Jenn Sands writes:
As part of the evangelism paper that I am doing this semester through Bible College of New Zealand, a recent assignment was to look at the Antioch church in Acts 11 and what it modelled for us, as a church that God uses in evangelism. I had to reflect on how well, or not, my Opawa church was doing. Here is what I wrote:
Open to outreach - in my church I can see two of the three aspects of outreach, modelled in the Antioch church, happening. Each year recently there has been teaching, either through sermons or small group courses, on evangelism, where people have been shown conversational evangelism, Biblical pictures of witness, process versus event evangelism, etc. There is a monthly missionary focus as part of the morning service and also people in overseas and home mission who are supported financially and prayerfully by my church.
I was really encouraged by what I discovered as I spent time looking behind the scenes and reflecting on the current practices of Opawa and its vision for growth. There are lots of good things happening and God is at work in the life of our church. I also had to assess myself personally using this criteria of Open to outreach. It was a challenge to me and so I'd like to challenge you to reflect on how you personally are involved in helping Opawa Baptist be a church that God uses in spreading the Gospel message.
Posted by opawa at April 27, 2008 02:19 PM