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| 1: | Evangelistic, Small-group Home Bible Studies
Bible and accomplish two things. If we invited non-Christians to attend a small-group home study versus church services, a much higher ratio of people would attend a home study. People feel much more at ease, so they are more likely to return. One of the advantages of these home studies is that every member, regardless of Bible knowledge, can be evangelistic. In John 1:40-42, Andrew, a new disciple, brought Peter to Jesus. New Christians can immediately bring their family and friends to the weekly home studies. This is very important because statistics prove that new Christians have a great potential for influencing others to come to Christ even though they are the least equipped to actually teach. Another plus: If a non-Christian has attended a group study and is eventually baptized, he has already developed those important personal relationships with at least four other Christians. This accomplishes two things: it makes for a smooth and natural bridge to regular assembly attendance, ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-sm-grp-formats.htm | Size: 12K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 2: | Evangelistic, Small-group Home Bible Studies: Tips for success ... Here is the tool I currently use to invite people. I walk up to someone and say, Hello, I attend a small-group Bible study that is hosted in a home. We try to apply the Bible to our lives and learn from the life of Jesus. We are looking for new people to come. Would you be interested? If they appear interested at all, you must ask for their phone number! If they won't give it, leave them a card. If they say that they work evenings and couldn't attend, flip the card over and ask them if they want the first lesson of a free Bible correspondence course. Say, You can study the Bible in the privacy of your own home at your own speed. Just fill in your name, address, and phone number and I will see that you get lesson one. Generally, you will have to invite 50 people (50 attempts to establish a dialogue) to get one person who holds promise. Develop the routine of devoting one hour a week to intensive inviting in the parks, malls, campuses, etc. It takes boldness; but if you develop the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-sm-grp-tips.htm | Size: 11K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 3: | 5 Barriers to church growth Are you a mule or rabbit? Some members are like mules: Resistant to any new congregational ideas to evangelize and like a mule, unable to reproduce "Well, That's the Lord's work for today!" Click to View CONGREGATIONAL BARRIERS INTRODUCTION Edsel & Vega The Engineering Disasters Of The Automotive Industry ROLE OF THE EVANGELIST Chart: Pastor or Equipper? Who is your evangelist? I'd be glad to introduce you to anyone of the 100 here! Preachers: Pastor system: 4 sermons and classes a week no time left for soulwinning professional public speaker or evangelist? the church is a group of people streaming to a shrine to make an audience for a speaker Sales manager can outperform 10 - 1 other salesman. Would boss have him spend time selling or training others to sell? members: preacher says and does all the right things apathetic, stubborn and resistant to his efforts "Its the preachers job...what do we pay him for? If he pushes too hard he gets fired or quits in discouragement do not ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-barriers-growth.htm | Size: 18K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 4: | The Social Gospel: Attracting the Masses with Bread This approach is flawed and wrong. It is not the mandate of the church to attract people by offering them more benefits then joining the local social club. Use religion to attract and you will attract fewer people, but they will be there 10 years later after all the party animals have joined another church that puts on a bigger and better party! Good riddance! Attracting the Masses Grub or Gospel? Food Gospel of Christ Friends Bible Study Fun Gospel message Bible Pattern: John 6 Jesus proved the social gospel doesn't work! Steve Rudd Click Your Choice Go to Interactive Bible Websight Go back to Evangelism Websight ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-social-gospel.htm | Size: 2K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 5: | The Amazing Telecomputer! The Amazing Telecomputer! Click to View A telecomputer will generate between 100 and 200 enrollments in a correspondence course each month. It can be programmed to automatically phone every number in your city at a rate of 1,000 a day, play a prerecorded message (your voice), ask the listener a number of questions, record their answers, ask for their name and address, and then automatically record their phone number. At the end of each day, the responses are played back from a cassette tape and the first lesson of the correspondence course is mailed to them. But how do you actually get from a name on a piece of paper to a one-on-one study? You phone each one of them 30 days later. Anyone can easily program the telecomputer to dial 10 telephone exchanges (100,000 numbers) in about 60 seconds. It will continue to phone numbers from 9 a.m. till 9 p.m., seven days a week. It phones 1,000 numbers a day and will phone an entire exchange (10,000 numbers) in about one and a half weeks. The ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-telecomputer.htm | Size: 45K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 6: | Evangelistic Tent Meetings They