Guidelines Evangelism: Share the Good News
By Cokesbury
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Evangelism is vital to the disciple-making process because it is a primary ministry of sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ. Evangelism is more than just one individual talking about faith; it is a ministry of the whole church that develops a church “lifestyle” of welcome, invitation, and support. This Guideline is designed to help equip you in leading this ministry group in your congregation.
This is one of the twenty-six Guidelines for Leading Your Congregation 2017-2020 that cover church leadership areas including Church Council and Small Membership Church; the administrative areas of Finance and Trustees; and ministry areas focused on nurture, outreach, and witness including Worship, Evangelism, Stewardship, Christian Education, age-level ministries, Communications, and more.
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Blessed to Be a Blessing
If you are reading this Guideline, you have said yes to servant leadership in your church. You are blessed to be a blessing. What does that mean?
By virtue of our baptism by water and the Spirit, God calls all Christians to faithful discipleship, to grow to maturity in faith (see Ephesians 4). The United Methodist Church expresses that call in our shared mission to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world
(The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church, or the Discipline, ¶120). Each local congregation and community of faith lives out that call in response to its own context—the wonderful and unique combination of God-given human and material resources with the needs of the community, within and beyond the congregation.
The work of servant leaders—your work—is to open a way for God to work through you and the resources available to you in a particular ministry area, for you are about God’s work. As stewards of the mysteries of God (see 1 Corinthians 4:1), servant leaders are entrusted with the precious and vital task of managing and using God’s gifts in the ongoing work of transformation.
In The United Methodist Church, we envision transformation occurring through a cycle of discipleship (see theDiscipline, ¶122). With God’s help and guidance, we
•reach out and receive people into the body of Christ,
•help people relate to Christ through their unique gifts and circumstances,
•nurture and strengthen people in their relationships with God and with others,
•send transformed people out into the world to lead transformed and transforming lives,
•continue to reach out, relate, nurture, and send disciples . . .
Every ministry area and group, from finance to missions, engages in all aspects of this cycle. This Guideline will help you see how that is true for the ministry area or group you now lead. When you begin to consider all of the work you do as ministry to fulfill God’s mission through your congregation, each task, report, and conversation becomes a step toward transforming the world into the kingdom of God.
Invite Christ into the process to