Ideas For Evangelism - Way of Life Literature

An Unshakeable Faith includes an extensive practicalsection on the use of apologetics in evangelism whichcan be used as a soul winning course.A Library of Evangelism-Related MaterialsA good aid in the church’s work of evangelism and in thepastor’s task of training the flock for this work is to builda library of materials related to soul winning. These arethings such as a wide variety of gospel pamphletsdevoted to various approaches and themes, materials onhow to do evangelism, materials exposing the error ofcults and false religions and various heresies that arecommonly encountered, etc.Fasting and PrayerOne of the reasons evangelistic outreaches are oftenbarren is the lack of earnest prayer and spiritual burdenthat accompanies the effort.Christians, left to themselves, easily lose their eternal andspiritual focus. This is often evident in the nature of theprayer requests that are mentioned during prayermeetings. The requests focus on various material thingsand neglect the more important eternal matters. As theleader of the congregation, it is the pastor’s job to keepthe church’s focus on the salvation of the unsaved. Prayermeetings should be oriented in this direction. It is not thatthe Lord does not care about our physical needs and it isnot that we should not pray for these things, but ourpriority in prayer should be the spiritual and the eternal.We see this in the prayers that are recorded in the NewTestament. The church members need to be continually