Transcript EVANGELISM Fall 2009

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 SHIFT
• “’Missional’ 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 culture—
they are a missional church.”
• Stetzer and Dodson
Marks of a Missional Church (Stetzer
and Dodson, Comeback Churches):
1. Incarnational
2. Indigenous
3. Intentional
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 Not
1. The Mute Approach
What Evangelism is Not
2. The Numbers Game
What Evangelism is Not
3. Professionals Need Only
Apply
What Evangelism is Not
4. Cop-Out
What Evangelism IS
Biblical 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: “Go…and make
disciples.” The verb in this passage
is an imperative, a command.
Definitions
1. 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 Model
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Not in WORD Only
POWER
SPIRIT
CONVICTION
MISSIONAL LIVES
• Why not today?
Chapter 3
Why Do We Do the Things That We
Do?
Motives for Evangelism
• The Character of
God
• The Love of God
•Obedience
•Spiritual Growth
•Eternal Rewards
•Evangelism And Unbelievers
•Future 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 Communication—the revelation of the
identity of God, of God’s action in the world and
God’s 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 REDEMPTION
• CREATION
▫ FALL
REDEMPTION
RESTORATION
A “Whole Bible” Approach To The
Great Commission
• Taken 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 God’s story.
4. A higher affection must
motivate a life lived for God’s
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.
Chapter 5
Jesus and Paul
Life 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 28:19-20
Mark 16:15
Luke 24-27-48
John 20:21
Acts 1:8
The Ministry Of
The Apostle Paul
I. 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 evangelism
•Mass evangelism
•Household evangelism
•Apologetic evangelism
•Miracles and evangelism
•Educational evangelism
•Literary evangelism
•Church planting
•Urban evangelism
•Follow-up
The Birth of a Movement
Evangelism 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 Penetration
•Total Participation
1. Four times the Spirit speaks directly.
Each time He says GO.
8:29-35; 10:19-20; 13:2; 28:25-26
2. 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
Culture
B. Only Some Of The Disciples Preached To
Crowds
C. Believers Lived Their Faith And Pursued
Their Mission Daily
D. They Reached People And Formed Churches
E. They Declared An Unchanging,
Timeless Message
F. They Gave Testimony To The
Gospel’s Impact On Their Lives
G. They Shared Christ In The Face Of
Tremendous Obstacles
H. They were willing to adapt their
approach when needed.
Chapter 7
History I: Second Through the
Eighteenth Centuries
The Spread Of Christianity
Following The First Century: How
Did They Do It?
•Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna
•Ignatius, bishop of Antioch
•Irenaeus
•Justin Martyr
•Gregory Thaumaturgos
•Ulfilas (318-388)
•Patrick of Ireland
•Columba (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 God’s work in salvation, emphasized
singing of Psalms, preaching, personal
evangelist
Anabaptists
Effective 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
1.
2.
3.
4.
Evangelistic preaching;
Zealous visitation;
Church discipline; and
Lay preachers
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.
1. When the operation is such to raise their esteem
of Jesus.
2. When the spirit that is at work operates against
the interests of Satan’s kingdom.
3. Men show a greater regard to the Holy
Scriptures.
4. If it leads persons to truth.
5. 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)
Chapter 8
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
prayer
•Colleges
•Camp Meetings
•Finney
The Welsh Revival
• Evan Roberts
• 1. Confess every known sin.
• 2. Put away every doubtful
habit.
• 3. Obey the Holy Spirit
promptly.
• 4. Confess Jesus publicly.
•Jesus People
•S.B.C.
•Explo 1972
•Worship & Witness
The Rise of The Evangelical Movement
Evangelistic Innovations
Citywide, Interdenominational Crusades
Denominational Evangelism
Parachurch Evangelism
International Conferences/Congresses
on Evangelism
International Missions Emphases
Methodological Evangelism
The Church Growth Movement
The Seeker Movement
The 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
1. Evangelism and theology must be kept
together to avoid extremism
2. Theology and evangelism must remain
linked because the Bible always weds
theology with practical matters like
evangelism.
3. People who have been used of God have
generally kept theology and evangelism in
unity.
