evangelism: starting point (week one)

Evangelism: Starting Point (Week One)

By: Alfred Toole

Your system is perfectly designed to produce the results you are getting.

-Principle of Management

What excites, scares or frustrates you about Evangelism?

Belief Affects Action.

Our Christianity has to be more than these 4 walls.

Activity isn’t Evangelism.

A faith that…has no impact on life in the here and now, is nothing more than “consumer christianity” and “bumper sticker faith.”

--Dallas Willard

Everyone wants to be the Acts church, but not everyone wants to do what the Acts church did.

Matthew 28.18-20

What’s Our Pink Elephant?

Luke 6.39-40

Luke 14.25-33

Love-Lead-Grow

We, especially must ask ourselves whether in all honesty, the info we offer and the life we live is the same as that which entered the world with Jesus and that was able, through his students, to produce the historical church and the Christian form of civilization that grew up around it.

--Dallas Willard

Homework

• Pray: daily for 3 nonbelievers within your sphere of influence.

• Read: Colossians 4.2-6

• Do: something compelled by the love of Christ.

• Respond: the love of Christ compels me (2 Corinthians 5.11-21).