Most pastors I know start a church plant with a deep desire to do evangelism. In one sense, what else would you do? Hardly any new pastor sets out to start a church by \u201csheep stealing.\u201d They want a vibrant, cross-focused, Jesus-centered church that hums with gospel witness and is filled with excited new believers.<\/p>\n
And they\u2019ll get right on it after they figure out how to set up a sound system in a high school gym, and puzzle out where the nursery is going to be held in the hotel, and deal with setting up the web page.<\/p>\n
Though most pastors see evangelism as a key to spiritual health for the life of a believer and the life of the church, given the astonishing number of things that must be done for a new church plant\u2014not to mention the internal sinful resistance to evangelism\u2014it\u2019s easy to lose our fervor in evangelism. Evangelism, it seems, is always pushing the ball uphill.<\/p>\n
If evangelism is to be woven into the fabric of the life of a new church plant and its pastor, it takes some thought and planning.<\/p>\n
Here are ten things I\u2019ve learned that may help.<\/p>\n
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