How the church grown

A. Psalm 1:2b King David speaking of God’s people said “in His law he doeth meditate day and night”. In other words, God’s laws are never far from our thoughts.

II “Back to Basics”

A. Training or Teaching “How-To” (or Ways-To). Unless we work at bringing the sinner to someone who will teach them, they will be forever lost.

B. Friendship Evangelism, Jesus fed 4,000 men after teaching them (Mark 8:9)

C. “Evangelism isn’t complete until the evangelized becomes the evangelist”. Every Christian is expected to be an evangelist (Eph) 3:10.

III Tools We Can Use

A. Tracts- Gospel Minutes- Brotherhood Papers- Bulletin articles- Jule Miller Visualized Bible studies- Correspondence Courses and the list goes on

1 Where is a good place to leave materials?

a Any place people gather- senior citizen centers

b Anywhere the public has to sit and wait – bus station- airport

c Offices buildings - doctors or lawyer offices – businesses

IV We Must be Christ, and His church Oriented.

A. Who should do the work?

V The dead can’t, the unborn can’t. so “we must be about our fathers business”. Mission Work is Hard Work

A. Eph. 3:10 applies to each of us. The Spanish have a saying; mañana (tomorrow) is soon enough. Tomorrow may be to late for some. people.

As long as there is life in my body, I must “tell the story of Jesus

A. We must plan our work and work our plan, both Planning & Working are necessary.

B. The urgency is TODAY. “now is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation”.

1. “I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.” (John 9:4)

C. Constancy, day and night Matt. 6:33 it’s all about putting seek “the kingdom first” in my life

1 Pray for open doors “a door was opened for me “ (1Cor. 16:9, 2Cor.2:12)

2 Pray that God will “open your eyes” to see those doors (Matt. 7:7) we must ask, seek, and knock to find people who want to learn.

3 Songs that teach us: True Hearted- I Want to be a Worker- Throw Out the Lifeline- Sowing the Seed

D. Not all people know the Book . . . but all Christians know Jesus.

1 When teaching someone, remember to (KEEP IT SIMPLE)

2 You have something everyone needs and you can show them the way

3 Who will do the work? The dead can’t. The unborn can’t, the living must.

E. Things we Must have to be effective in evangelism. It’s all about attitude.

1 A Can-Do- Spirit. A positive attitude and the Lord on our side will do
the job.

2 A Want-To Spirit The desire to see the lost saved. A love like the Father and Jesus had to see all men saved. John 3:16; 2 Pet. 3:9

3 A Will-Do Spirit. The determination to do what you can where you are. No greater task has been given man than to “be about our Fathers business”.