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In planting new churches, one of the keys to success isfor the preacher(s) to spend many hours a week in soulwinning endeavors. God blesses this zeal with churchgrowth. It is not uncommon, though, for preachers whostart out spending a lot of time in personal evangelism togrow increasingly lax in this matter as the years pass.A Biblical Goal of Evangelism Is EssentialWe must understand that the goal of a church’sevangelism ministry is not to produce big numbers ofprofessions, but to preach the gospel to as many peopleas possible and to baptize and disciple the converts thatGod gives. The goal is to make disciples, not obtain mereprofessions.The goal of a church in every endeavor is to be faithful toGod’s Word. We are not free to use just any type ofevangelistic promotion or methodology to get a crowd.Everything must conform to the Word of God. Forexample, promotions that turn the holy house of God intoa carnival are wrong. Can you imagine turning the OldTestament Temple of God into a promotional circus, withthe high priest swallowing goldfish to attract a crowd!Promotions that encourage shallow, emotional decisionsare wrong. Worldly things such as rock music cannot beused to lead people to a holy God. A wise man observed,“What you win them with you win them to.”The following letter from a missionary to Germanyspeaks to the matter of having the proper biblical goal inour evangelism and not being pressured into the “bigchurch equals success” mentality:“I and my wife are missionaries in Germany. We aresent out by the Emmanuel Baptist Church in
Morgantown, WV., which the Lord used us to plantbefore coming to try the same in Germany. Our workhere is somewhat unusual in that we have Germans,Russians, and Gypsies making up the congregation.We have been in Germany for 12 years and it seemsthe church is getting to the place where it may beable to go on without us in the not too distant future.“Having to adjust somewhat to another culture(really three cultures) we have tried to constantlyemphasize that we are not here to establish anAmerican church, or a Russian church, or a Gypsychurch, or even a German church (all of which wouldlove to see it done ‘their way.’) I have tried constantlyto stress the need for a ‘Bible church.’ This hascaused me to reexamine all my philosophy ofministry in light of Scripture, for if I do anything that Icannot back with Scripture, they will let me know thatI am trying to ‘Americanize’ them. There are sometraditional ‘Baptist practices’ that I had to reexaminein light of the Word of God and pitch overboard. Notthat they are bad practices, but they are justtraditions and not necessarily found in the Bible.“Our church is by no means a large church and I donot profess to have found anything new, but I feelthere are biblical means and methods ofevangelizing that God does bless. I do feel ifanyone is looking for something that produces‘great numbers’ they are setting themselves upfor a fall. In fact, I believe that mentality has hurtour Independent Baptist Churches more thananything else in this generation. Many of us (ofcourse there are no doubt many exceptions) wereschooled in the ‘super church’ philosophy of doing‘something great’ for God. I was led to believe that ifI followed certain methods and philosophies ofministry that God would bless and build a greatchurch. I think many of us were and maybe still areconsumed with ‘doing something big’ and after awhile if God doesn’t seem to be adding as quickly aswe think He should, we tend to resort to our ‘modernmethods.’ As I see it, many have been so consumedwith achieving ‘great goals’ that must be attained ifwe are to be ‘successful’ we have permitted theenemy to dupe us into filling our churches with manylost people who have been taught the doctrine of
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Visitation ProgramMiscellaneousAn o
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only with the pastor. This is commo
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homebound or nursing home residents
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Another advantage is that while the
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“We use Computer Assisted Marketi
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Pass It On DiscipleshipThe ONE YEAR
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the Second Coming of Christ, Heaven
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Call them “Basic Christianity Bib
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Bible-believing churches can advert
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interested ones aside and instructe
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have not heard. “Firm Foundations
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November I found a sound KJB preach
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AdvertisingPeople need to know that
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meetings can be announced via newsp
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Gospel TractsGospel tracts and pamp
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tract to show people that their goo
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2. Remember that by giving out the
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this means in our missionary work.
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Doctor’s officesCopy machinesNews
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Gospel Sermon CDsThe following is f
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Metropolitan also conducts a Sunday
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semester for dinner at your church.
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ImmigrantsWhen people from other pa
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ChildrenWe plan to include more abo
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arm wrestle, or shove someone into
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understand these clear goals. I rec
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Baptist Church in Troy, Missouri, a
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We were aiming toward the revival m
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eproduce itself and to bear fruit f
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Friendship Evangelism“Friendship
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mocks the dangers that are inherent
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Using the Home for EvangelismThe ho
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those which would warn against evil
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our children in this, the first bei
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activities, nor the love that exist
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Jonathan Wells (who has a Ph.D. in
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Icons of EvolutionIcons of Creation
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order your course. There is a woefu
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the evolution of the whale. The Rod
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mutations); but new genetic informa
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turn the genes on and off; it has t
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RAGING WATERS, narrated by David Ai
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Invite the people on the list to go
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goodies from our health style baker
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Church PapersMany churches send out
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her number on the back of the tract
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in particular, are eager to try out
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many responses we have received bac
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membership to evangelize by going o
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Most of it was paid for by unsolici
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missionary to help churches establi
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window of our building. We have tho
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As with any gospel effort, the meth
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Preaching in Trailer ParksI receive
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that churches or individuals can us
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Reviving a Church That IsLukewarm T
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Another way is by demonstrating bef
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unsaved children and young people w
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and seeking the power of God (Josep
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“I would suggest you consider cam
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little or no noticeable increase in
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What’s Wrong with Most SoulWinnin
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ack into the house, severely distra
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7. The typical soul-winning program
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their sins and that faith in Christ
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epent, ye shall all likewise perish
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After the very brief presentation u
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they can get some sort of cheap tic
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God absolutely first in his life. T
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Many people in America today are as
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to come unto the knowledge of the t
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done repeatedly through the sacrame
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5. THE TYPICAL SOUL-WINNING PROGRAM
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The same thing can be seen in Paul
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this man. And I pray you will help
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even when they have indicated that
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one of you do show the same diligen
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epentance toward God and proper fai
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There is not one example in the New
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have prayed a prayer and have been
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