The E word

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The E word
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1910 The World Missionary Conference
the most notable gathering in the interest of
the world wide expansion of Christianity ever
held.
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1954 Billy Graham at Wembley Stadium
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2009 Baptism of Jade Goody and her sons
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Christine had been raised Anglican.. Religious
People of any serious kind made her
nervous They were like men in rain coats who
might or might not be flashers. You would be
going along with them in a normal way, and then
there would could be a swift movement and you
would look down to find the coat wide open
nothing on under it. Scarlet Ibis by Margaret
Atwood.
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I know I should be doing evangelism, but I just
dont want to but I feel guilty about that.
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Connecting with our own stories Very briefly
explain how you came to Christian faith ? What
were the most important factors in this?
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evangelism is that dimension and activity of
the churchs mission which seeks to offer every
person, everywhere, a valid opportunity to be
directly challenged by the gospel of explicit
faith in Jesus Christ, with a view to embracing
him as Saviour, becoming a loving member of his
community and being enlisted in his service
of reconciliation, peace and justice on
earth. David Bosch
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The Church exists for nothing else but to draw
people into Christ, to make them little
Christs. If they are not doing that, all the
cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, fresh
expressions, even the Bible itself, are simply a
waste of time. God became Man for no other
purpose. C. S. Lewis
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• Danger of reductionism
• Separate justification
• from sanctification
• Information rather
• than transformation
• Participation in Gods mission
• not consumers of gospel
• Danger of functional atheism

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The Three Stories Of Evangelism
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The big story
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The particular to the universal

• One place to every place
• One person/people to many
• One time into an ever new future

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These people who have been turning the world
upside down have come here also. Acts 17 7
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70 of all Christians have come to faith since
1900.
1940 1/32 world population were Christian

• 1/10 world population
• were Christian

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We live in a culture so saturated with self, in
which humans have placed themselves in the
centre for so long, that our natural tendency
,even as Christians ,is to focus on the human
aspects of evangelism and not the divine. Yet it
is God who takes the initiative to pursue
seekers, it is his Spirit who converts, it is
his gospel that saves. Evangelism is Gods
business from start to finish.
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Our story
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Transformed leaders have a clear conviction
that God can and will work through their
congregation to change lives and that their
congregation of people can be used by God to
help change the world. Such vision begins with
the clear vision of the evangelising
community and what that community might look like
in its particular setting and circumstances
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The responsive story
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• outsiders become insiders
• forgetters become rememberers
• beloved children become
• believeful adults

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• gradual
• relational
• communal
• formational
• transforming

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• beauty of life... causes strangers to join the
  ranks... we do not talk about great things we
  live them.
• (Minucius Felix c160ad)

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Evangelism is no safe church activity that will
sustain a conventional church, nor a routine
enterprise that will support a societal status
quo. The news that God has triumphed means that
a transformed life ,i.e. one changed by the
hearing of the good news, works to bring more
and more of life, personal and public, under
the rule of this world transforming, slave
liberating, covenant making, promise keeping
, justice commanding God.
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The Purposes of Gods Mission

• to deal with the guilt of human sin
• to defeat the powers of evil
• to destroy death
• to remove the barriers of alienation
• to heal and reconcile his whole creation

Chris Wright. The Mission of God
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By Gods incredible grace we have a gospel big
enough to redeem all that sin and evil has
touched. And every dimension of that good news is
good news utterly and only because of the blood
of Christ on the cross.
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Evangelism

• is the heart of mission
• seeks to bring people into the visible community
  of
• believers
• involves witnessing to what God has done, is
  doing
• and will do.
• is invitation
• is verbal
• requires a Christian community that demonstrates
  faith
• takes risks
• is a calling to give life not just receive it.
• is not offering individual bliss but a place in
  Gods mission

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A Prayer

• Colossians 4 v2-4
• The link between prayer evangelism
• Keeping watch

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A Look Out

• A sentry on the city wall
• Alert and alive to God
• Simeon and Anna

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A Steward

• Eph 3v7 or Col 1v23
• Diakonos
• A go between
• Jesus in John 13

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As for you, always be sober, endure suffering,
do the work of an evangelist, carry out your
ministry fully. 2 Timothy 4 v5.
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• Envision

• Encourage
• Equip
• Example
• Expectancy

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• Envision

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How does the church become the evangelising
centre it was meant to be? Before we think of
programmes or techniques, we need to be
renewed in our vision of who Christ is and what
Gods purposes are for the world.
Rebecca Manley
Pippert.
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• Envision

• Encourage
• Equip
• Example
• Expectancy

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The Christian movement was not initiated by a
band of professional evangelists eager to sign up
a PR firm and get the show on the road. Rather
the gospel spread and the church grew because the
sovereign hand of God was in the midst of this
community that found itself surrounded by people
who were puzzled intrigued by what they saw
happening. William Abrahams
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The relationship between community and
discipleship
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Love
Relate
Create
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The marks of a leader in evangelism
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A called leader
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A praying leader
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A leader who does the basics well
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An outwardly focused leader
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A passionate leader
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A bold leader
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A persistent leader
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An enabling leader
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An multiplying leader
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A leader who lives mission locally globally
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