The Evangelism System

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The Evangelism System

• The Evangelism System controls how many and who
  can connect to the church and the Lord
• With the emphasis on connecting to the Lord

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Symptoms of Evangelism Barrier

• Non Christians dont come, they feel judged
  immediately
• People examine the visitor, the cloths, manner,
  or words
• Legalism, lines instead of love
• Our way instead of meeting needs
• Few, if any, new people become Christians

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Churches that Evangelize

• Do not expect people to act like Christians until
  they are Christians
• Accept people without approving of their
  lifestyle
• Look for the searching heart not the outward
  appearance
• Understand the difference between rules and laws
• There is a difference between preference
  conviction
• Explore all the ways people are drawn to God

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Evangelism Requires

• Relationship of Trust
• They usually must develop a trusting relationship
  with an individual and the church before they
  trust the Savior you offer
• Different people trust at different rates
• How long does it take the average non-Christian
  in your church to trust Christ?

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Evangelism Requires(Cont)

• Information
• Christianity requires spiritual, mental,
  volitional, and emotional agreement with Biblical
  truth to become a Christian
• The Biblical truth must be constantly presented
  in a number of ways to allow for the saving
  embrace of Christ
• Different people ingest truth differently so we
  must explain the simple gospel in a variety of
  ways

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Evangelism Requires(Cont)

• Ministry of the Holy Spirit
• God is calling many in your city to repentance
  and faith in Him. Will your church be a place
  that he can send them for this life changing
  work?
• We must work with those who He is making ready,
  not wish or hope others were ready
• Aiming all our spiritual guns at the spiritually
  resistant and neglecting those who are ready

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Evangelism Requires(cont)

• Ministry of the Holy Spirit (cont.)
• Regeneration is God in the Holy Spirit making a
  person a new creature through deep confession,
  turning away from sin and new faith in God
• Regeneration is a God activity and we should help
  the non-Christian do business with God at the
  deepest level

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Evangelism Requires(cont)

• Exposes felt or real need
• People must see a need for God before they will
  come to God
• We must expand what they see to include the depth
  of their need for God
• When people come to your church do they regularly
  realize that they need God in all kinds of ways
  spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, personal,
  etc.

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The Moment of Salvation

• When someone wants to become a Christian
• You should know this is happening
• There should be a way to make this known
• They should really be ready to commit their life
  to Jesus Christ
• You should be ready to guide the person through
  the 48 hours as a Christian
• They should begin being discipled in the
  Christian life within 1-2 weeks

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What is the process of Evangelism?

• -6 Initial Awareness
• -5 Fundamentals
• -4 Implications
• -3 Positive Attitude
• -2 Problem Recognition
• -1 Decision
• 0 Conversion/Regeneration

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What is the process of Evangelism? (cont)

• 1 Evaluation
• 2 Incorporation (baptism/membership)
• 3 Behavior growth (maturity)
• 4 Conceptual growth (maturity)
• 5 Communion
• 6 Stewardship
• 7 Service
• 8 Reproduction and leadership

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Evangelism Styles
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What Types of Evangelism have Christians used?

• Mass Evangelism
• Examples George Whitfield, John Wesley, DL
  Moody, Billy Sunday, Billy Graham
• Main idea To get a big rally and present the
  largesse of Christianity and cause Christianity
  to seem the thing to do

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What Types of Evangelism have Christians used?

• Church Evangelism
• Examples Korean Community, Saddleback community,
  Robert Schulers ministry
• Main idea To get people to come to church and
  get to know people and like the social or
  educational benefits and buy into the whole
  church experience

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What Types of Evangelism have Christians used?

• Individual Evangelism
• Examples Door to door witnessing, beach
  evangelism, street preaching
• Main Idea To bring an individual person to see
  their need for the Savior and to make a
  profession of faith in Christ by one on one work

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What Types of Evangelism have Christians used?

• Small Group Evangelism
• Examples Jesus Bible Studies, Neighborhood Bible
  studies for evangelism
• Main Idea To have a group of people get together
  and provide an incubator for the person or
  persons to come to Christ within a loving
  environment

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What Types of Evangelism have Christians used?

• Literature Evangelism
• Examples American Tract Society, churches tract
  racks, laundromat evangelism
• Main Idea To drop, give, distribute the
  information about the content of the gospel so
  people can believe

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What Types of Evangelism have Christians used?

• Service Evangelism
• Examples Full Gospel Tabernacle in Seoul Korea,
  the largest church in the world
• Main Idea To serve those around you in every
  conceivable way and then to invite them to a
  bible study at your home

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What Types of Evangelism have Christians used?

• Deliverance Evangelism
• Examples Gaderene Demoniac, a number of
  conversions at TLCC
• Main Idea To rid the person of demonic
  oppression for the person with the view of them
  committing themselves to Jesus Christ as Savior
  and Lord
• Compassion Evangelism
• Examples Lords food kitchen, World Vision, Care
  International
• Main Idea To meet a persons basic need and then
  tell them about Jesus the Savior of the world

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What Types of Evangelism have Christians used?

• Employment Evangelism
• Examples Larry Burketts illustrations of
  various business, Interchristo, churches job
  referral systems
• Main Idea Either to hire a person with the idea
  that you will demonstrate Christ so well and will
  lead that employee to Christ, or to provide a
  service in which you find people a job so that
  they will listen to the message of the gospel

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What Types of Evangelism have Christians used?

