged with the rock sound of the Jesus Movement coffeehouses to a form what is easily recognized today as contemporary Christian music.

Implications For Evangelism From Scripture And History For Corporate Worship TodayTheological BaseDistinguish Between Evangelistic Services And Worship ServicesResist False DichotomiesUnderstand The Difference Between Personal Preference And Biblical Truth

Thom Rainers study of effective evangelistic churches found the following about style.Various worship styles are effective. In this survey, the quality of worship was seen as more important than the particular style.The atmosphere of the service is critical for reaching people.The attitude of those leading the service played a bigger factor than the style: Leaders describe their worship service with such words as warm, exciting, loving, vibrant, hopeful, and worshipful.

Evangelism And Corporate Worship

Characteristics Of Worship EvangelismMorgenthaler suggested these:Nearness. Worship evangelism features a sense of Gods presence.Knowledge. The worship is centered on Christ.Vulnerability. This is an opening up to God.Interaction. Worship evangelism means participating in a relationship with God and others.

Morgenthalers five rudders to guide worship evangelism.Worship first, evangelize second.Never sacrifice authenticity for relevance.Add before you subtract.Be committed to relevance based on your communitys culture in the present and its meaningful religious past.Customize your own worship methodology.

Three Ways To Live Out Worship Evangelism:

Corporate

Family

Personal

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Mass EvangelismYou are not the oil, you are not the air-merely the point of combustion, the flashpoint where the light is born. You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and posses the light as a lens does.Dag Hammarskjold

Why Mass Evangelism?Mass evangelism and evangelists are biblical concepts.Mass evangelism reminds believers that people are lost and must be reached.Mass evangelism still works.

The Gospel InvitationBiblical Evidence The Effective, Invitation, Alan StreettHistorical Evidence

Principles for the InvitationGive it with a spiritually prepared mind.Give it expectantly.Give it dependently.Give it personally.Give it clearly.Give it courteously.Give it confidently.Give it urgently

Conducting An Evangelistic MeetingHosting A Guest EvangelistSecure an evangelist whom you know to have integrity.Set the date.Secure a thorough preparation manual.Begin preparations three to six months in advance.Organize a revival planning team to help with preparations.

Conducting An Evangelistic MeetingHosting A Guest Evangelist (cont)Pastor, be enthusiastic!Select a theme for the meeting.Use budgeted money for incidentals.Be clear with the evangelistic team about finances.If you use a love offering, extend a thoughtful, prepared request for the love offering in every service, especially Sunday morning.

Conducting An Evangelistic Meeting Hosting A Guest Evangelist (cont)Introduce the team each night.Take the minister to share Christ in homes.Schedule some fun-golf, for example.Have trained counselors available, especially for youth night.Pastor, extend the invitation.Be a gracious host.

Preparing For An Evangelistic MeetingOrganizational PreparationsSpiritual Preparation

Sports EvangelismMajor event-centered sports evangelism,Personality-centered evangelism,Competition-centered sports evangelism.

Part IVMissionalEd Stetzer and David Putman argue winsomely for the need of the church today to engage the culture in a missional manner. In their book Breaking the Missional Code they note how our culture has become glocal a convergence of the global world with our local communities.

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ParadigmsA church which pitches its tents without constantly looking out for new horizons, which does not continually strike camp, is being untrue to its calling.Hans Kung

Paradigms How We See The WorldThe Maintaining An Institution To Advancing A Movement

InstitutionMovementI GO to churchI AM the churchScorecard based onBased on sending seating capacitycapacityHotel for saintsHospital for sinnersMinimalisticHolisticProgrammaticOrganic

2. From Attractional Evangelism To Missional

3. From Programmatic To Incarnational

4. From Compartmentalized To Holistic Ministry

5. From Consumerism To Service

6. From Conformity In All Things To Conformity In Truth, Creativity, In Its Application

Creativity In EvangelismHunters-wild game dinnersSports-Upward BasketballMusic and the artsCraftsWhat non-religious talent/hobby/skill do you have that you can use for the gospel?

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Church PlantingFollowing Jesus into the mission field is either impossible or extremely difficult for the vast majority of congregations in the Western world because of one thing: They have a systems story that will not allow them to take the first step out of the institution into the mission field, even through the mission field is just outside the door of the congregation.Bill Easum

Why Plant Churches?Objections:Objection one: We already have plenty of churches.Objection two: Every church in this community used to be more full than it is now.Objection Three: Help the churches that are struggling first.

Keller on Church PlantingThe vigorous, continual planting of new congregations is the single most crucial strategy for:

The numerical growth of the Body of Christ in any city.

The continual corporate renewal and revival of the existing churches in a city. Nothing else will have the consistent impact of dynamic extensive church planting.

Church Planting In ActsJerusalem (Acts 1-7)Judea and Samaria (Acts 8-12). Much of this work was begun by regular believers, laity, rather than the apostles (8:1-4).Churches were planted to the ends of the earth in Acts 12-28.