•The Scriptures
•The Doctrine of God
•Christ And Salvation
The Great Drama of
Redemption:
•Creation
•Fall
•Redemption
•Consummation
•Exclusivism
•Pluralism
•Universalism
•Annihilationism
•Inclusivism
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
1. The Spirit Indwells And Seals The Believers
At Conversion (Ephesians 1:13-14)
2. The Spirit Fills The Believers For Service
a) How Can You Know You Are Filled
b) Hindrances To The Filling
c) How Does A Person Receive The
Filling?
3. The Spirit Gives Believers Gifts
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
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)
1. The Spirit Precedes The Witness
(Acts 10:1-15)
2. The Spirit Convicts The Unbeliever
1. The Spirit Does The Work Of
Regeneration (John 3:5-6)
Chapter 11
The Power of Prayer
That 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).
1. Let your gaze be on God, your glance on
your requests.
2. Let prayer be your first choice, not your
last.
3. Pray retail, not wholesale.
4. Pray more from conviction than from
crisis.
•Praises
•Thanksgiving
•Confession
•Intercession
•Petition
•Listening
1. Establish in your heart and mind the importance of the
devotional time.
2. Designate a time and place for your time with God
3. Do whatever is necessary to be spiritually prepared
4. Adjust your time occasionally to avoid monotony.
5. As you pray; make the Scripture a part of your time.
•Pray For Boldness To Witness
•Pray In The Spirit’s Power
•Pray 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 Examples
•John 9
• Acts 22 & 26
1. It is Relevant
2. It is Unique
3. It Holds Up A mirror To The
Person With Whom You Share
1. Write out your testimony, seeking the Spirit’s guidance.
2. 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.
3. Use language the nonbeliever can understand.
4. Relive your testimony as you tell it. This will enable you to
present it with loving enthusiasm.
5. Relate your testimony to the Scripture, using pertinent
verses as they are needed.
6. Speak distinctly and in a natural tone, avoiding any
mannerisms that might detract from the presentation.
7. Be brief (two or three minutes). People are interested
in your testimony but not your life story!
8. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you present Christ so the
unbeliever will want to know him and will come to
know him personally.
9. 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.
10. 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.
1. A Recovery Testimony
2. The Spiritual Autobiography
Chapter 13
The Potency of Consistency:
Character
The transformed character of Christian men and
women is the key to world evangelization at the
end of the twentieth century and beyond.
--Leighton Ford
1. Integrity
2.Humility
1. Passion
1. 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 don’t control my time, someone else
will.
I must decide what are the Big Rocks
1. I am responsible for my attitude.
2. My attitude is either my friend or my
enemy.
3. I must constantly correct my attitude.
4. My attitude is contagious.
5. My attitude reflects my walk with God.
Chapter 14
Disciplines
What Are The Key
Disciplines?
1. STUDY
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Repetition
Concentration
Comprehension
Reflection
Fasting
2. Fasting
3. Meditation, Silence,
Solitude
4. Service
5. The Discipline of
Evangelism
Part III
Intentional
Love All, Serve All.
--Slogan of the Hard Rock Café
Good is the enemy of great. And that is
one of the key reasons why we have so
little that becomes great…Few people
attain great lives, in large part because it
is just to easy to settle for a good life.
--Jim Collins
1. Lead With Confidence In God’s
Call
2. Lead By Equipping Other
Leaders
3. Lead With Humility
4. Lead Others To Greatness For
God
5. Lead By Faith
6. Lead By Defining Reality
7. Lead By The Strength Of Your
Character
Chapter 16
Personal Evangelism:
The What
Failure
Failure
Rejection
1. The Principle of Transference
1. 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.
1. 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.
2. Approach In A Spirit of Prayer
3. Approach With An Attitude Of Expectancy
4. Be Sensitive To The Spirit
Models Of A Good Approach
1. Explore, Stimulate, Share
2. Personal Testimony
“Has anything like this ever happened to you?”
3. Acrostic
FIRE
• Family
• Interests
• Religious background
• Exploratory Questions
Tools For Sharing Your Faith
•Marked New Testament
•Gospel Tracts
•Never use a tract you haven’t 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 God’s 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 Steps
1. Be as urgent about follow-up as you were about
sharing Christ.