are more effective in rural areas than in urban areas. The Jule Miller Film Strips are a great help in teaching. Tent meetings take a lot of physical work and a lot of looking after details. There is a good bit of damage, wear and loss--on pickup truck, trailer, tent, poles, lights, generator, amplifier and speaker, benches, speaker's stand, projector, song books, etc. It is not a one-man job. Brethren accompanying David are very helpful. Each meeting is different. You have to take things as you find them. Ability to handle drunks is helpful! The home classes and other calls made during the day are an essential part of a tent meeting's success. Even with the best kind of pre-baptism teaching and follow-up effort, one-half of the number baptized will prove to be still-born. Without good follow-up teaching, most of the others baptized will fall away. Years prove that some will continue to be faithful, and all the effort was justified. Steve Rudd Click Your Choice Go to Interactive ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-tent-meetings.htm | Size: 1K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 7: | Traditional churches reaching untraditional converts Kinda esoteric and very, very bright. He became a Christian while attending college. Across the street from the campus is a well-dressed, very conservative church. They want to develop a ministry to the students, but are not sure how to go about it. One day Bill decides to go there. He walks in with no shoes, jeans, his T-shirt, and wild hair. The service has already started and so Bill starts down the aisle looking for a seat. The church is completely packed and he can't find a seat. By now people are looking a bit uncomfortable, but no one says anything. Bill gets closer and closer and closer to the pulpit and when he realizes there are no seats, he just squats down right on the carpet. (Although perfectly acceptable behavior at a college fellowship, trust me, this had never happened in this church before!) By now the people are really uptight, and the tension in the air is thick. About this time, the minister realizes that from way at the back of the church, a deacon is slowly ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-undesirables.htm | Size: 3K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 8: | Putting flyers on Windshields of Cars to save souls! Putting flyers on Windshields of Cars to save souls! The Undiscovered Gold Mine! Click to View I have put more flyers on cars then almost anything else that requires my physical energies. I like to hit large malls at their peak times. I can do 1000 cars in 2 hours. It takes about 7 seconds per car. A team of five and do 2500 cars in an hour. That is a very large mall with a full surrounding parking lot that wraps all around. Here is one I have used a lot! You can print 5 per page (8.5 X 11 letter size) and they are small and easy to handle in your hand. See the coupons section of this website for many more examples. Click to View You will get about 1-4 replies per 1000 cars. Be bold, work hard and smile! If you see someone in their car just sitting there, they see you coming! Just walk right up to their window and say, here, we are handing these out... and hand them one. Motion for them to roll down their windows! Don't look for signs prohibiting such action. You are engaged in ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-windshields.htm | Size: 2K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 9: | A Working Plan for local evangelism Who were these talented soul-winners? Mostly new converts!" Vision Canada 1988 Steve Rudd Click Your Choice Go to Interactive Bible Websight Go back to Evangelism Websight ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-working-plan.htm | Size: 4K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 10: | Interactive Bible Home Page www.bible.ca How to Be Saved You need the blood of Christ! Here is how to apply it to your soul! 2. The Bible is God's Inspired Book! Do you really believe the Bible is Inspired? 3. Interactive Bible study series lessons where you learn Bible truths while on line for yourself. Anyone can understand what the Bible says. It is fun!!! 4. Fundamental Bible Doctrines What the Bible teaches on doctrinal subjects 5. Do you know what your church teaches: Official teachings of almost every church. 6. Sin and Morality How God expects you to live to get to heaven. 7. Searching for New Testament Christianity Seek and you will find! 8. Family Life Marriage, parenting, teens, dating, loneliness, low-self esteem etc. 9. The Supernatural God, Holy Spirit, angels, demons, Deity of Christ, heaven, hell, soul, spirit 10. Expository Files: Bible book outlines. 11. Evangelism 12. Bible prophecy 13. Psychiatry, Mental illness, Anxiety and Depression 14. Commentary on the book of Revelation 15. Holy Spirit: Tongues have ... ... https://www.bible.ca/ | Size: 96K Depth: 0 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 11: | Bible Quiz: 100's of questions for Outdoor Fairs & Home Shows Click to View See also, how to build a Bible quiz Board! Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View click on photo at right to see enlargement Click to View Click to View Click to View Fair questions at Outdoor festival 2002 Here are the 44 questions we used: Theme: "How to be saved!" What is the biblical definition of SIN? 1 John 3:4 × Sin is anything that harms another person. × Sin is anything that makes us feel bad. × Sin is breaking one of God's rules revealed in the Bible. 