Thinking About Evangelism

on April 16th, 2010

The fact that one of the chapters in my upcoming book discusses the topic of evangelism, and having just spent half a day with Greg Steir at our annual junior high Summit really has me thinking A LOT about the topic lately.  Here are some things that have been bouncing around in my head:

-  How do we continue to create a sense of evangelistic urgency in our students?

- Why have we (by “we” I mean most of the youth workers I have talked to, including myself) seemingly completely abandoned a more traditional proclamation of the gospel in so much of our methodology?

- How are we  equipping our students to share their faith, be salt and light, live missionally etc.?

I have other thoughts, but those are the big ones I have been writing about, talking about with others and thinking about.

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markeades at 9:38am April 19

here is something that has been in my head on this subject :

- most of our middle school kids are scared to share their faith because they fear regetion from their friends – how do we work through that with our kids?

- our kids see their parents and other church adults not sharing their faith with others – so why should they?

Ana Lucia at 12:21pm April 23

I’ve been thinking a lot about this, too. Actually, on May 2nd we will talk about evangelism for our junior highers. Maybe they are afraid of beeing rejected by their peers if they talk about Jesus. But I think the best way is to make they think about their own faith and comitment to Jesus. If they really think about it and the diference it makes in their own lives it will be easier for them to talk.

Matthew Sloop at 7:35pm April 23

This has been on my heart as well, what I find is also difficult is that their is not a lot of materials for students to share their faith in all of these new media outlets. This is the focus of what we have been praying about and working on. Thanks for sharing your passion and heart.