Missional Preaching: Mobilizing Local Church Congregants for Personal Outreach Through Sermons

James Botts

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Missional Preaching: Mobilizing Local Church Congregants for Personal Outreach Through Sermons

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James Botts. Missional Preaching: Mobilizing Local Church Congregants for Personal Outreach Through Sermons. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/20509106-6a33-40da-897b-82ffc4254c42?locale=de.

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J. Botts. Missional Preaching: Mobilizing Local Church Congregants for Personal Outreach Through Sermons. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/20509106-6a33-40da-897b-82ffc4254c42?locale=de

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James Botts. Missional Preaching: Mobilizing Local Church Congregants for Personal Outreach Through Sermons. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/20509106-6a33-40da-897b-82ffc4254c42?locale=de.

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James Botts

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This study argues that congregational preaching, when intentionally designed around simple and repeatable missional practices, can function as a formative and mobilizing catalyst that moves believers from passive participation to active engagement in personal gospel outreach within the rhythms of everyday life. The project employed a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design within Vaughn Forest Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where everyday personal outreach had declined despite consistent participation in gathered church life. A six-week sermon series titled You Were Blessed to BLESS served as the central intervention, focusing on five relational outreach practices. Data were collected through pre- and post-series surveys measuring beliefs, motivations, and behaviors, followed by ten semi-structured interviews that explored how participants interpreted and practiced these changes within their everyday relationships. The findings demonstrate that preaching corresponded with measurable motivational shifts and emerging missional activation. Participants reported increased awareness of everyday relationships as opportunities for spiritual influence, a strengthened sense of personal responsibility for outreach, and a notable rise in confidence initiating spiritual conversations. These internal shifts corresponded with observable engagement, particularly in practices of prayer and service, while other practices developed more incrementally. Participants consistently described moving from passive agreement to intentional participation, engaging others through relational, everyday interactions rather than programmatic efforts. The study concludes that sustained, memorable, and practice-oriented preaching can cultivate progressive engagement in God's mission by aligning belief, motivation, and action. Rather than producing immediate or dramatic transformation, missional preaching forms believers over time who increasingly participate in God's redemptive work through the ordinary relationships of daily life.

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