Transcript LCEEL Theological-Andoy - North Philippine Union Conference

WELCOME
TO THE MOST CHALLENGING &
EXCITING TRAINING SEMINAR
OF THE AGES
METRO MANILA LOCAL
CHURCH ELITE
EVANGELISM
TRAINING SEMINAR
Theological Foundation
of Elite Evangelism
SLOGAN: “If God says it, I will
believe it. If God so
commands it, I will
do it”
Change My Heart Oh God
Change my heart oh
God
Make it ever new
Change my heart oh God
May I be like You
You are the potter
I am the clay
Mold me and make me
This is what I pray
Change my heart oh
God
Make it ever true
Change my heart oh God
May I be like You
Prayer
** Divine Call
Introduction
In Matt. 24:14 says, “The gospel
commission must be spread to the
ends of the earth and then the end
comes”
Ellen G. White pointed out basing
from Revelation 14:6 she said, “The
gospel invitation is to be given to all
the world- ‘to every nation, and
kindred, and tongue, and people’”
(Rev 14:6; White, COL, 228)
Introduction
Furthermore, Ellen G. White mentioned that,
“The last message of warning and mercy
is to lighten the whole earth with its glory.
It is to reach all classes of men, rich and
poor, high and low. ‘Go out into the
highways and hedges,’ Christ says, ‘and
compel them to come in, that My house
may be filled’” (White, COL, 228)
Elite People have been Neglected:
1. “The higher class have been strangely
neglected” (White, GW, 361)
2. “This class have been sadly neglected”
(White, MM, 244)
Biblical Foundation
a. Jonah 3:1-10= The evangelism
strategy of Jonah evangelizing
Nineveh,
b. John 3:1-21= The evangelism
strategy of Jesus to Nicodemus,
c. Acts 10-11:1-18= The evangelism
strategy of Peter to Cornelius
d. Luke 5:29-30= The evangelism
strategy of Matthew (Banquet)
e. Acts 8:26-40= The evangelism
strategy of Philip to the Ethiopian
Eunuch.
Operational Definition of the Word
Elite based on two sources:
1. Dictionaries
2. Social Weather Station (SWS)
Dictionaries Operational Definition
of the Word Elite:
Dictionaries:
1. Newbury House Dictionary of
American English
2. Longman Dictionary of
Contemporary English, and
3. Cambridge International
Dictionary of English
The Newbury House
Dictionary of American
English defines elite as
“leaders and professionals”
The Longman Dictionary of
Contemporary English
defines elite as “a group of
people who have a lot of
power and influence because
they have money,
knowledge, or special skills.”
In the Cambridge
International Dictionary of
English denotes elite as rich
people, and the best
educated people or highly
trained group of people in
the society.
SWS Operational Definition of the
Word Elite Based on Two Interests:
1. Socio-economic Interest, and
2. scholastic Interest
In the socio-economic and
scholastic pursuit, elite people
are the people understood to
be ranging from middle class to
upper
In the Socio-economic Interest:
In socioeconomic context of
SWS, if the monthly income is
above Php30,334.00,
entrepreneur and proprietor
who live in costly houses,
mansions, condominiums, well
tended subdivisions with
with security guards and with cars,
even if he/she is not academically
educated he/she is considered an
elite.
Below that line, belong to
common people (Dennis M. Arroyo,
“Are you Poor, Middle Class or
Rich,” Philippine Daily Inquirer,
January 7, 2002, C8).
In the Scholastic Interest:
In the scholastic context of
SWS, if the Monthly income is
above Php9,767, because of
the academic ranks and
intellect, he/she is considered
elite. Below that line, belong
to common people (Ibid).
These are the People with
Academic Professions and
People with Money
They are the people who have
been active part in the world’s
work
Borrowing the Indicator of Ellen
G. White, these are the People
living in the “Highways”
These are the people who bear
heavy responsibilities in public life
These are the people need to be
proclaimed by the Gospel
message
Ellen G. White Said,
“The call to be given ‘in highways,’ is to
be proclaimed to all who have been
active part in the world’s work, to the
teachers and leaders of the people.
