Ideas For Evangelism - Way of Life Literature

eternal security and believe that all is well. Ourchurches, in such cases, are usually powerless anddo nothing but fuss over things that do not amount toa hill of beans. Since we are not experiencing God’sblessings, we are tempted to find still ‘better andnewer methods’ so we can stay ‘competitive’ withchurches that are growing in number, for whateverreason.“In my opinion we are reaping what we have sownfor a number of years with our foot in the door, bowyour head and repeat this prayer, evangelism. Manyhave then resorted to ‘promotional evangelism’which seems to have cheapened the power of thegospel to a worldly carnival atmosphere. Many of ushave tried to sow the seed, water the seed, and reapthe harvest in a matter of 15 minutes. How oftenhave we been guilty of baptizing lost people justbecause they bowed their head and parroted aprayer. How many of the problem people in ourchurches today are there because we recruited themand baptized them and got them on the roll asmembers ourselves?“I think if we really expect God’s blessing, we don’tneed ‘new methods,’ we need to get back to somebiblical methods. IN MY OPINION WE NEED TOFORGET THE WORD ‘SUCCESS’ AND JUST BECONSUMED WITH DOING GOD’S WILL. Being amissionary in a cold, hard, and mostly spirituallydead country like Germany soon made me realizethat the success and bigness mentality will do littlemore than discourage you and send you packing insearch of ‘greener pastures,’ which is usuallyartificial turf. Biblical success is simply doing whatGod has ordained in His Word. Most people wouldsay that we are total failures for we have been inGermany for 12 years and have a church of about80 people, some of which were in the church whenwe took it over. Something that I had to learn quicklyin a spiritually cold country like Germany, is that wecan only sow and water, but God has to give theincrease. We have tried our best not to get involvedwith the number or success mentality but to simplytry to be faithful in doing the biblical work of theministry. I am sure that there are many of ourbrethren who have not made the same mistakes in