Ideas For Evangelism - Way of Life Literature

that a physical baby would have trouble having a kidif it was only 5 or 6 years old. Our churches arecaught up in programs and promotion rather thansimply bringing the members of its local body to aspiritually mature point in which they are reproducingnaturally on their own. That is what any decentparent does with physical children. They bring themto a point of maturity so that they can go have afamily of their own. With spiritual babies running theshow, no wonder the church is in the apostatecondition that it is in today. Christians need to begrown into spiritual adulthood, so that theirreproduction in this world happens naturally. That isEXACTLY what our Lord and Savior did with 12 menwhile he was here. He came to seek and save thatwhich is lost, but invested his entire ministry into only12 men! There is a discipleship ministry that is beingstarted in our church that I think you ought to checkout. The local church that I am a part of didn’toriginate this ministry. It was revealed from thepages of scripture to a church in Kansas City,Missouri. Check out www.kcbt.org. This is afundamental Baptist church.”We received the following suggestion from EvangelistChuck Cofty:“I set this up in my last church and without anycoaching I might add. I used to go to the home of aperson that our church had won to the Lord andwould present them with a Christian Life NewTestament by Thomas Nelson (not to be confusedwith the Christian Workers New Testament). In thefront are a series of outlines, and I would take aperson with me who would actually be meeting withthe new convert once each week for one hour. Theywould start going through the outlines that coverevery basic doctrine of the Bible. Most often it wouldtake several months to get through the outlines,which would result in ‘contact’ with that new convertevery week. I would have the contact person call his/her new convert each week to see if they needed aride and to wait near the door to greet them eachweek in church. This was very successful for mychurch and at the end of the first year we had 87%