Hit the flocks2/18/2023 Evangelical faux-research houses like Barna Group release nonstop shoddy surveys - like this one from 2019 and this “ outreach initiative” thing from 2013 (don’t miss p. I’ve written off and on over the years about how preposterously difficult it’s been for evangelical leaders to get their flocks to evangelize even a little sometimes. The key is to get the others to join them. The minority, the 10 percent, will remain devoted to personal evangelism, he said. That sounds good, but as the state evangelism director in Arizona, I know that 90 percent of our people don’t do it. “We’re told that we’re equipped and to go get ‘em. “A lot of our evangelism attempts take place in isolation,” Pearson said. This problem has plagued evangelical leaders for years. And he wants more Southern Baptists to go and do likewise.īut that’s way easier said than done. It sounds like he was born in the saddle. Patterson has the requisite background in evangelism that SBC leaders like to see. Because someone might have gone their whole lives in Kentucky without some fundagelical trying even once to recruit them into an authoritarian church group. In that link, Patterson said this simulcast formed part of his initiative to “reach each of the 1,728,681 homes in the commonwealth with the gospel of Jesus.” Yes. I also see that in January 2021, Patterson held some kind of seven-site simulcast evangelism event. What an incredible privilege to be at the front lines of evangelism, leading a team devoted to encouraging and equipping Kentucky Baptists to keep sharing the greatest news ever!” “As my wife, Jenny, and I were praying over the opportunity we found ourselves laughing with incredulous joy. In the middle of all that, Rob Patterson swept into the job. But it also existed a solid year after the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) itself had been rocked by its sex-abuse megascandal. It shone brightly at the very end of the Before Times. Just imagine what a world January 2020 was. Evangelists sell one product only: active, dues-paying membership in their particular flavor of Christianity.) Everyone, Meet Evangelism Team Leader Rob Patterson.īack in January 2020, the Kentucky Baptist Convention hired Rob Patterson to be its Evangelism Team Leader. The product evangelists sell is not their beliefs and it’s definitely not their god. (I use a sales paradigm to describe evangelism. Button, button, who’s got the evangelism button? ( Moises de Paula.) Credit: Moises de Paula / Unsplash In his words, churches just need to ‘reset’ evangelism! See how easy that is? Today, let’s see what this evangelism reset involves. It involves a bright-eyed evangelical guy who’s convinced that he’s finally figured out how to get the flocks out into the selling fields. Hi and welcome back! Not long ago, I ran across this opinion piece about evangelism.
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