1 True or False: Identify the Sin! × Living common law with a set wedding date. (Heb 13:4) × Working on the Sabbath day. (Col 2:16) × The recreational use of drugs like marijuana, shrooms and "E" ecstasy. (Gal 5:20) × Pointing out sin in another person's life. (Matt 7:5; John 7:24) × Disconnecting the mileage counter (odometer) on your car to retain its cash value for resale. (1 Cor 6:10) × Missing a weekend family function to attend ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-fairs-home-shows.htm | Size: 80K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 12: | Fishing For Men Mt 13:44 Fishing For Men Mt 13:44 Click to View The metaphor of fishing examined I. Bait: (what we offer or how we attract them) A. Choosing an approach: chart: Grub or Gospel Attracting with bread: Jn 6 social events for the whole family dinner theaters friendship as an end Major fast food chain: "food friends and fun" Jesus way of attracting them: learning more about Jesus, God Bible study B. Programs: What we specifically offer to them They send away for Bible study materials like tracts, outlines & cassette tapes Attending the assembly Any regular service Special one day evangelistic gospel meeting: chart Evangelistic Small-group home Bible studies: One-one-one Bible studies: study sequence/film strips Bible Call program Bible correspondence course program II. Fishing Line: (Getting The Bait To The Bass) A. Printed or magnetic media: Medium: handbills and fliers newspapers posters waiting room display Cassette tapes Distribution: direct mail personally delivered to houses personally ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-fishing-men.htm | Size: 7K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 13: | The Growing vs. The Dying church God not on machines! Much evidence of this attitude exists in the church today. When we hold a gospel meeting, we rely mainly on the mass media to draw visitors rather than personal invitation by the members. A second example happens when we use a correspondence course. Our heart places more confidence in the design of the course than in the personal follow-up effort put forth by individuals. So, we search high and low for that perfect course and then sit back and let it do all the converting for us. When results are dismal, we conclude that correspondence courses don't work. Yet, they work very hard! We are the lazy ones! The key to church growth is to activate the general membership to be seekers of the lost. But this is a difficult tradition to overturn. Disinterest in reaching the lost is not the only problem we are battling today. We are also faced with general apathy, poor attendance, compromising of moral standards, and morgue-like worship services. Actually, all these little ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-dying-church.htm | Size: 9K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 14: | Door Knocking as a method of Evangelism Organizing a Door Knocking system for the church. By Steve Rudd The Therapy of Door Knocking. By Stanley E. Sayers Is Door Knocking In Personal Work Dead? by Bob Danklefsen Click to View "When I was a child, I used to sneak up to a door, ring the door bell and run like the wind!" "I still do it today, only now I call is "Evangelism training." Click to View Organizing a Door Knocking system for the church By Steve Rudd I have been involved in many door to door campaigns. The most important thing is to have humans who are willing to ring the doorbells. But with a little organization, you can help matters out quite a bit for repeat door knocking events on an ongoing basis. I first identify where I believe the most fertile neighborhoods are. Then I take a city map and use a copier to blow the map up to a large scale. Then I print one page for each street, that is approximately what can be done in one or two hours. Then I take each page, and highlight the assigned street with a yellow ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-door-knocking.htm | Size: 16K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 15: | The Universal Direct Mail or Windshield Flyer The Universal Direct Mail or Windshield Flyer! Click to View The only rule of evangelism: "Anything you do will bring results, with proper follow-up." In the past I have tried everything from putting flyers on windshields of cars in malls, to telecomputer auto telephone dialers that play pre-recorded scripts at supper hour. Everything works! Some better than others! Follow up is the key to success! This article will give you details of something we have done at least 10 times, that is highly at malls, as a handout at summer fairs and distributed successful! We have used this coupon for windshields it via direct mail. The double sided flyer pictured opposite page, is actual size and colours of what we used. It was distributed by the postal service within a "coupon envelope" which contained between 20-40 different flyers varying from Elvis collector plates to pizza coupons. (Similar to Val-Pak.) What Will It Cost You? I got a price quote for two major US cities from Val-Pak in Jan. 2001. