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Updated: April 2019

A Fresh Old Perspective on Evangelism & Witnessing. Prepared by Jack Kooyman. Updated: April 2019. Old or Familiar Western/U.S. Model New (Old) Model__________ Evangelism model = sales

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Updated: April 2019

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  1. A Fresh Old Perspective on Evangelism & Witnessing Prepared by Jack Kooyman Updated: April 2019

  2. Old or Familiar Western/U.S. Model New (Old) Model__________ Evangelism model = sales 🡪 Evangelism as more show than tell⬧ Sales Call/Closing the Deal 🡪 Conversations with Friends Conversion as Event 🡪 Conversion as Journey or Process⬧⬧ View people primarily as sinners 🡪 View people primarily as image bearers Formula/Script oriented 🡪 Relationship/interest oriented Agenda based relationships 🡪 Friendship based relationships Salvation = afterlife/individual 🡪 Salvation/New Life begins now; includes all of creation/culture (see John 3:16; Rom. 8:22-23) Saving /Rescuing /Winning 🡪 Inviting/Welcoming/Introducing Gospel as fire escape 🡪 Gospel as “Good News” of God’s Kingdom/Reign/Shalom

  3. People are In or Out 🡪 Moving toward or away from Jesus*** Witness only as individuals 🡪 Witness primarily as community ⬧ Share the “way of salvation” 🡪 Be aware of Holy Spirit provided opportunities in conversations with others. Proving; convincing; defending 🡪 Sharing transformation/grace stories Same starting point for everyone 🡪 Meet people where they are Believing before belonging 🡪 Belonging before believing⬧⬧

  4. Some Relevant New Testament Scripture Questions to consider and discuss after reading each of the following Scripture passages: • What does the passage teach us about how people come to know and follow Jesus • Which, if any, of the previous models are represented in the following passages? • Jesus and the Samaritan woman: John 4:7-30 • Jesus and the man blind from birth: John 9 1-11 / 24-38 • Jesus’ prayer for those who will follow him: John. 17:20-23 • Paul in Athens: Acts 17: 22-23 • Peter & Cornelius: Acts 10:1-48 • I Peter 3:15 (NIV)

  5. The Role & Work of the Holy Spirit “The Holy Spirit is always and everywhere the first and primary Witness. We are partners and collaborators with the Holy Spirit….[Our] first tasks…are learning to listen to God and collaborate with the Holy Spirit.” (p. 34 in Re-Imagining Evangelism, by Rick Richardson) Acts 1:8 “. . . you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnessesin Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

  6. Prayer & Witnessing • Pray for opportunities to have spiritual conversations. • Pay attention to Holy Spirit promptings/nudgings. • Ask and depend on the Holy Spirit to speak through you and to the heart of the person with whom you are having a conversation. • Pray for those with whom you have had “spiritual conversations.”

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