This evangelism is revival-based with emotional pressure for a decision. 2. This method is not as effective now as it once was because there is a greater ideological distance between Christians and non-Christians B. Most evangelism training is decision-oriented 1. There is aggressive sharing of the gospel with pressure to make a decision to active membership in the church, and. to obedient service in the world. There is a four fold invitation described in this definition: Calling people to. to repentance. to personal faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. to active membership in the church. to obedient service in the world. to the social dimension of evangelism and mission during the Evangelical Revivals of the 18th. And 19th. Centuries. However, at the end of the 19th Century there was a loss of involvement by evangelicals in social issues because of a fear that "the social gospel" was undermining evangelism. , WDA in our online store.) To be eective, our training in evangelism must follow a similar, transferable pattern. Certainly a successful evangelism encounter can occur randomly and spontaneously. But the most eective forms of training in evangelism occur when there is planning and forethought. It is the responsibility of the leader to Evangelism Handbook: Conversion Process 1 THE CONVERSION PROCESS Coming out the world and becoming a fruitful Christian is a process in which there are many steps. Occasionally, a method of evangelism is developed that centers on the steps of salvation and does not give proper consideration to the changes that must take place One Message in Evangelism "Evangelism" is proclaiming God's "evangel" or "gospel." This message or "Word" is empowered by God to create saving faith in people to believe his gospel, turn from sin and follow Jesus. The word "gospel" means "good news." "evangelism." The late Dr Lewis Drummond, past President of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary wrote: "A proper theology of evangelism… will result in a profound zeal to win the lost."1 In the preface we saw how gospel proclamation in the West through personal evangelism had all but ceased. I attribute much of this decline Evangelism is rooted in the Greek word euaggelion, meaning good news. Historically, "to evangelize," meant to announce the Good News. Now, we use evangelism as a catchall term for the entire field of study, research and the process of spreading the gospel. We can't hope to thoroughly explore the present state of evangelism in this A Study on Evangelism Core Group Study Guide By the Chi Alpha Staff at UVa This study is a study on Evangelism - We will focus on the "What", "Why", and "How" of Evangelism. Many of the ideas come from Out of the Salt Shaker and into the World by Pippet and Becoming a Contagious Christian by Bill Hybels. Both are highly E vangelicalism is one of the largest and most dynamic forms of Christianity in the modern world, but there is an amorphous quality to many words that end with the suffix "-ism," and A Theology of Evangelism By: Robert E. Coleman Toward the close of World War II, I was at an ROTC summer training camp near Mineral Wells, Texas. One gloomy day a newspaper courier came through our company area and cried out: "Good news! We're winning the war." Before long the whole camp was alive with excited conversation about the news. A Theology of Evangelism By: Robert E. Coleman Toward the close of World War II, I was at an ROTC summer trai