Those who bear heavy responsibilities in
public life, physicians and teachers,
lawyers and judges, public officers and
businessmen, should be given a clear,
distinct messages” (Ev., 554-5; 6T, 78).
Who’s First to Hear the
Message?
“The message is FIRST to be
given ‘in the highways’ – to
men who have an active part in
the world’s work, to the
teachers and leaders of the
people” COL, 229
Men in business life, in high positions
of trust, men with large inventive
faculties and scientific insight, men
of genius, teachers of the gospel
whose minds have not been called
the special truths for this time these
should be the FIRST to HEAR the
CALL. To THEM the INVITATION
MUST be GIVEN” (COL, 233)
Evangelism, 555; MM, 244 E.G. White
said:
“There has not been the effort
made that should have been made
to reach the higher classes”
“This class have been sadly
neglected. The workers have
judged from appearance, and
have taken it as a certainty that
they would labor in vain”
“Let the Lord’s messengers bear this
in mind. To the shepherds of the
flock, the teachers divinely
appointed, it should come as a word
to be heeded. Those who belong to
the higher ranks of society are to be
sought out with tender affection and
brotherly regard” (COL, 233)
“There is a work to be done for the
wealthy …. The wealthy men Need
your labor in the love and fear of
God. Too often they trust in their
riches and feel no hunger …. Those
who stand in the world for their
education, wealth, or calling, are
seldom addressed personally… we
would not standby and see them
perish because he was a lawyer, a
merchant, or a judge…many in
high social positions are heart
sore, and sick of vanity. They are
longing for peace they have not.
In the highest ranks of society are
those who are hungering and
thirsting for salvation” COL, 230
Seventh-day Adventists Are Slow
“Again and again I am instructed to
present to our churches the work that
should be done in our large cities.
There is a great work to be done….
After we have been told that our
cities are to hear the message, but
how slow we are to heed the
instruction …
Seventh-day Adventists Are
Asleep
Seventh-day Adventists are
asleep … we are far behind in
following the light God has
given regarding the working
of our large cities”
Ev. 32-33
Reasons of Evangelizing
the Highways First
“When the truth is presented in
the highways, the hedges will
be opened and an extended
work will be done” Ev., 40;
Letter 168, (1909).
“Plans for the higher classes will
reach all…. First reach the high
classes…, but there should no
neglect of the lower classes….
Methods may be devised to reach
the higher classes …. Plans to reach
the best classes, and you will not
fail to reach the lower classes”
Ev., 553.
Gospel Workers, 348 E.G. White said:
“There are many wealthy men who are
susceptible to the influences and
impressions of the gospel message,
and who, when the Bible and the Bible
alone is presented to them as the
expositor of Christian faith and
practice, will be moved by the Spirit of
God to open doors for the
advancement of the gospel.
They will reveal a living faith in the
word of God, and will use their
entrusted means to prepare the way of
the Lord, to make straight in the desert
a highway for our God”
“So now, if men of influence and
large capacity for usefulness could
be won for Christ, then through
them what a work could be
accomplished in lifting up the fallen,
gathering the outcasts, spreading
far and wide the tidings of salvation.
Rapidly the invitation might be
given, and the guests be gathered
for the Lord’s table” COL, 232.
“Here is a field of labor that
should not be neglected. These
persons are stewards to whom
God has committed important
trusts. We should come close to
this class … many of them are
soul burdened; they long for
something, they know not ….
If saved to Jesus Christ, they will
be useful agents in the hands of
God to communicate the light to
others. If converted to the truth,
they will have a special burden to
draw other souls of this neglected
class to the light”
-Medical Ministry, 243.
E.G. White in the Gospel Workers, 349 said:
“The Lord desires that moneyed
men shall be converted,
and act as His helping hand in
reaching others…
and be led to use their entrusted
capital in His service.
