Imagine: you’re sitting in your office. The previous night, your church just put on an incredible event. The church decided that every event it holds will be evangelistic, and it is excited about that. You’ve never had more church members volunteering for an event. You’ve put time, money, and manpower into pulling it off. The church intended to evangelize the lost. You did the training on how to evangelize using your church-wide evangelistic method, and the communication abou

During a Sunday evening service, I asked the members of Range Hills Baptist Church what made it difficult for them to evangelize. One young lady, who’s still in High School, said that her difficulty was having time to evangelize. She told a story of attempting to share the gospel in the hallway with a fellow student when they both had to go to different classes; the conversation ended there. The adults then spoke of a similar problem in their workplaces. In attempting to lead

At Range Hills, I often say, “Evangelism is easy.” That’s because it is. At some point in Christian history, Christians began to believe that evangelism was difficult and complicated. “Professional-based” evangelism, in which only pastors, a certain “class” of Christians, or missionaries are capable of evangelizing, became the norm because of this misconception. Compounding this issue, well-meaning, evangelism-loving people created trainings to help people evangelize. Many of

After reading the first two articles on church-based evangelism, I hope that I have convinced you that this approach to evangelism is biblical. I hope that you have seen the need for an approach to evangelism that requires and expects the entire church to take its Great Commission responsibility seriously. I also hope that, if you are a local church pastor, you have seen the necessity of taking the lead as the pastor-missionary. Yet, I fear that many stop here. In attempting