Ideas For Evangelism - Way of Life Literature

in a low-key manner, but he did very little to push it andhe stopped rebuking the people for their lack ofparticipation.In fact, even though most of the men refused to come outon visitation, he let them start up a new inter-churchsoftball league for Saturday evenings just a few weeksafter starting the new visitation program. Lots of peoplewho showed zero interest in evangelism gotenthusiastically involved in this new scheme.Through all of this the people received a loud message:the pastor will preach about some things that might makeyou uncomfortable once in a while, but you don’t have totake it seriously. If you simply ignore him he willeventually let it slide and things will get back to normal.The people are in charge in that church, and they knowjust what to do to manipulate the pastor.This reminds me of how crucial it is to have highstandards for church workers. An “ordinary” churchmember cannot necessarily be forced to participate invisitation or to dress properly during the week or toseparate from worldly music or such things, but a churchcan certainly require that its workers be examples ofwhat God requires of His people. The workers set thetone for the whole congregation. They set the tone forwhat new converts will eventually become. If the pastordoes not require that the workers be examples of what hepreaches from the Word of God, he is undercutting thepreaching. We have seen this scenario repeated time andtime again across the country.