Outreach Evangelism: Starting Conversations with the Community

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Outreach EvangelismStarting Conversations with
the Community

• Brett Andrews
• Church Planter / Lead Guy,
• New Life Christian Church

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This is a football
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Vince Lombardi

• 1959-1967 Green Bay Packers
• 1969 Washington Redskins
• Won 3 League Championships
• Won 2 Superbowls
• Career Regular Season
• 96-34-6
• Career Post Season
• 9-1

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Joe Gibbs

• 1981-1992, 2004-2005 Washington Redskins
• Won 3 Superbowls
• Career Regular Season
• 140-76
• Career Post Season
• 17-6

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We exist to reach people where they are and to
help them love God and love Jesus better.
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First Assumption

• God is doing a new thing in your church.
• Theologically you are created in the image of a
  God who creates.
• God wants to create new things through you.

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Second Assumption

• The best methods for evangelism in your community
  are yet to be created.
• The best outreach evangelism in your community is
  yet to be done.

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THE BASICS- PRINCIPLES

• I. Are you George Mason or UConn?
• Creativity Flows from Hunger
• Do you schedule time to think about how to reach
  lost people?
• Is evangelism part of your meeting agendas?

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THE BASICS- PRINCIPLES

• II. Evangelism Begins and Ends with Jeff
  Jennifer
• Who is your Jeff? Jennifer?
• Dont rely on direct mail!
• All evangelism is personal evangelism.
• Who are you praying for?

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THE BASICS- PRINCIPLES

• III. You Choose The Tortoise or the Hare?
• Relationships vs. Attendance
• Tortoise Outreach Approach thinks
• How can we make it easier for Christians to do
  what they want to do start spiritual
  conversations with their friends?
• What do you talk about?
• Think Long Term

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THE BASICS- PRINCIPLES

• IV. Whats Your Message?
• Great Messaging Demands Great Care
• What is distinctive about you?
• Deliver what you promise.

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The message God is cool

• Ice cream,
• Frisbees and
• marketing get
• the Word out
• You dont have to
• be poor to get a
• handout from New Life Christian Church in
  Centreville, VA. You just need to watch for the
  churchs new ice ream truck, a 10,000 investment
  in public relations
• MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2005 USA TODAY, page 4D

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THE BASICS- PRINCIPLES

• V. Kobe vs. MJ

• How will you get everybody involved
• The key
• What can we do that will give us the opportunity
  to communicate vision AND create opportunities
  for our people to get involved in outreach?
• Live out your uniqueness

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Mike Eppes Rick Ruble

• New Life Christian Church Campus Pastors

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What Weve Learned

• No outreach is an island
• Six to stick is okay18 to stick is better
• You dont get what you dont ask for
• Success is measured by the number of touches
• Be deliberate
• Target locations
• Dollars spent ? number of touches

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Mike Eppes Rick Ruble

• New Life Christian Church Campus Pastors

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Wise as serpents innocent as doves

• Luke 168-9
• The master commended the dishonest manager
  because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of
  this world are more shrewd in dealing with their
  own kind than are the people of the light.  I
  tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for
  yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be
  welcomed into eternal dwellings.

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Dont just look back

• God has something better for you than Childrens
  Carnivals and Ice Cream Trucks.