2. Help the new believer with assurance.
3. Give specific guidance in the Christian life.
Biblical Model
1.
2.
3.
4.
Personal Contact
Personal Prayer
Personal Representatives
Personal Correspondence
Waylon B. Moore
Chapter 17
Personal Evangelism:
The How
Some 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 Witnessing
1. Assignment visitation/planned evangelism
2. Lifestyle/spontaneous evangelism
3. 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
evangelism…it involves intentionally sharing
Christ by consistently modeling biblical
servanthood.
Assignment Visitation/Planned
Evangelism
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Annual church survey.
Door-to-door prospecting
Register guests at all services
Telephone survey
Sunday school or church roll.
Newcomer or utility lists.
Door-to-Door
1. Smile, smile, smile, always smile.
2. Be polite, regardless of the response. You cannot
tell how the Holy Spirit will honor your efforts.
3. Use an effective survey tool.
4. Offer a gift, as in servant evangelism.
5. Have clearly designated areas, good maps, and
instructions to avoid overlap and confusion.
6. Train the surveyors to take good, clear
information.
7. Cover an area well.
Missional/Relational Witness
• Missional 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 Evangelism
 R.A. Torrey’s two important rules to remember
when witnessing in public:
1. Obey the Holy Spirit.
2. Never embarrass the person to whom you are
witnessing.
Chapter 18
Church Evangelism
The church is the only institution on earth
raised up to exist for its own nonmembers.
William Temple
Features of the Church for Today
1. The base for reaching the world, according to
the New Testament, is the local church.
Three Areas Of Balance
1. Church + Culture – Gospel = Liberalism
2. Church + Gospel – Gospel = Fundamentalism
3. Gospel + Culture – Church = Parachurch
Features of the Church for Today
• 2. 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
Models
• Purpose -Driven Church
• Emerging Church
• 1. relevants
• 2. reconstructionists
• 3. revisionists
Revitalizing A Stagnant Church
1. Know Your Church Field
2. Change The Culture
3. Utilize Short Term Mission Trips
Striking the Match of Strategic Short-term
Evangelistic Missions
George Robinson
1. Starting a Wildfire
STM teams equipped for and motivated toward appropriate crosscultural evangelistic encounters.
2. The Kindling
STM 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.
3. Ignition
The purpose of the strategic STM should be partnering to share the
simple transcultural 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.
4. Fanning the Flame
Add 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
5. Sunday School
The Key To Evangelistic Effectiveness:
Contextualization
Principles of Contextualization
1. We affirm that the Bible is the only infallible text
that exists.
2. We affirm that there is a biblical precedent for
using “bridges” to reach out to others with the
Gospel (Acts 17:22-23).
3. We affirm an incarnational approach to missions
that is bound by biblical parameters.
4. We affirm both the sufficiency and unique nature
of biblical revelation (2 Timothy 3:14-17).
5. We affirm the need to be ethically sound in our
evangelistic methodology (2 Corinthians 4:2)
Chapter 19
Worship Evangelism: Linking the Glory of
God to the Gospel
Nothing is more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of
success, nor more dangerous to handle, than achieving a
new order of things
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Worship In Scripture
Latreuo = veneration of God.
Proskuneo (“to worship) focuses on one’s 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 History
• Luther 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 Today
1. Theological Base
2. Distinguish Between Evangelistic Services And
Worship Services
3. Resist False Dichotomies
4. Understand The Difference Between Personal
Preference And Biblical Truth
Thom Rainer’s study of effective evangelistic
churches found the following about style.
1. Various worship styles are effective. In this
survey, the quality of worship was seen as
more important than the particular style.
2. The atmosphere of the service is critical for
reaching people.
3. 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 Evangelism
Morgenthaler suggested these:
1. Nearness. Worship evangelism features a
sense of God’s presence.
2. Knowledge. The worship is centered on
Christ.
3. Vulnerability. This is an opening up to
God.
4. Interaction. Worship evangelism means
participating in a relationship with God and
others.
