The Everyday Club Report for March: Days Amiss
My friend “Righteous” Richard bemoaned a sad occurence that happened on Friday: Well, I missed doing something evangelistic on Friday. And I didn’t realize it until watching the evening news. In the Los Angeles area, there is a liquor store called “Blue Bird Liquor” that has had several past lotto winners; they even have photos
ATHEIST TUESDAY & The Everyday Club Report for April: Is Evangelism Effective?
An atheist asked: How effective are your actions at bringing the lost closer to Jesus?
If by “effective” you mean: Do I actually see lots of conversions with people becoming Christians and attending church, becoming missionaries, feeding the homeless, visiting prisoners and adopting babies?
No.
My church, Hope Chapel, has handed out over three million Gospel tracts and has graduated close to a thousand evangelism trainees. I, personally, have had hundreds, if not thousands of one-to-one conversations with individuals, and have preached the Gospel in the open air hundreds of times to thousands of people since making a commitment to share my faith everyday on January 1, 2004.
The result? I don’t know. I would say, at best, we’ve had a hundred visitors— maybe more, probably less—as a result of our evangelism efforts. If I measured our effectiveness by what I see then I’d say that we are doing dismally, miserably—and we ought to give up. Because, after all, what’s the point?
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