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Local elders and other lay leaders often have to preach a sermon or even preach quite often in some congregations. This series of five units on preaching brings together the experience of pastors who...
Public evangelism is often the only way we think of evangelism. There is also the evangelism that occurs in the privacy of one-to-one relationships and small circles in the home. Ellen White writes,...
If following Jesus can be compared to a race, how does one go about starting the race? Where do you sign up? How do you register? Where do you get your numbers? Jesus prescribes an initiation rite for...
When it comes time to start talking to others about a potential Mission Group—announcing a call to mission—it is very important to have the key message points well in mind.
Collaboration is vital to the development and effectiveness of your missional project. Without collaboration you will not get people from the target group to come into your project, you will not have...
Once your Mission Group has begun to implement some initial projects, the next major task is to begin to study the culture and needs of the people you are attempting to minister with. This is not...
The emphasis of church outreach of all kinds has been “come to church” or “come to the meetings.” That is the focus of all of our efforts and the basic message to the general public. That approach...
Once a Mission Group has developed its covenant and identified the gifts of its members, assigning each of them a definite role in the enterprise, it is then ready to launch out into its new mission....
The spiritual foundation of a Mission Group is expressed in its “covenant.” This is a document which states the mission of the group and then outlines the basic operating rules of the group. These...
An informal visit to someone’s home, once or other appropriate place are probably the oldest and most universal of all social interactions. In our busy, contemporary world, however, it has lost most...
Disappointments. Unfulfilled expectations. Unwelcome surprises. Very often they result from unrealistic expectations and vague hopes. Sometime they hit us broadside, when we should have seen them...
Why do we need to learn to listen? We’ve been hearing since before we left our mother’s womb, and we haven’t stopped yet, in this noisy world of ours. Well, for one thing, “hearing” and “listening”...
Trust is built through compassion. Winning the confidence of others cannot be forced or manipulated, but it is built through non-manipulative, caring love. It often happens in everyday little things....
Let’s begin by defining friendship evangelism. Most people become Christians and join the church because of a friend, a relative or someone they know. In the late 1970s, Dr. Gottfried Oosterwal,...
Showing compassion to those around you is the second step in friendship evangelism. A simple but powerful demonstration of compassion is through the act of listening. The paradigm in The Ministry of...
The third step in sharing your faith with others is to minister to their needs. Ministry springs from a heart touched by God’s unconditional love expressed in service toward the practical needs of...
The paradigm we are using is found in The Ministry of Healing on page 143. It describes the approach used by Christ and includes five verbs. The first one is introduced in these terms; “The Savior...
Sharing the gospel best happens in an open, trusting relationship, using language relevant to the context and needs of the person with whom you are sharing. In the paradigm for the ministry of Christ...
Many people grow up with a fairly defined view of life: Do good and you go to heaven, do bad and you go to hell. So the basic human problem is trying to do good and trying to not do bad. Your outcome...