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-direct-mail.htm | Size: 15K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 16: | Theoretical Overview of correspondence course work Bible and develop a trust in you as a teacher. Second, to whet their appetite for further Bible study. With my objective, I don't expect to convert the student through the mail. The course should bring a cold contact to the point of being a warm contact. The primary purpose of the course is not to increase their knowledge of the gospel but to increase their commitment level and desire for further study of the gospel. At this point, how they learn is more important than what they learn. My work with correspondence courses does not include two popular objectives often associated with these programs. First, I do not view a correspondence course as a means of merely preaching the gospel. I use newspaper articles instead. They do a better job and are cheaper. A correspondence course can accomplish much more than just giving sinners a hearing of the gospel. Second, I do not view a correspondence course as a means of bringing the student to a point of saving knowledge or even conversion. I ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-bc-overview.htm | Size: 12K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 17: | Correspondence course follow-up The Bible Course, which I wrote and tested locally. If you use a Bible course with all the latest bells and whistles but do not use proper follow-up, it will be a failure. On the other hand, if you use a poorly designed correspondence course but use proper follow-up techniques, you will likely be successful. Of course, for the best possible results you will want to use a well designed course with proper follow-up. Follow-up takes time, energy, boldness, tact, and wisdom and help from the Lord, but follow-up is the critical key to success. Remember, the primary purpose of a Bible course is not to teach them the gospel, but to salt their appetite for further study. A Bible course program stands or falls on the basis of getting personal Bible studies. Personal Bible studies include one-on-one studies, small group studies, and studies using filmstrips. I often hear of churches who have enrolled hundreds of students and spent thousands of dollars but have had very little to show for it. The ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-bc-follow-up.htm | Size: 23K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 18: | 15 Tips for running a successful correspondence course program Results differ dramatically. Having worked with Bible courses intensively for over 12 years and having developed a course of my own, I would like to discuss 15 tips that should bring success to your congregation in saving souls. I speak from my own personal viewpoint. You may not agree with me on every point. There are several different ways we can use correspondence courses. We can use them as a tool for grounding new Christians, as individual tracts, as Bible class materials or as a method of evangelizing. Let me make it clear that this article will only focus on using a correspondence course for outreach. I ask that you re-evaluate this method of evangelism and give it a second chance! 150,000 coupons ($1000) 150,000 of lesson #1 ($22,000) 70 return coupon to enroll in L#1 70 people decide to complete L#1 Only 30 people return L#1 Only 30 people actually return L#1 Total contacts: 70 Total contacts: 30 Click to View 1. Purpose of course (Convert/Baptize or prick interest for further ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-15-mistakes.htm | Size: 22K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 19: | Camera Ready Flyers! The flyers listed below are ones I have actually used. You download and print them for your own personal use by "right mouse clicking" on the poster you like and selecting "save image as" while on line. This is a Netscape function. If I can help, please contact me! This page may take 5 minutes to load! It's worth the wait! Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Discover it Yourself Click to ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-coupons.htm | Size: 8K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 20: | Move-in's, Drop-in's, Born-in's & Drag-in's Some churches are growing because many people are "move-ins" to their area. Others are growing because the church building is in a good location and non-Christians frequently just "drop-in." Finally, others are growing because of the number of members' children being baptized each year, hence, "born-ins." Churches do grow as a result of these three factors, but we would be deceiving ourselves to call it evangelism. Isn't one of our primary purposes as Christian's to get ourselves to heaven and take as many with us as we go? Stop and take a look at the church where you worship and determine the number of new members added over the last year or two. Now, subtract the "move-ins", the "drop-ins", and the "born-ins". What you have left is the number of people that have become Christians as a result of evangelistic work. In 1990, Geoffery Ellis conducted an important study regarding church growth in Ontario. His conclusions were that a congregation averaging 94 members will experience an ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-born-ins.htm | Size: 6K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 21: | The Power of a personal invitation! The Power of a personal invitation! Click to View The Future of the church I believe that personal inviting is where the future of the Lord's church lies. As a method of contacting and influencing seekers, it is Number 1. The institute for American Church Growth asked over 10,000 church-goers this question: What was responsible for your coming to Christ and this church? 