Training Church Members For Personal Evangelism In A Secular Post-Christian Context

Gavin Perkins

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Training Church Members For Personal Evangelism In A Secular Post-Christian Context

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Gavin Perkins. Training Church Members For Personal Evangelism In A Secular Post-christian Context. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/1950e241-881f-4114-bd45-c571146d4c32.

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G. Perkins. Training Church Members For Personal Evangelism In A Secular Post-Christian Context. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/1950e241-881f-4114-bd45-c571146d4c32

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Gavin Perkins. Training Church Members For Personal Evangelism In A Secular Post-Christian Context. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/1950e241-881f-4114-bd45-c571146d4c32.

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The author’s chief goal in this project was to produce and pilot a useful and effective resource in training believers in personal evangelism. Although he conducted the field work during COVID-19 lockdowns and disruption that goal was substantially achieved. Biblical study, theological reflection, and sociological insights formed the foundation for the author’s development of the training course. That research shaped a congregational survey regarding attitudes to personal evangelism, which in turn fed into an expert sample of ministry leaders and evangelistic trainers. In the light of these inputs the author wrote and piloted a four-week evangelistic training course. Course participant responses enabled the author to make a preliminary assessment regarding the effectiveness of the training course. The author then suggested a trajectory along which he could develop the course, and supplement it with additional support and resources. He also mapped out a ministry plan for the construction of an evangelistic ecosystem within a local church, incorporating an adapted version of the piloted course alongside additional groups and further input. The needs identified in this project regarding evangelistic training were greater than could be met in a short four-week course, but the author identified sufficient reasons for confidence that, alongside further ministry inputs, such a course could play a vital part in shifting a church’s culture in a more evangelistic direction.

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