Ideas For Evangelism - Way of Life Literature

and emphasize the work of the gospel. There arecountless ways to do this: Mentioning it often during themessages, having regular training sessions, bringing inspecial speakers, requiring that church workers beinvolved in evangelism, etc.A pastor must also remember that he sends messages tothe congregation not only by his speech but also by hisactions. If he says he is concerned about evangelism andwants the people to be involved but he isn’t involved, orif he promotes members of the congregation as workersand leaders who care nothing for evangelism, his actionswill say more than his words.I recall a pastor who had allowed the evangelismprogram to die in his church because of lack of interestby the people. After a year or so, he announced to thechurch that he was deeply concerned about the situationand was convicted that he had not done right to stop theorganized visitation program. For several services he toldthe people that the visitation would start again and thathe wanted large participation. In several sermons hepreached boldly that it is wrong for deacons and SundaySchool teachers or choir members, etc., never to sharethe gospel and visit the unsaved. He had meetings withhis deacons and Sunday School teachers and told themthat he wanted all of them to participate in the visitation.After a few weeks of this he re-started the visitationprogram on a Thursday night. Only a handful of peopleshowed up. If I remember correctly, there were nodeacons or Sunday School teachers there. After a fewweeks of this, with little or no noticeable increase in thenumber of church members who came out for visitation,he let the subject drop. He kept up the visitation program