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My friend Brian Mowrey writes:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my\u00a0last post<\/a>, I mentioned we (Jubilee Church St Louis<\/a>) have spent more<\/strong> money on evangelism in the past, yet were less effective<\/strong> at reaching the lost and adding them into our community than we are now. The main reason why that\u2019s true is because we focused most of our energy on DOING evangelism<\/strong> versus BEING an evangelistic community . . .<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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When you\u2019re focused on doing evangelism, the goal is to get people to act out certain behaviors or to do activities<\/strong> (passing out tracks, prayer walks, street evangelism, etc), while being an evangelistic community is about living out an identity that goes well beyond the activity itself.<\/strong> You can teach people to evangelize and they can go out and do it, but never know the heart behind evangelism<\/strong> . . .<\/p>\n

An evangelistic community is one that is built around the mission of Jesus to seek and save sinners (Luke 19:10<\/a>). . .\u00a0a key component is being a community that is built to attract and welcome in sinners<\/strong>. When part of the identity of the entire church is to be a place that welcomes sinners amongst them,<\/strong> that becomes a very powerful witness and very attractive to those who do not yet believe. You become the kind of church that NATURALLY<\/strong> attracts sinners versus one that almost needs to pretend<\/strong> to attract sinners.\u201d<\/p>\n

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More at\u00a0Building an Evangelistic Community <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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