2% I had a special need 3% I just walked in 6% I liked the minister 1% I visited here 5% I liked the Sunday school 1/2% I attended a gospel meeting 3% I liked the programs 79% A friend or relative invited me In this article I wish to examine this most powerful tool of evangelism the personal invitation. I believe there are three different categories of inviting. Let's begin by looking at the first. Click to View Those Who Know You Click to View Every Christian knows 200 people who are either friends, family, neighbors or work-mates. These are the people you spend time with. They are within your circle of influence. I ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-inviting.htm | Size: 11K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 22: | True Bible Quiz booth Stories They are quite scary to look at. However, I have observed that these rebellious teens are actually quite open to talk about God. They usually come into the booth in small groups. Can I come dressed in black??? conclusion: Both and old elder story I invited one group of Goths to church and the 16 year old girl asked if she could come as she was dressed. I said, "As long as you have nothing vulgar, swear words etc on the clothing and not topless, and if you felt you could not learn about God dressed any other way, come as you are! God is concerned about the inside more then the outside." Beware of God!!! Heb 10:26-31 Another incident where a teen Goth girl had on a T-shirt that said on the front, "BEWARE OF GOD" I commented that I liked that shirt because if you do evil, God will get you...so yes Beware of God. He is alive and watching you always. "I believe in the Devil!!!": 1 Pe 5:5-6, Eph 6:10-12 Another time, a Druid came up to my wife, Loreen and said in a slow deep scary voice, "I ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-bible-booth-stories.htm | Size: 11K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 23: | Using the local newspaper to save souls! Using the local newspaper to save souls! On this page: Display and classified Adds examples at this link: more ads Most of these were designed and used by Steve Rudd in his work as a local evangelist. Some Practical Suggestions for Effective Newspaper Advertising. by Roy A. Davison 49 Actual Newspaper add Examples. by Michael Hurst Click to View Display and 9classified Adds: Most of these were designed and used by Steve Rudd in his work as a local evangelist. 25 more examples at this link: more ads Click to View Click to View Some Practical Suggestions for Effective Newspaper Advertising by Roy A. Davison Advertising is expensive. Thus care should be taken that funds are not wasted because of ignorance of basic advertising principles. Most libraries have a number of books on advertising and those who are responsible for advertising in a congregation would do well to read several books on the subject. It can also be helpful to place your ads through an advertising agency. The use of ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-newspaper.htm | Size: 65K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 24: | Random Telephone Evangelism to save souls! Random Telephone Evangelism to save souls! Click to View Telephone Assisted Evangelism: by Steve Rudd One problem common to most Canadian churches (or any small churches) is limited funds for evangelism. We just don't have the money for a correspondence course program which can typically cost anywhere from two-four hundred dollars a month to operate. Therefore there is a great need to find ways of spreading the gospel that are both effective and cost efficient. The Virtues Of Telephone Assisted Evangelism: This method has been used by others and found to produce 65 contacts from 500 calls. That is about 1 in 8. It doesn't cost any money. Each of us have a SPECIFIC GOAL for the week to call a predetermined number of people. Between the five of us alone we will be calling 125 people a week. It energizes those members who don't feel they are able to teach. EVERY MEMBER CAN PARTICIPATE. The object is not to teach but just find those who are willing to study. Those who can teach do the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-phoning.htm | Size: 6K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 25: | The Key to church growth! The Key to church growth! Click to View The key to church growth lies in our ability to motivate and activate the general membership to reach the lost in an avenue in which each feels comfortable. Very few churches have even come close to achieving this. We have a pastor system among our preachers and a passive symptom among our members. How can we activate the entire church to be evangelistic? Answer this question and you hold the key to church growth in your hand! A. The process of church growth as a whole can be divided into four steps. THE FOUR "E'S" OF GROWTH: Evangelize the lost Edify the new convert Equip the willing Entrust to the faithful Every specific method of evangelism can be placed into one of three pigeon holes. Every Christian's conversion can be categorized into one of these holes: children of members mass media approach personal approach. The mass media approach employs newspaper advertising, radio and TV programs, mail drops, correspondence courses, Bible Call ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-key.htm | Size: 15K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 26: | Various Camera Ready Posters! Various Camera Ready Posters! Click to View The posters listed below are ones I have actually used. You download and print them for your own personal use by "right mouse clicking" on the poster you like and selecting "save image as" while on line. This is a Netscape function. If I can help, please contact me! This page may take 5 minutes to load! It's worth the wait! Click to View Here is an actual poster. It consists of an 8.5 X 11 page with a standard reply envelope glued to the back at the bottom so that the return cards can be placed there. I tape the envelope for added security on the back. Place a maximum of 4 coupons in the pouch and check the posters every 3 day. Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Steve Rudd Click Your Choice Go to Interactive Bible Websight Go back to Evangelism Websight ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-posters.htm | Size: 2K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 27: | Praying And Looking For Seekers! Praying And Looking For Seekers! Click to View Although God does not perform miracles or provide direct inspiration today, He still works apart from the word through answered prayer and providence. Each Christian must be involved in the process of reaching the lost. Our single greatest barrier today is contacting seekers to teach the gospel to. At one end of the spectrum of contacting seekers is the telecomputer which will enroll 150 people a month in a correspondence course. At the other end of the scale is a Christian praying to God to lead him to a seeker through providence. You don't believe God operates this way? Look again: Here is the triangle of seeking: 1. God Is Seeking The Lost: "But an hour is coming and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such people the Father seeks to be His worshippers" Jn 4:23. 2. The Lost Are Seeking God: "Ask and it shall be given to you, Seek and you will find, knock and the door shall be opened to ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-pray-look.htm | Size: 8K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 28: | Radio and TV for soulwinning Free Cable TV Ads available! I had cable 14 put up a free rotating banner add for the three weeks. It actually worked! We had people come just because they saw this add on the local cable information channel. Here is a picture I grabbed via the video port on my computer: Click to View 60 second Radio Ads work excellent! Here is an example of a 60 second radio commercial done at WDCX that was quite effective. WDCX 99.5 FM, Buffalo NY. Radio advertising. I bought 20 1 minute spots on the largest religious broadcaster in the area. It is out of Buffalo, but has huge listenership in Hamilton and Toronto. It cost $40 US per minute for a total of $800 US. Here is the script. I had only one sound effect. The high violin screech from the movie Psycho "Re Re Re Re". It is universally recognized as the sound of terror. Here is the script: "Some churches say it a sin to worship on Sunday! Is Sunday worship the mark of the beast? [Re Re Re Re] Well, the Hamilton church of Christ strongly disagrees ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-radio-TV.htm | Size: 3K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 29: | Statistics of Religion in North America How well would you say this observation describes YOU?" very accurately 45% somewhat accurately 33% not accurately at all 12% Religion a' La Carte Church leaders in 1800's "This is what religion is" church leaders today "What do you want religion to be" What will market bear? 2 Timothy 4:1-5 Religion A` La Carte in practice Ordination of Practicing Homosexuals 1 Cor 6:9-10 Pre-Marital Sex Permitted Heb 13:4 Woman Preaching in Pulpit 2 Tim 2:2 Emasculate God (father to person) Deut 4:2 Church Membership by yearly $$$ Heb 10:25 Every Social Program Under the Sun John 6 How can they practice such things? It is the doctrine of the times! Social gospel: attracting the masses with bread Negative Attendance Spiral To increase membership roll, Preachers water down gospel which leads to... Weekly attenders begin to view attendance as optional which leads to... Average commitment level drops which leads to... Fewer people, not more, attend church To increase membership roll, Preachers water down ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-stats.htm | Size: 15K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 30: | Meet Your Neighbour Tea Wife and I actually tried this one year and it was a great success. We were able to meet as memory serves me, between 10-15 new neighbours who actually did come! This is not the social gospel approach. We merely used this to meet the neighbours. Now remember, this was a personal work, in the wild west of Alberta! We lived in the heart of a city of 55,000 called Lethbridge, at the time. You cannot convert people who have never met!!! Format: 5.5 x 8.5 inches portrait on blue paper You're Invited to an Old Fashoned Meet Your Neighbour Tea Dear Folks, We've lived in this quarter section for a while now and felt it was downright high time that we got to know the kin in this neck of the woods. Saddle up the whole herd and ride on over for a few minutes of what 'dem city folks call "social interaction". Quarter Section: 1408 Ashgrove Rd Date: Sunday, May 4, 1984 Time: 2-4 PM (or whenever yer done milk'n betsy) Ma is cook'n up a mess of goodies so don't bring anything but yer yong 'uns. Just ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-tea.htm | Size: 2K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 31: | Using Surveys to generate leads for Bible study! Using Surveys to generate leads for Bible study! I have used surveys a lot. They can be effective tools of generating leads for Bible study as you go door to door. You can also use this for "aggressive blitzing" as I call it, by asking people in a mall, a busy street, part etc and asking them to do the survey. One very important note. Surveys do tend to be manipulative and can be perceived as being a dishonest