Podcast Episode #183

We discuss a recent post by Chuck Lawless on why we don't evangelize as well as ways to encourage evangelism in your church.

Some highlights from today's episode include:

* We have an evangelism tragedy that is taking place in our churches.

* Continue to do ministry and missions, but let it be explicitly about the gospel—not just meeting physical needs.

* Many mission trips have become tourist trips for many church members.

* We unfortunately have a lot of church members in America who are practical universalists, syncretists, and inclusivists.

* If it comes down to losing our job or being an obedient Christian, we should always choose the latter.

* Fear cannot be our reason for not evangelizing.

* Find me an evangelistic church and you will find an evangelistic pastor.

* I will never buy the argument that we have enough churches in a community.

The nine reasons Christians don't evangelize are:

* Many don’t know what “evangelism” is.

* We have few evangelistic role models.

* Some church members aren’t convinced about lostness.

* Some churches have provided no evangelism training.

* Fear of the unknown halts our efforts.

* We’ve “gotten over” our salvation.

* Pastors aren’t taking the lead in evangelism.

* We don’t really know many lost people anyway.

* We don’t care about non-believers.

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Resources

* Breakout Churches

* The Unchurched Next Door