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Ideas For Evangelism - Way of Life Literature

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programs, such as Sunday School and Vacation BibleSchool. These are good places to start in evaluating andreworking a church's ministry. The pastor needs to askhimself how these can be made more fruitful.A Vacation Bible School, for example, can simply be apart <strong>of</strong> the church's traditional program, something that iscarried out without much enthusiasm and without muchfruit, or it can be a true soul winning endeavor that iscarried out with great zeal and potentially much fruit.I recall one particular church that has a Vacation BibleSchool each year, but little or nothing is done to advertiseit in the community, no special prayer proceeds it, noeffort is made to train and challenge the people to filltheir private automobiles with children and young peopleand adult visitors to bring them to the VBS, no thought isgiven to possibly running the church bus each day tobring people to the program, etc. All the pastor does isorganize the actual VBS activities and then put up a signin front <strong>of</strong> the church, apparently hoping that someunsaved people will show up.Another example <strong>of</strong> this is summer camp. Manychurches participate in these, and they can be veryfruitful if the church has the necessary vision and zeal.But again, too <strong>of</strong>ten the church invests a great deal <strong>of</strong>money and time into a summer camp with very littleattention given to making it evangelistically fruitful. Todo this, the church must seek out unsaved young peopleand make it possible for them to attend camp, even if thatmeans paying their way. The church must stop thinkingonly about its own young people, meaning the youngpeople who are members <strong>of</strong> the church, and have anoutward vision toward the needs <strong>of</strong> the vast number <strong>of</strong>178

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