trick. Saying stuff like, "this is not a church membership drive" is not correct. You are trying to find new members for your church. Don't lie to the public! Saying stuff like: "We're trying to better understand the religious beliefs of other people in our community" is also not really true. You don't really care to learn what the false religious beliefs are of the town, you want to teach them the truth from the Bible. Even merely calling it a survey, can be misleading, because you are not really conducting a true survey. You never record or care to record their answers to your ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-surveys.htm | Size: 19K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 32: | Parable of the Life-Saving Station The little life-saving station grew. Some of the new members of the life-saving station were unhappy that the building was so crude and so poorly equipped. They felt that a more comfortable place should be provided as the first refuge of those saved from the sea. So they replaced the emergency cots with beds and put better furniture in an enlarged building. Now the life-saving station became a popular gathering place for its members, and they re-decorated it beautifully and furnished it as a sort of club. Less of the members were now interested in going to sea on life-saving missions, so they hired life boat crews to do this work. The mission of life-saving was still given lip-service but most were too busy or lacked the necessary commitment to take part in the life-saving activities personally. About this time a large ship was wrecked off the coast, and the hired crews brought in boat loads of cold, wet, and half-drowned people. They were dirty and sick, and some of them had black ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-parable-life-saving.htm | Size: 3K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 33: | Gospel Meetings: The fabulous congregational letter writing campaign Gospel meetings are a long-standing tradition in the church. And I might add, a good one. But, are we being as effective as we could be with them as a method of outreach? We have all heard stories of how old brother so and so would baptize 50-100 people every meeting. Those times are gone for a number of reasons. Today, we are lucky if we get one visitor from the community, let alone baptize anyone. When someone asks how many visitors there were at a gospel meeting, the usual answer refers to the number of Christians visiting from other churches. We don't even think in terms of non-Christian visitors any more. We have two choices. We can view the meetings strictly as a time for edifying the saints and close the doors to the public, or we can change our approach to effectively reach non-Christians again. In a recent gospel meeting in which I was involved, we mailed 1900 invitations, placed 1800 on windshields of cars, mailed about 110 to correspondence course students, placed a ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-gospel-meet-letter.htm | Size: 9K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 34: | Gospel Meetings: The Edification vs. The Evangelistic types What has changed is almost every aspect of society. Gospel meetings today will never bring the responses of the good old days because of the following reasons: Religion is no longer the focus of society that it once was. Today, it is socially acceptable to be an atheist. People have much less free time in the 1990s and spending an evening at church is low on the list of priorities. Gospel meetings were a form of community entertainment in the 1890s. Today we are entertained by television. The quality of local preaching has dramatically improved to the point that there is little difference between the local preacher and the visiting big name preacher. Today, the supply of sermons far exceeds the demand. People can tune into radio or television any day and hear countless sermons. Additionally, local churches offer several sermons in their own buildings each week. Why would someone from another church attend your meeting when they already have a glut of such meetings to choose from at ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-gospel-meet-2-types.htm | Size: 13K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 35: | Congregational Salvation Experience Survey Congregational Salvation Experience Survey Click to View Have every member of your congregation complete this and learn from the results! Your Name:___... Conversion age: ______ What or who was responsible for your initial and first contact with the church: (check more than one if applicable) mass media TV ad Radio ad Printed material Flier delivered to home Correspondence course Gospel meeting Yellow pages Saw building, just walked in Personal effort of Christian: "Raised in the church" Not raised in church but relative influenced me as adult Friend Neighbour Workmate Some you bought or sold anything to Initially a complete stranger (door knocking, cold Turkey) Other interesting details about your conversion: ___... ___... Steve Rudd Click Your Choice Go to Interactive Bible Websight Go back to Evangelism Websight ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-salv-exp-survey.htm | Size: 2K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 36: | Reading the Hearts of Men! Reading the Hearts of Men! Click to View We marvel at the ability of Jesus to read the hearts of men. This special ability allowed Jesus to know how people were reacting to his teachings. He was then able to tailor a reply that would cut to the heart. The parable of