Morgenthaler’s five rudders to guide
worship evangelism.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Worship first, evangelize second.
Never sacrifice authenticity for relevance.
Add before you subtract.
Be committed to relevance based on your
community’s culture in the present and its
meaningful religious past.
5. Customize your own worship methodology.
Three Ways To Live Out Worship
Evangelism:
1. Corporate
2. Family
3. Personal
Chapter 20
Mass Evangelism
You 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?
1. Mass evangelism and evangelists are biblical
concepts.
2. Mass evangelism reminds believers that people
are lost and must be reached.
3. Mass evangelism still works.
The Gospel Invitation
1. Biblical Evidence – The Effective, Invitation,
Alan Streett
2. Historical Evidence
Principles for the Invitation
1. Give it with a spiritually prepared
mind.
2. Give it expectantly.
3. Give it dependently.
4. Give it personally.
5. Give it clearly.
6. Give it courteously.
7. Give it confidently.
8. Give it urgently
Conducting An Evangelistic Meeting
Hosting A Guest Evangelist
1. Secure an evangelist whom you know to have
integrity.
2. Set the date.
3. Secure a thorough preparation manual.
4. Begin preparations three to six months in
advance.
5. Organize a revival planning team to help with
preparations.
Conducting An Evangelistic Meeting
Hosting A Guest Evangelist (con’t)
6. Pastor, be enthusiastic!
7. Select a theme for the meeting.
8. Use budgeted money for incidentals.
9. Be clear with the evangelistic team about
finances.
10. 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 (con’t)
11. Introduce the team each night.
12. Take the minister to share Christ in homes.
13. Schedule some fun-golf, for example.
14. Have trained counselors available, especially
for youth night.
15. Pastor, extend the invitation.
16. Be a gracious host.
Preparing For An Evangelistic Meeting
1. Organizational Preparations
2. Spiritual Preparation
Sports Evangelism
1. Major event-centered sports evangelism,
2. Personality-centered evangelism,
3. Competition-centered sports evangelism.
Part IV
Missional
Ed 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.
Chapter 21
Paradigms
A 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 World
1. The Maintaining An Institution To Advancing
A Movement
Institution
I GO to church
Scorecard based on
seating capacity
Hotel for saints
Minimalistic
Programmatic
Movement
I AM the church
Based on sending
capacity
Hospital for sinners
Holistic
Organic
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 Evangelism
1. Hunters-wild game dinners
2. Sports-Upward Basketball
3. Music and the arts
4. Crafts
What “non-religious” talent/hobby/skill do
you have that you can use for the gospel?
Chapter 22
Church Planting
Following 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 Planting
The 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 Acts
1. Jerusalem (Acts 1-7)
2. Judea and Samaria (Acts 8-12). Much of this
work was begun by regular believers, “laity,”
rather than the apostles (8:1-4).
3. Churches were planted “to the ends of the
earth” in Acts 12-28.
Models
Model 1: The Apostolic Harvest Church Planter
Paradigm
Starts churches, raises up leaders from
the harvest, moves to new church
Biblical Model
Paul
Historic/Modern Example
Methodist circuit rider, house church movement
Principles
Planter starts church and moves on
Planter come out of the church and returns
Pastor may/may not be classically educated
New churches provide core for additional
churches
Model 2: The Founding Pastor
Paradigm
Starts a church, acts as “church planter”
for a short time, and remains long tem to
pastor the new church
Biblical Model
Peter and the Jerusalem church
Historic/Modern Example
Charles Spurgeon, Rick Warren
Principles
Planter starts and pastors the church long term
Pastor often moves from another location
Pastor often classically educated
Ideally, new church sponsors new congregation
Model 3: Team Planting
Paradigm
A group of church planters relocates
into an area to start a church. Often the
team has a senior pastor.
Biblical Model
Paul (at times)
Historic/Modern Example
Missionaries at Iona, team church plants
Principles
A team relocates to plant a new church
(sometimes relocation is not necessary)
Church planting vision often comes from one
key member of the team
Good teams have a gift mix
Marks of Church Planters
Ed Stetzer listed five marks of a church planter for
today:
1. Missional
2. Incarnational
3. Theological
4. Ecclesiological
5. Spiritual
Best Practices
1.
