Evangelism

Introduction/ History Remembering one’s history is important in creating a productive and successful future. The Met does just that. During the early 1900s, the founding fathers of the Met experienced financial difficulties. These struggles helped orchestrate a new vision and inspired them to create an innovative PATH (prayer, attendance, tithes and offerings, and hospitable invitation), which continues today with nearly 1,100 members. The Metropolitan Baptist Church was established in 1917…

He immediately makes this known in the first paragraph of Chapter 1 where he states, “Spiritual formation is the task of the church. Period. … Spiritual formation is at the heart of its whole purpose for existence.(15)” Wilhoit then goes on to provide the reader with a definition of Spiritual formation, “Christian spiritual formation refers to the intentional communal process of growing in our relationship with God and becoming conformed to Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit (26)”,…

contrast to the decline in religious fervor was the Methodist revival led by George Whitfield and John Wesley. By 1754 the Particular Baptists had yet to embrace the revival movement largely due to their high view of God’s sovereignty and belief that evangelism represented an assault against that sovereignty. These high-Calvinists created a theological system that went well beyond the five-point Calvinism. The need to preach the gospel to unregenerate sinners was minimized in favor of a…

The author of The Life You’ve Always Wanted: The Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People is John Ortberg. Zondervan published it in 2002. Ortberg encourages a deeper relationship with the Lord that affects our entire being. God’s power can bring transformation to our lives in a great way. The thirteen chapters of this book examines the how and why of transformation. This book is about spiritual growth. In the first part of the book, Ortberg made a case against just living for eternity. He…

Marketing –Decision Making. It’s a dream of every business to reach to unlimited customers. Customers who will be a profit making pillar of the business. This dream takes about 75% of planning time. But it all lies within the scope of “marketing”. Marketing, in its simple, definitive form, is setting strategies that will aid in reaching to potential customers to increase profitability. It becomes so difficult to make decisions that will influence marketing in whichever business one is involved…

suffering and the hard work we have done will vanish only to be in the memories to a few. Life is so fleeting but death is permanent. This though has brought a lot of people to religion because they are promised a life after death. When I was part of my evangelism team, I remember they would always tell me to emphasise that those who do not believe will burn in hell and suffer for all eternity but those who accept the gift and the spirit of God will live forever in happiness. This is exactly…

What is the Church? This is a question that could be answered in various ways depending on who you ask. Some people treat the church as a building that is attended once a week for fellowship and worship, and some view the church as body of believers working together to proclaim the Gospel. The church is much more than just a building. Essentially, the church’s purpose is to fulfill God’s ultimate purpose here on earth. The church is designed to glorify Christ by spreading the Gospel to the…

The true gospel, for all who are saved, it is the epitome of graciousness and joy in our lives. For those who are lost in darkness, a false gospel they have chosen blinds their eyes. And this where biblical counseling and the true gospel intersect. When a person chooses a gospel to believe in, he or she is choosing to define what he or she sees as needs, how those needs will be met in their life and the way in which he or she can go about having those needs met. This is called confessional…

some areas of the charismatic church, in the name-it-claim-it theology and other prosperity-gospel variants. Materialism has also infected the church, and this has caused spiritual stagnation. There is also a postmillennial view that advocates that evangelism and missions are not needed due to the “Christianization” of many parts of the glove. We see counseling therapies, how-to books and self-help books that “guarantee” success in Christian living. Lastly, there is the myth that graduates from…

I-Irresistible grace says that if you are among the chosen or elect of God, you cannot refuse God’s salvation; your will has nothing to do with your salvation. You will be unable to resist God’s grace. P-Perseverance of the saints means that elect cannot lose their salvation. Once you are saved- which, if you are among the elect, will take place-cannot slip away; you will persevere in your faith until the Day of Judgement. If you do slip away from God, it is likely that you were not really one…