The Soul-Winning Church (Paperback) by J A Medders and Doug Logan

Your church's sermons often include a call to evangelise. You've held evangelism training events. You give out invites to your Christmas and Easter services. So… where are all the new Christians? Is your church actually reaching the lost with the gospel?

For many of us, despite having the best intentions, our churches struggle to reach out with the gospel effectively. J.A. Medders and Dr. Doug Logan, Jr. have decades of experience in leading churches and mentoring pastors, and here they outline six principles for cultivating a genuine evangelistic culture throughout your church.

Includes case studies from a variety of different cultures and contexts to give you practical ideas for implementing these six principles.

Title

The Soul-Winning Church
Author(s)

J A Medders and Doug Logan
ISBN

9781802541151
Format

Paperback
Publisher

The Good Book Company
Topic

Church, Evangelism & MIssion
Audience

Church Leaders
Pages

176
Published

01/08/2024

J A Medders

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Doug Logan

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Overall rating

3.0 based on 1 review

You’ve (probably) read this before… but that’s OK

Another book about evangelism in the local church? Yup. And it’s fine. Is there anything groundbreaking in here? Nope. Anything that you won’t have heard a million times before if you’re in church ministry? Absolutely not. But what I did really like about it was both its clarity and its brevity. If you want to lead a church that sees people putting their faith in Jesus for the first time then you need to: - pray for it - make the consequences of the gospel for the church family clear - show practical love to your local community - be engaged in personal evangelism - preach for conversion - and be ready for converts My main takeaways from the book will be the gentle rebuke that we don’t specifically pray for a specific number of people to be saved, and that’s probably because we don’t believe it will really happen. I was also prompted to think about what the reputation is of my church in the local community. Is that a help or a hindrance. At the very end of the book, there’s a helpful little chart that allows you to rate your church against these six different factors in making your church successful to sharing Jesus meaningfully. I’ll use this book with my church leaders at some point. In ten years time will I still pick it up? Probably not. But right now, it’s a decent enough book about being an evangelistic church and that’s good enough.

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