{"id":71286,"date":"2024-02-05T23:10:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T05:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=71286"},"modified":"2024-02-05T23:25:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T05:25:34","slug":"evangelism-across-economic-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=71286","title":{"rendered":"Evangelism Across Economic Boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Let\u2019s be honest. When churches talk about \u201creaching out across socio-economic boundaries,\u201d they are talking about middle class (and higher) people reaching out to poorer folks. You don\u2019t see many run-down churches in economically depressed areas starting outreach programs for Volvo-driving soccer moms who live in housing developments with names like \u201cThe Pines at Oakbrooke Gables.\u201d I don\u2019t know, maybe they should.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">In any case, a lot of churches find the socio-economic barrier to be the most difficult one to overcome in their evangelism. Ethnic barriers, by contrast, are more obvious, and mature congregations will sensitively work to ensure they don\u2019t create division in the church. But so-called \u201cclass\u201d differences can be subtler. People from different socio-economic backgrounds might look the same and speak the same language but still have a very differen<span data-contrast=\"none\">t<span data-contrast=\"none\"> experience of daily life.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p aria-level=\"3\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">A Few Lessons<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Here are a few things that I\u2019ve learned from leading a church that is trying to reach out to folks from different backgrounds.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p aria-level=\"4\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">1. We\u2019re Not All That Different<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">First, we\u2019re not all that different. It can be intimidating to try and build relationships<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few things one pastor has learned from leading a church that is trying to reach out to folks from different backgrounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":332,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[321],"class_list":["post-71286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-evangelism-gospel","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71288,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71286\/revisions\/71288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}