A group from one of José´s supporting churches is here, and they´ve been an inspiration. On Sunday we went to Zipaquirá to do street evangelism and pass out flyers to the new Baptist church that´s starting there. We went to the main plaza in the city and the group started singing. José preached a short five-minute message and we started to talk to people about Christ, using the Evangecube. Wow, people were really open and several people made professions of faith in Christ.
We did something similar but even better yesterday here in Chía. The team brought their huge Evangecube (www.e3resources.org), and they starting making free balloon animals for kids and painting faces. While the kids got their gifts, José preached the gospel using the huge Evangecube various times (I did it once). We estimate that 300 people heard the gospel in about 2 hours as we gave out 200 balloons and about 1,000 tracts. The amazing thing was how many people were interested in learning more. In fact one of the teachers in Lucas and Eliana´s daycare was really interested. We going to have her over to our house next week to share more with her.
My biggest regret: Why didn´t we do thing sooner? I would guess that at least two new people will come to church on Sunday because of our outreach. If we had done this every week, how many would have come to Christ by now? But no, instead we got wrapped up in church problems and missed many blessings. Oh well, in Cali!
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Last week we were in Girardot, Colombia (about 2 1/2 hours down the mountain) for the conference we have with all of the ABWE Spanish-speaking missionaries every four years. It was a great week. In my opinion the highlight was the Good Soil evangelism training that we received. ABWE has already published "The Way to Joy" discipleship book, which is for new Christians, and they are beta testing the "Story of Hope" evangelistic study. To access, go to CEIM Resources
I highly recommend these resources. The evangelistic study is especially good, as it covers the 40 most important events in the Bible so the person can capture the big picture, and also includes the Bridge to Life, which includes the six essential concepts someone needs to grasp to be saved (God, Man, Sin, Death, Christ, Cross, Faith, Life).
What really struck me is how I´ve often short-circuited the process of evangelism, skipping over key concepts or not explaining the story line of the Bible. In our culture here, you may get "decisiones" but the person may not have truly understood the message of hope.
The course was especially timely since I´m going to be teaching an evangelism course at church next week.