• Relational Evangelism
• Examples Lifestyle evangelism, leadership
  evangelism, age groups within churches
• Main Idea To develop friendships with
  non-Christians so that they will be willing to
  hear the message of the gospel

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What Types of Evangelism have Christians used?

• First Fruits Evangelism
• Examples Moravian Brethren, various pioneer
  missions groups
• Main Idea To go into a non-Christian group and
  discern those who are in the most actively
  interested in the things of God and work with
  them until they come to faith in Christ

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What Types of Evangelism have Christians used?

• Leadership Aimed Evangelism
• Examples Campus Crusade, Pauline evangelism,
  Early Missionary endeavors
• Main Idea To present the gospel to leaders so
  that they will become Christians and those under
  them will be influenced to become a Christian also

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What Types of Evangelism have Christians used?

• Business Evangelism
• Examples In-N-Out Burger, Southwestern Book
  Publishing Co.
• Main Idea To distribute the message of the
  gospel to customers, handlers, or others through
  the product, packaging, or people of the business
• Confrontational Evangelism
• Examples Campus Crusade, beach or mall
  evangelism, street preaching
• Main Idea To confront the person with the claims
  of Christ and see if they will respond

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What Types of Evangelism have Christians used?

• Birthrate Evangelism
• Examples Catholic church, many denominations,
  Institute in Basic Life Principles
• Main Idea To make sure that the babies born to
  believing parents become Christians and to have
  Christians have more babies than the pagan
  population

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What Types of Evangelism have Christians used?

• Cult Evangelism
• Examples Dr. Walter Martin and the Bible Answer
  Man, various apologetic groups, Tanners
• Main Idea To expose the fallacies of various
  cults to the cult members and then to present the
  truths of Christ

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What Types of Evangelism have Christians used?

• Prayer Evangelism
• Examples Praying Hyde, George Mueller, Various
  prayer intercessors
• Main Idea Either to pray for specific needs that
  a person has, asking God to meet those needs, so
  that they will listen to the gospel or to pray
  specifically that a person would come to the
  place where they would see their need to
  surrender to Christ

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What Types of Evangelism have Christians used?

• Visitor Evangelism
• Examples Evangelism Explosion, Southern Baptist
  churches
• Main Idea To visit every visitor to your church
  and present the claims of Christ to them and see
  if they will respond

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What Types of Evangelism have Christians used?

• Healing Evangelism
• Examples The early church, Vineyard Ministries,
  Healing crusades, Pentecostalsim
• Main Idea To have God heal physical or emotional
  problems to open the door to surrendering to
  Christ as Lord and Savior

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What Types of Evangelism have Christians used?

• Apologetics Evangelism
• Examples Search Ministries, Ravi Zacharias
  Minstries, Josh McDowell, LAbri Ministries
• Main Idea To answer peoples intellectual and
  emotional problems with the claims of
  Christianity so that they might believe in Christ
  as Savior and Lord

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What Types of Evangelism have Christians used?

• Subculture Evangelism
• Examples Campus Crusade for Christ, Navigators,
  Child Evangelism Fellowship
• Main Idea To create a Christian climate that is
  consistent with a particular age or other
  subculture parameter (John 112)
• Deliverance Evangelism
• Examples Ante-Nicene Church, various counseling
  ministries, Kurt Koch, Octavianos
• Main Idea To deliver someone from demonic or
  spiritual bondage so that they will receive Jesus
  Christ as their Lord and Savior

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Why is it Important to Proclaim Christ?

• Philip. 118
• What then? notwithstanding, every way,
  whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is
  preached and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will
  rejoice.

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Why is it Important to Proclaim Christ?

• Because God created everything (Gen 11,2)
• Because people are lost without meaning (Eph
  417,18)
• Without boundaries
• Without answers
• Because there will be a judgment day (Rom 26)
• Because Christ is Gods only salvation (Acts
  412)
• Because your relative, neighbor, coworker is
  headed to hell (Jude 6 Rev 2214,15)

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What are the 3 stages of Evangelism?

• Pre-evangelism
• Evangelism
• Post evangelism
• What is Pre-evangelism?
• Meeting felt needs
• Being sensitive to spiritual doorways
• When have I really witnessed to someone?
• When I have told them
• What Christ has done for me
• How I became a Christian

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When do I begin to do Evangelism?

• When I have
• Asked someone the key questions
• Shared
• The five facts about heaven and eternal life
• How I became a Christian
• Asked another person if they want to become a
  Christian

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What are the key questions of Evangelism

• Have you come to the place in your spiritual life
  where you could say for certain that if you were
  to die tonight that you would go to heaven?
• If you were to die tonight and stand before God
  and He were to ask you, Why should I let you
  into my heaven? What would you say?
• If you could talk to someone who knew for sure
  they were going to heaven when they died would
  you be interested in talking to them?

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What are the key questions of Evangelism

• Some people have doubts about whether they are
  going to heaven when they die. Have you ever had
  doubts? Would you like to clear up those doubts?

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Five facts about heaven and eternal life

• Heaven and eternal life is a free gift
• Man is sinful and separated from God
• God is loving and just
• Jesus Christ is God who became a man
• Faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord brings
  salvation