Workshop #2: Simple & Transferable Evangelism

Start with simple and transferable models of evangelism for Key Volunteers and their disciples.

Evangelism is generally most powerful when it comes from someone who knows you and loves you. This model is effective because it focuses on sharing the gospel with friends, family and existing networks of relationships (Acts 10:24, 16:31-33). Those within a relationship network who come to Christ form the nucleus of new groups of disciples (1 Cor. 16:19, Rom. 16:15) that are able to lead and feed themselves.

Our desire is to see rapid multiplication. However, staff by nature are ‘outsiders’ and because of this, must first seek to build a bridge of trust with students. One of the challenges staff face is that we often put ourselves in the center of the movement by creating large and complex bridges to the gospel through events, which can slow down the process of rapid multiplication.

Though large-group events are great bridges to the gospel that attempt to overcome the ‘trust gap’, they require a lot of resources, time, training and management to pull off that students don’t have.

Since students are already ‘insiders’ they have a smaller bridge to build to the gospel. The key is to mobilize these students to share the gospel within their network where they already have established trust.

New believers will have an even smaller bridge to build within their natural relationship network (oikos – family, friends, peers).  Simply by sharing their testimony they are able to build a powerful bridge sufficient to prepare their network to hear the gospel. Once they go beyond their natural network, they may need a few simple tools/training (i.e. Connect skills) as a bridge to the gospel, but they do not need to use the same large bridge to connect and build trust that staff need as outsiders.

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Next we’ll see how having four generations of spiritual multiplication can help a movement be sustained and multiply.