the sower academically identifies four basic kinds of hearers (hearts). The best example of Jesus reading the hearts of men is in Luke 9:57-62: And as they were going along the road, someone said to him, I will follow you wherever you go. And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head. And he said to another, Follow me. But he said Permit me first to go and bury my father. But he said to him, Allow the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim everywhere the kingdom of God. And another also said, I will follow you, Lord; but first permit me to say good-bye to those at home. But Jesus said to him, No one, after putting his ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-reading-hearts.htm | Size: 10K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 37: | 5 Components of a Growing Church Why doesn't the church grow? The same reason we have so few elders-a lack of faithful children! The role of a parent is not merely to teach his children the gospel but rather to teach his children to teach the gospel to their children. We haven't successfully taught our children the gospel, let alone taught them how to teach their children. We are losing another generation of young people. With the loss of the young people, we lose another generation of qualified men for the eldership. Both problems are symptoms of the same cause. If the track record with our physical children is poor, it is even worse with our spiritual children (new converts). With our spiritual children, we "dunk'em and leave'em". No follow-up. As parents, we rely too much on educating our physical children through the public school system to the neglect of individual spiritual training in the home. In the church, we do the same with our spiritual babes; we rely upon the church's public school system (weekly sermons ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-growing-church.htm | Size: 10K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 38: | Biblical Evangelism: Biblical Guidelines to Effective Evangelism ... New Testament churches! Some years ago I purchased a fairly comprehensive bibliography of church growth books and set out to critically read them and glean the things I could. Some things in them were wrong but the final messages that filtered out from them said that conservative churches are uniquely positioned to grow in our urban world. I am not an expert but I am an interested student of Biblical evangelism. These are some things that have worked in Bible times and in growing New Testament churches today. There have been some great changes that have taken place in America and in our lives that have deeply affected the answer to the question, "Which evangelistic method is the most effective in urban churches today?" Before World War II, most churches of Christ in America were in rural areas. Today, even the "countryside" is really a suburb and evangelism does not follow the patterns and successes of the 1930's. After an introduction, I will focus on Biblical passages and motivation, ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-harold-comer-biblical-evangelism.htm | Size: 141K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 39: | Using "Wisdom Towards Outsiders" You who preach that one should not steal, do you steal? Click to View "with wisdom toward outsiders . . ." Time should be given to planning objectives when having a discussion with an outsider. But first, as the planning of objectives begins, consider several possible existing conditions of the outsider. What are her beliefs about the Bible? Does she understand that the scriptures are the complete, all-sufficient word of God and not just a collection of writings compiled by man? Does she recognize and respect the authority of the Bible? Does she believe that she can learn and understand the Bible? Does she understand that she has a responsibility to study the Bible? Do not allow her to become discouraged about Bible study just because Peter said, There are some things hard to understand which the untaught and unstable distort (2 Peter 3:16). For a beginner, understanding the Bible may be like algebra to a six-year old overpowering. Time and study will make the Bible be like algebra is ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-wisdom-outsiders.htm | Size: 11K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 40: | Are You Guilty of Spiritual Child Abuse? Are You Guilty of Spiritual Child Abuse? How would you feel toward a mother who regularly overlooked her newborn child's feeding time when the infants cry for milk fell upon indifferent ears? What feelings are aroused by knowing that a newborn child is fed only once every couple of days? We would view that mother as totally unfit. We might even report the mother for child abuse because of the neglect. Neglect: a form of child abuse Physical children Spiritual Children (new converts) Rely upon world's public school educational system to teach with no spiritual content Rely upon the church's Public education system to ground new converts. (regular sermons and classes) No weekly family devotionals No personal one-on one weekly follow-up Lose world to children New converts fall away Fewer qualified men for elders Slows growth and discourages church Are you guilty of child abuse? Should Social Services remove the new converts from your congregation? Are we guilty of neglect when it comes to ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-sp-child-abuse.htm | Size: 10K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
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