Transforming Migrants to Missionaries: Reaching and Training Inner-City Transient Apartment Dwellers for Christ

Wilbert  C Baker

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Transforming Migrants to Missionaries: Reaching and Training Inner-City Transient Apartment Dwellers for Christ

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Wilbert C Baker. Transforming Migrants to Missionaries: Reaching and Training Inner-city Transient Apartment Dwellers for Christ. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/3b087182-39b1-4c40-b862-91c8b928bd2d.

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W. C. Baker. Transforming Migrants to Missionaries: Reaching and Training Inner-City Transient Apartment Dwellers for Christ. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/3b087182-39b1-4c40-b862-91c8b928bd2d

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Wilbert C Baker. Transforming Migrants to Missionaries: Reaching and Training Inner-City Transient Apartment Dwellers for Christ. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/3b087182-39b1-4c40-b862-91c8b928bd2d.

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Wilbert C Baker

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Evangelism--Strategy

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Abstract

Chapter 1 of this dissertation project argues that using a disciple-making method that has relationship-building as a key ingredient in the process is more effective in reaching African-American inner-city apartment residents than door-to-door evangelism using tracts. This study is a comparison of how evangelism is typically done among Baptist churches (and most Evangelical churches) with how it should be done to fulfill the Great Commission.Chapter 2 argues that both God and man have roles in evangelism, and that God’s sovereignty does not exempt man from his responsibility and accountability to God in receiving and sharing the gift of salvation.Chapter 3 examines segments of evangelism and missions from a historical perspective and records insights for contemporary ministry from a historical and theological perspective.Chapter 4 Describes the new people Group: African-American inner-city transient apartment residents. It describes their culture, world view, and their self-image.Chapter 5 conducts research in the selected environment with selected indigenous individuals to collect and analyze data to discover the most effective means to reach inner-city African-American apartment residents with the Gospel.Chapter 6 argues the conclusion, based upon the findings of the research accumulated from the two trained teams and the six selected families, that evangelism which engages in disciple-making after leading persons to Christ, is twice as effective as evangelism models that lead persons to Christ but do not include any follow-up and training. The disciple-making model is effective in this context and can be duplicated in the twenty-first century. This study does not compare evangelism without disciple making with evangelism with disciple making. This study compares what the majority of Baptist churches are doing to fulfill the Great Commission with what they should be doing to fulfill the Great Commission with particular attention given to the African-American inner-city transient apartment dwellers.

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