Outward Focused: Equipped for Outreach

Steve Sjogren: Notes on "Equipped for Outreach"

Most evangelism programs are "linear" - trying to win an argument. Evangelism is about creating an 'atmosphere'. An atmosphere of Love - enabling the Holy Spirit to work in peoples lives.

Create a Buzz in your city! - Read Seth Godin's All Marketers Are Liars...

If we give away love, we (church) become associated with what we DO, not by what we say, write, or where our building is.

The best way to figure out how to love people, is to talk to the people God has given you. It's how you figure out what type of outreach might work.

Practice!

DO outreach for several months. (doing it willy-nilly does not work)

We should be all about Acts 10:38 - doing good to all kinds of people!

We should be about acceptance, and not approval (we accept - God approves)

People were accepted by Christ - yet, Jesus did not approve all of them.

We are all in Process!

We can accept people, even if they don't change. The rest is between them and God.

We can't put a dealine on our love - we have to love continually - not just for a set amount of time, then give up.

We should love until God gives up on loving.


Steve Sjogren is the founding Pastor of Vineyard Community Church in Cincinnati, and loves servant evangelism.

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