Ideas For Evangelism - Way of Life Literature

PrefaceThe following report is the fruit of our effort to collectideas for evangelism. They have been gleaned frommany sources, including our own missionary and churchexperiences that go back more than 40 years. We havespent 20 years in church planting in South Asia.We havealso ministered on bus routes, in jails, taught SundaySchool classes, witnessed on military bases anduniversity campuses, in nursing homes, and in manyother situations.We have also had the privilege of corresponding withhundreds of people on this subject.It is so easy for churches to get “stuck in a rut” with theirgospel outreach. For some reason, the New Evangelicaland Charismatic crowds often appear to have moreresourcefulness and vision than Bible-believingfundamental Baptists do. Of course, I realize that muchof their evangelistic work is operated contrary to theteaching of Scripture. They are willing to use carnalmeans such as rock music, and they are not “hindered”by having to preach unpopular things such as repentanceand separation. But the fact remains that it is largely theNew Evangelical and charismatic and emerging crowdsthat are busy on the public school and college campuses,who are going head to head with the secular humanists,who are reaching into every part of the communities,from the poor to the rich, who are in the city ghettos, andwho are targeting the unevangelized “people groups.”It is always helpful to get a fresh vision, but we do notneed to go to the “church growth” gurus such as BillHybels and Rick Warren to learn how to use carnal,