Ideas For Evangelism - Way of Life Literature

calling. I would do this long before I would think aboutsupporting a youth director or a music director.Encourage the ExhortersA ministry that was practiced in some churches in pastcenturies but has gone out of common usage is that of theexhorter.These are church members that have a special ability andburden to exhort visitors about salvation. They areindividuals who are alert to the Lord’s direction and whospeak privately with unsaved visitors and try to followupon the preaching. Romans 12:8 and Hebrews 3:13 hintat such a ministry, both toward the unsaved and thesaved.We find an example of this in the membership of CharlesSpurgeon’s Metropolitan Tabernacle. Spurgeon spoke ofsome who “made it their special work to ‘watch forsouls’ in our great congregation, and to seek to bring toimmediate decision those who appeared to be impressedunder the preaching of the Word.” Spurgeon describedone of these as follows:“One brother has earned for himself the title of myhunting dog, for he is always ready to pick up thewounded birds. One Monday night, at the prayermeeting, he was sitting near me on the platform; allat once I missed him, and presently I saw him rightat the other end of the building. After the meeting, Iasked why he went off so suddenly, and he said thatthe gas just shone on the face of a woman in thecongregation, and she looked so sad that he walkedround, and sat near her, in readiness to speak to herabout the Saviour after the service” (C.H. Spurgeon,The Full Harvest, p. 76).