Ideas For Evangelism - Way of Life Literature

Using the Home for EvangelismThe house church movement can be a challenge tochurches to encourage their families to be evangelistic byusing the home to reach the unsaved.One point that is frequently made in house churchwritings is that the unsaved are often more willing toattend a relaxed gathering in a home setting than toattend a church service.“People who would never think to step inside atraditional church will accept an invitation for a mealin your home, a picnic at a park or coffee at acafe” (Kreider and McClung, Starting a HouseChurch, Kindle location 902).This is true, and it is an important truth, but you don’tneed a “house church” to do evangelism in homes; yousimply need families in churches that are willing to opentheir homes for evangelism.Churches should encourage their families to do this bytrying to meet their neighbors and to make contacts withthe unsaved by other means and then invite them to thehome to share the gospel with them.The following testimony describes the things a familycan accomplish when the husband and wife determine todedicate their home both to holiness and to Christ’s GreatCommission. This testimony teaches us that you don’thave to be emerging in philosophy and you don’t have tobe a “rock & roll Christian” to “think outside the box” abit.Before we married, my husband and I decided wewould never have a TV in our home. We stuck bythis until our oldest children neared their teen years.127