EVANGELISM FOR THE NINETIES
A Leadership Forum
January 1, 1990
Ever since being given the Great Commission, the church has made evangelism a priority. Peter preached to street crowds; Paul reasoned with philosophers; Barnabas cozied up to the synagogue crowd of the Diaspora. Carey went to India, and Moody started a Sunday school, and Bright devised four laws. The methods have been as diverse as the personalities, but in every age, God's people have spread God's story.
The coming of a new decade occasions a look at what is happening in evangelism in this age. What's working? What's not? How can the gospel penetrate the decade of compact disks and cocooning?
To investigate this subject, the LEADERSHIP editors brought together three pastors and an evangelist who have considered these questions in their ministries and have devised effective means to carry out the Great Commission:
-Ed Dobson, pastor of Calvary Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and former associate of Jerry Falwell in Lynchburg, Virginia;
-Les Magee, a former missionary to Portugal and Brazil, who now pastors Washington Heights Baptist Church in Ogden, Utah;
-Larry Moyer, executive director of EvanTell, Inc., a Dallas-based evangelistic organization; and
-Raleigh Washington, a career military man converted as an adult, who now serves as pastor of Rock of Our Salvation Evangelical Free Church in Chicago.
Leadership: When you began ministry, what was the most common way to evangelize the lost?
Les Magee: I recall two methods. The first was street meetings. Our youth group would go out on a street corner and sing and share our faith with little thought to effectiveness or relating to people.
A completely different method was practiced in our family. When my parents became Christians, they began to reach out to people in their family ...
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