Outreach

Train Your Church to Evangelize

Ed Stetzer broke the news to Southern Baptists recently that the Southern Baptist Convention is contracting faster than the United Methodist Church. Baptisms have fallen in 8 of the last 10 years. Membership is down, average weekly attendance is down, and the SBC is spiraling faster and faster away from the Great Commission activity that …

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Personalized Ministry: Outreach

In The Trellis and The Vine, authors Colin Marshall and Tony Payne advocate for a renewed approach to ministry that focuses on ministry to individuals as well as to the group. This personalized, one-on-one approach to ministry is not new, it’s as old as Christianity itself, and has found many advocates through the years of …

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