Rick Warren had a great podcast a couple weeks ago titled, The Importance of Evangelism for Church Growth. It was a great listen. He and Pastor Ed Young Jr. talk about how they do evangelism. Lots of great practical stuff. My favorite quote:
When you grow a church by transfer growth you are not really growing, you’re just swelling… Jesus said, “I’ll make you fishers of men” and what we’ve been is swappers of fish from one aquarium to aquarium.
I see lots of church planters start their church with an amazing evangelistic zeal and desire to reach lost people… then it fades. They get bogged down in “maintaining the machine” and “feeding the flock.” Plan now, before you launch, to keep evangelism a key focus of the new church. Put teams and processes in place to force yourself to stay true to the reason you are planting the church in the first place.
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