He would have them invest the
means He has lent them, in doing
good, in opening the way for the
gospel to be preached to all
classes, nigh and afar off”
The Heaviest Burden of E.G.
White in Evangelism:
“The burden of the needs of our
cities have rested so heavily
upon me that it has sometimes
seemed that I should die”
-Ev., 34.
In the Gospel Workers, 361 says:
“In the higher walks of life will be found
many who will respond to the truth,
because it is consistent, because it
bears the stamp of the high character
of the gospel” (White, Gospel
Workers, 361)
In Luke 10:1-3 speaks of the truth that
Cities & Towns are already ready for
the harvest (kindly read for
understanding)
E.G. White said in the book
Evangelism, 556:
“The intelligent, the refined, are
altogether too much passed by.
The hook is not baited to catch this
class, and ways and methods are not
prayerfully devised to reach them
with truth that is able to make them
wise unto salvation”
“Thousands of wealthy men have gone to
their graves unwarned,
because they have been judged by
appearance, and passed by as hopeless
subjects.
But, indifferent as they may appear, I have
been shown that most of this class are soul
burdened.
There are thousands of rich men who are
starving for spiritual food.
Many in official life feel their need of
something which they have not. Few
among them go to Church… The teaching
they hear does not touch the soul.
Shall we make no personal effort in their
behalf?” (6T, 78).
We Shall Now Redeem the
Time:
“A great work is to be done … the
favorable time for our message to
be carried to the cities has passed
by, and this work has not been
done. I feel a heavy burden that
we shall now redeem the time”
Ev., 31, 231; Manuscript, 62.
Except Literature Evangelism, and
• Except Media Evangelism, there is no
other best evangelism strategy yet that
is workable to reach Elite People than
through Elite Church members
reaching their fellow Elite.
Therefore, training Elite Church
members to reach their fellow elite is
indispensible
No Time to Lose
• The work is before us; will we
engage in it? We must work fast,
we must go steadily forward. We
must be preparing for the great
day of the Lord. We have no time
to lose, no time to be engaged in
selfish purposes. The world is to
be warned.
COMMENDATION:
“Those who will exercise their Godgiven ability for the conversion to
the truth of the intellectual, the
refined, and the world-absorbed
wealthy class, are doing a good
and essential work”
-Medical Ministry, 24.
Recommended Evangelism Strategy to
• be done by our Elite Church members is
called Sectoral Elite Evangelism (SEE)
CxOs & Managers
Strategy.
Medical Sector
Academe Sector
Engineer & Architect
Sector
Sector
Politician, Lawyers, &
Judges Sector
Peace & Order or
Corps Sector
Business &
Entrepreneur Sector
EGWhite Recommendation for M2C
“Seven men should have been chosen to be
united with the president, to set in operation a
work in the great cities for those who are perishing with out the truth, while no determined
efforts are being put forth to save them. These
seven men should be men who are wide awake,
men that are humble and meek and lowly in
heart. Never should the cities have been
neglected as they are; for there has come most
decidedly message after message calling for
earnest labor.”
She added:
“No less than seven men should be chosen to
carry the large responsibilities of the work of
God in the great cities. And these men should
humble themselves daily and seek the Lord
most earnestly for sanctified wisdom. They
should relate themselves to God as men
desirous to be taught. They must be men of
prayer, who realize the peril of their own souls.
What should be the work of these seven men?
They should investigate the needs of the cities
and put forth earnest, decided efforts to
advance the work” (Evangelism, 37-38).
SLOGAN: “If God says it, I will
believe it. If God so
commands it, I will
do it”
Change My Heart Oh God
Change my heart oh
God
Make it ever new
Change my heart oh God
May I be like You
You are the potter
I am the clay
Mold me and make me
This is what I pray
Change my heart oh
God
Make it ever true
Change my heart oh God
May I be like You
Prayer
** Divine Call
GOD BLESS YOU