Ideas For Evangelism - Way of Life Literature

on any church members who are burdened to carry thegospel to lost souls. It is likely that they are alreadythinking about these things and have ideas. In fact, inmany cases it is certain burdened church members whoearnestly pray that the Lord will touch the pastor's heartthat he might wake up and lead the congregation inevangelism. In such cases, some of the church membersmight be far ahead of the pastor, and if so, they can be agreat help if the pastor is wise enough to use them.7. The pastor needs to stir up much prayer support for thechurch's evangelism efforts.Prayer is essential for spiritual revival, for removingdemonic barriers, and for breaking the stony hearts of theunsaved. There are many ways a pastor can lead in thematter of prayer. He can work to make the mid-weekprayer meeting more focused on evangelism. He can startnew prayer meetings, such as before the preachingservices, as Charles Spurgeon did. He can organizeprayer meetings in the homes of the church members. Hecan perhaps start an evangelism prayer chain. Manychurches have prayer chains for medical emergencies andother urgent requests. One member calls another memberwho calls another, and in this way the prayer request isquickly passed through the entire membership. Why nothave an evangelistic prayer chain, so that urgent prayerrequests about salvation are passed around the church?This type of thing helps focus the people's attention onevangelism.The Baptist churches in Ireland in the 17th centuryestablished a special time of prayer and fasting on thefirst Wednesday of every month for the purpose ofconfessing their spiritual slothfulness and backsliding180