2.
3.
4.
Church planting Systems
Church Planting Teams
High Member Standards
Perseverance
Chapter 23
Reaching the Unchurched
If 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 church’s outdated,
culturally irrelevant methods.
Albrey Malphurs
The Radically Unchurched
People 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 Excuses
1. Recognize the objection while keeping the
conversation focused on the gospel.
2. Remember, the Holy Spirit will give you
guidance. Trust him.
3. The gospel itself will answer many honest
questions.
4. Many objections will not be raised if you
maintain a proper attitude.
Guidelines
1. Negotiate; do not argue
(think win/win).
2. Avoid emotional confrontations.
3. Accept the other person as an equal.
4. Exercise gentleness.
5. Check your motivation.
Approach
1.
2.
3.
4.
Use a transition statement.
Convert the objection to a question.
Answer the person’s question.
Continue with the gospel presentation.
Acts 16
Reaching the Unchurched
1. Lydia came to Christ mainly through an
explanation.
2. The slave girl came to Christ mainly through a
demonstration of kindness.
3. The jailor was reached because of a
demonstration of character.
Reaching Those In Cults And Other
Religions
The principles for witnessing to people in cults and
other religions:
1. Commit to a relationship with this person
whenever possible.
2. Know your faith and theirs. None of us can be an
expert in all the different cults.
3. Do not begin your witness by attacking the other
person’s beliefs.
4. Share your own testimony.
5. Explain the gospel clearly, noting especially the
reality of sin and the need of a Savior.
Biblical Model
1. He was provoked when he saw the city was
given over to idols.
2. He acknowledged their religious search.
3. Paul knew their belief. He even quoted two of
their poets (see Acts 17:28).
4. Paul moved from their error to the truth.
5. Paul clearly presented the gospel. (see Acts
17:23-31
Chapter 24
Reaching Children and families
Many men and women of the age 60 and 70 years have
been disciples of Christ from childhood.
Justin Martyr
The Age of Accountability
• Deut. 1:39
• 2 Samuel 12:23
• Romans 7:9-10
Fish on Matthew 18
• 1. 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 Father’s will is that no child should
perish.
Principles for Dealing with Children
• 1. Deal with each child individually.
• 2. Avoid asking yes or no questions.
• 3. Consider the child’s religious background.
• 4. Do not use fear as a primary motivation.
• 5. Explain the gospel on a child’s 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 Children
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VBS
Children’s Night at Evangelistic Meetings
SS teachers
UPWARD Sports
PARENTS!!!
Inheritance: Passing on a Legacy of
Faith
• http://www.planetstudents.org/PS_inheritance.
php
Deuteronomy 6:4-9`
• Demonstrate Godliness
• Educate in Godliness
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Words are to be in your (Parent’s) heart
Repeat to Children
Talk about them in your house
When you walk along the road
When you lie down and get up
Place them where all can see
MISSONAL FAMILIES!
Chapter 25
Reaching the Next Generation
The 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 Youth
Biblical Perspective On Youth
Historical Examples
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Pietism
First Great Awakening
Evangelical Awakening
Haystack Revival
College Movement
Reaching Students Today
1. We need a reformation in student ministry at
the youth and college levels.
2. Fundamental elements for effective youth
ministry from Raising the Bar.
a) Recover the Biblical Place of parents (Deut. 6:4-9)
3.
Building a foundation for student ministry, not
a youth group.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Biblical Truth
Passionate Evangelism
Authentic Worship
Bold Prayer
Principles for Reaching Students Today
1. The first step in reaching youth is simply this: try
to reach them.
2. We must see technology as our friend in
evangelism.
3. We must use the media and the arts in biblical
ways to declare Christ to this generation.
4. Hold to the cross and the truthfulness of
Scripture.
5. Demonstrate intimacy with God and people.
6. Churches must place a higher priority on youth.
7. Those of us who are older can listen to young
people.
Chapter 26
Reach the Cities, Reach the Nations
“Christianity 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 Keller
“So 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?
1.
2.
3.
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 things
• Having 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?