ModelsModel 1: The Apostolic Harvest Church Planter

ParadigmStarts churches, raises up leaders from the harvest, moves to new churchBiblical ModelPaulHistoric/Modern ExampleMethodist circuit rider, house church movementPrinciplesPlanter starts church and moves onPlanter come out of the church and returnsPastor may/may not be classically educatedNew churches provide core for additional churches

Model 2: The Founding Pastor

ParadigmStarts a church, acts as church planter for a short time, and remains long tem to pastor the new churchBiblical ModelPeter and the Jerusalem churchHistoric/Modern ExampleCharles Spurgeon, Rick WarrenPrinciplesPlanter starts and pastors the church long termPastor often moves from another locationPastor often classically educatedIdeally, new church sponsors new congregation

Model 3: Team Planting

ParadigmA group of church planters relocates into an area to start a church. Often the team has a senior pastor.Biblical ModelPaul (at times)Historic/Modern ExampleMissionaries at Iona, team church plantsPrinciplesA team relocates to plant a new church (sometimes relocation is not necessary)Church planting vision often comes from one key member of the teamGood teams have a gift mix

Marks of Church PlantersEd Stetzer listed five marks of a church planter for today:MissionalIncarnationalTheologicalEcclesiologicalSpiritual

Best PracticesChurch planting SystemsChurch Planting TeamsHigh Member StandardsPerseverance

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Reaching the UnchurchedIf the culture rejects Christianity, it should be because it has refused to hear the gospel message of Christ rather than that it turned its back on the churchs outdated, culturally irrelevant methods.Albrey Malphurs

The Radically UnchurchedPeople who live in the West who have no clear personal understanding of the message of the gospel, and who have had little or no contact with a Bible-teaching, Christ-honoring church.

Dealing With Those Who Make ExcusesRecognize the objection while keeping the conversation focused on the gospel.Remember, the Holy Spirit will give you guidance. Trust him.The gospel itself will answer many honest questions.Many objections will not be raised if you maintain a proper attitude.

GuidelinesNegotiate; do not argue (think win/win).Avoid emotional confrontations.Accept the other person as an equal.Exercise gentleness.Check your motivation.

ApproachUse a transition statement.Convert the objection to a question.Answer the persons question.Continue with the gospel presentation.

Acts 16Reaching the UnchurchedLydia came to Christ mainly through an explanation.The slave girl came to Christ mainly through a demonstration of kindness.The jailor was reached because of a demonstration of character.

Reaching Those In Cults And Other ReligionsThe principles for witnessing to people in cults and other religions:Commit to a relationship with this person whenever possible.Know your faith and theirs. None of us can be an expert in all the different cults.Do not begin your witness by attacking the other persons beliefs.Share your own testimony.Explain the gospel clearly, noting especially the reality of sin and the need of a Savior.

Biblical ModelHe was provoked when he saw the city was given over to idols.He acknowledged their religious search.Paul knew their belief. He even quoted two of their poets (see Acts 17:28).Paul moved from their error to the truth.Paul clearly presented the gospel. (see Acts 17:23-31

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Reaching Children and familiesMany men and women of the age 60 and 70 years have been disciples of Christ from childhood.Justin Martyr

The Age of AccountabilityDeut. 1:392 Samuel 12:23Romans 7:9-10

Fish on Matthew 181. Conversion occurs on the level of a child.

2. Humility belongs to a child.

3. A little child can believe in Jesus.

4. To cause a child to stumble is serious.

5. We should seek children as a shepherd seeks a stray sheep.

6. The Fathers will is that no child should perish.

Principles for Dealing with Children1. Deal with each child individually.

2. Avoid asking yes or no questions.

3. Consider the childs religious background.

4. Do not use fear as a primary motivation.

5. Explain the gospel on a childs level.

6. Affirm the child regardless of the level of understanding.

7. Distinguish between the internal experience of conversion and the external expressions associated with it.

Opportunities to Evangelize ChildrenVBSChildrens Night at Evangelistic MeetingsSS teachersUPWARD SportsPARENTS!!!

Inheritance: Passing on a Legacy of Faithhttp://www.planetstudents.org/PS_inheritance.php

Deuteronomy 6:4-9`Demonstrate GodlinessEducate in GodlinessWords are to be in your (Parents) heartRepeat to ChildrenTalk about them in your houseWhen you walk along the roadWhen you lie down and get upPlace them where all can seeMISSONAL FAMILIES!

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Reaching the Next GenerationThe work has been chiefly amongst the young; and comparatively but few others have been made partakers of it. And indeed it has commonly been so, when God has begun any great work for the revival of his church; he has taken the young people, and has cast off the old and stiff-necked generation.Jonathan Edwards, commenting on the First Great Wakening

The Potential Of YouthBiblical Perspective On Youth

Historical ExamplesPietismFirst Great AwakeningEvangelical AwakeningHaystack RevivalCollege Movement

Reaching Students TodayWe need a reformation in student ministry at the youth and college levels.

Fundamental elements for effective youth ministry from Raising the Bar.Recover the Biblical Place of parents (Deut. 6:4-9)

Building a foundation for student ministry, not a youth group.Biblical TruthPassionate EvangelismAuthentic WorshipBold Prayer

Principles for Reaching Students TodayThe first step in reaching youth is simply this: try to reach them.We must see technology as our friend in evangelism.We must use the media and the arts in biblical ways to declare Christ to this generation.Hold to the cross and the truthfulness of Scripture.Demonstrate intimacy with God and people.Churches must place a higher priority on youth.Those of us who are older can listen to young people.

Chapter 26

Reach the Cities, Reach the NationsChristianity was an urban movement, and the New Testament was set down by urbanites. Rodney Stark

The single most effective way for Christians to reach the US would be for 25% of them to move to two or three of the largest cities and stay there for three generations.Tim KellerSo there was great joy in that city (Acts 8:8).

I have many people in this city (Acts 18:10).

But they now aspire to a better land-a heavenly one.for He has prepared a city for them (Hebrews 11:16)

Why The Cities?Biblically, the gospel spread via the cities of the Roman world.Strategically, commerce and culture flow through the cities.Cities are changing.

The center city, unlike the inner city (where the poor live) or where the working-class live, is where there is a confluence of a) residences for professionals b) major work and job centers c) major cultural institutions-all in close proximity.Keller

In 2000 80% of people in the US lived in metro areas, but only 50% of Southern Baptist churches are there.

Three thingsHaving taken this class and studied this subject, what are THREE things you can do differently to make you a more effective disciple of Jesus, especially in terms of your own witness?

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