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LAY EVANGELISM. Six Gathering Strategies. Viral Evangelism LAY EVANGELISM Community Penetration Sneak Previews Small Groups Marketing. QUESTION. How will you mobilize your core group to evangelism?. Linebacker Video!. Interaction. How were you trained in evangelism?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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LAY EVANGELISMLAY EVANGELISM
Six Gathering StrategiesSix Gathering Strategies
1. Viral Evangelism
2. LAY EVANGELISM
3. Community Penetration
4. Sneak Previews
5. Small Groups
6. Marketing
QUESTIONQUESTION
• How will you mobilize your core group to evangelism?
Linebacker Video!Linebacker Video!
InteractionInteraction
• How were you trained in evangelism?
Networking Is Big!Networking Is Big!
Ninety percent of new converts come through networking!
Imagine This!Imagine This!
• What if you could mobilize your entire core group to virally share the gospel using their social networks?
D0 the Evangelism MathD0 the Evangelism Math
Planter: 25 Prospects
+
Core: 25 Prospects
50 People/Week
• That is major gathering!
Early ChurchEarly ChurchHow did they grow?
Acts 1:8 CommissionActs 1:8 Commission
1. Jerusalem
2. Judea
3. Samaria
4. Ends of Earth
World
Judea
Jerusalem
Jerusalem CircleJerusalem Circle
– Acts 2:41- 3,000– Acts 2:47- Added daily– Acts 3:1- Awe, Amazement– Acts 4:4- 5,000 men– Acts 5:14- More & more– Acts 6:1- Number increasing– Acts 6:7- Many priests
Acts 1-7: Good Growth
Acts 8:1 ProblemActs 8:1 Problem
• STILL IN FIRST CIRCLE!• Seventeen years later
• Jerusalem church had become a closed network.
World
Judea
Jerusalem
Major Networking ProblemMajor Networking Problem
• As powerful as network evangelism is, every network has built in natural boundaries that work against the viral spread of the gospel.
Natural ClosureNatural Closure
• Most people have 40-50 people in their network.
• Pastors: 75-120• Introverts: 20-30
• Exception: POP– Person of Peace– Know everybody
Stark: Closed NetworksStark: Closed Networks
• Most new religious movements fail because they quickly become closed or semi closed networks. That is, they fail to keep forming and sustaining attachments to outsiders and thereby lose the capacity to grow.
Rapid ClosureRapid Closure
• Small groups: Six months• Churches: 70 people• Core groups: Four-Five
months
Exponential GrowthExponential Growth
• Successful movements discover techniques for remaining open networks. And herein lies the capacity of movements to sustain exponential rates of growth over a long period of time.
Open NetworksOpen NetworksHow do you keep networks open?
Early ChurchEarly Church
• Acts 8:1 (NIV) 1 On that day a great persecution broke out against the church at Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.
Mobilized LaymenMobilized Laymen
1. Phillip: Samaria (8:5)
2. Paul: Damascus (9:19)
3. Cornelius: (10-11)
4. Barnabas: Antioch (11:22)
Hinge passage: 11:19-21– Unknown planters 11:20
World
Judea
Jerusalem
Jumped NetworksJumped Networks
Brutally HonestBrutally Honest
• Every time a new network was opened, there was a major battle.
– Acts 6: Hellenistic vs. Hebrew widows– Acts 8: Jerusalem vs. Samaria– Acts 8:26- Samaria vs. Africa (Ethiopian)– Acts 10-11: Jew (clean) vs. Gentile (unclean)– Acts 13: Antioch vs. Asia Minor– Acts 15: Circumcision vs. Uncircumcision– Acts 16: Asia Minor vs. Europe (Macedonian)
Push-Pull TensionPush-Pull Tension
GOD’S SPIRIT
GOD’S PEOPLE
Push-Pull ApplicationPush-Pull Application
• First battle: Yourself– To spend necessary time to prospect & network
• Second battle: Your Core Group– One of your major battles will be to fight to
keep your core group open and continually build new relationships with new people, outsiders, and new networks.
Battle TipsBattle TipsHow other planters have mobilized
their core groups.
1. Model Yourself1. Model Yourself
• If you don’t, your people wouldn’t!
• Tell your stories• Tell your successes
Tell your failures
2. Teach Networking2. Teach Networking
• If networking is a big deal, then your #1 task is to teach your core group how to share their faith using their pre-existing social networks.
Think NetworksThink Networks
• You need to look beyond the individual to his/her social network.
• Teacher: School Network• Fireman: Rescue Network• Hunter: Outdoor Network• Divorced: Single Parent
Think 3-4th GenerationThink 3-4th Generation
• II Timothy 2:21. Paul
2. Timothy
3. Faithful men
4. Others
• Who do you know?• Who do they know?• Who do their friends know?
3. Spiritual Dynamics3. Spiritual Dynamics
• Jesus Christ: He’s Alive (Acts 1:3)
• Holy Spirit: He’s Available (Acts 2: 38-39)
• Pray For Divine Appointments
4. Personal Testimony4. Personal Testimony
• Nothing more powerful.
• Simple format
• Acts 26– BC: Before Christ– How– AC: After Christ
5. Gospel Presentation5. Gospel Presentation
• Clear Presentation– Laymen’s greatest fear
• YFC: 3 Stories• CC: 4 Laws• BG: Steps• Navigators: Bridge• Roman Road• Planter: Stepping across
the line
6. Spiritual Gift6. Spiritual Gift
• Evangelist Gift: 10%
• Every gift also spiritual responsibility
• Do work of evangelist: II Timothy 4:5
7. Evangelism Styles7. Evangelism Styles
1. Direct: Peter (Acts 2)
2. Intellectual: Paul (Acts 17)
3. Testimonial: Blind man (John 9)
4. Interpersonal: Matthew (Luke 5)
5. Invitational: Samaritan (John 4)
6. Service: Tabitha (Acts 9:36)
8. Evangelism: Process8. Evangelism: Process
• Baby Steps!
9. Receptivity9. Receptivity
• Mt. 13: Four soils• Who most receptive?
PassagesTouch pointsFertile on fringes
10. Celebrate Wins10. Celebrate Wins
• Converts: Roses– Create Culture
• Prayer goals
• Leadership accountability
BenchmarkBenchmark
• Low: 40%• Medium: 60%• High: 80%
Lay Evangelism PlanLay Evangelism Plan
• How will you mobilize your core group to evangelism?
The EndThe End
Parable of Orange TreeParable of Orange Tree
• I dreamed I drove on a lonely road, straight and empty. On either side were groves of oranges trees; row after row stretching back from the road with boughs heavy with the round, yellow fruit. It was harvest time. …
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