Comments on: http://writeaboutnowjt.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/513/ Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:21:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Adam Gonnerman http://writeaboutnowjt.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/513/#comment-345 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:58:00 +0000 http://writeaboutnow.christianstandard.com/2008/02/15/513/#comment-345 Those are encouraging stats, in many ways. While attending Harding I discovered that many in that part of the movement really have a “ready answer” and promptly offer a “Bible study” to people who mention a desire to know more about God. To my post-modern mind this seems like the entirely wrong approach…but gees it WORKED! On Spring break one semester I helped a Christian church with follow up on an outreach in Moberly, Missouri. We called people who had received a free CD of the Gospel of Mark (everyone in town in the phone book got one) to invite them to church. One woman (amidst many polite “okays” and a few angry “don’t ever call me agains”) warmly thanked me and said her family was looking for answers, something more in life. Immediately I offered to have someone from the church study with her, not realizing that they were completely unprepared for it to happen.

Somehow, folks in evangelical churches and in the independent Christian churches seem to think that evangelism should just sort of happen without any planning or preparation. It’s only made worse by our assumption that no one is interested in hearing.

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