Archive for October, 2009

One of the largest evangelistic opportunities in America October 23, 2009 | Written by Stephanie Harrison

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Today one of the largest evangelistic opportunities in America exists in pregnancy centers.  There are 1.8 million opportunities to share Christ with women facing crisis pregnancies in the coming year through the pregnancy center movement. And men, if you’re tempted to stop reading, many of those women bring their significant other who usually just waits in the waiting room or parking lot. Imagine how willing these people are to talk about spiritual things.

In this month’s Christianity Today, Melinda Delahoyde (President of Care Net, North America’s largest Christian network of pregnancy centers) tells the story of “Rachael” and one of their volunteers sharing the “love and story of Jesus Christ” with her. +Continue Reading

Paper’s cold, you make it warm October 15, 2009 | Written by Larry Moyer

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Had you asked me when I graduated from seminary how many will you meet who will come to Christ through a tract, I would have said none.  Since then, I’ve met so many people who came to Christ through reading a tract I hand them out every opportunity.  I try to never be without one.  Due to the approachability of people in 2009, usually two tracts.  When people are turned off by tracts, it is not usually the presentation, it’s the presenter.  Shared in a cold and callous fashion, they can do harm.  But shared in the right way, they can be an instrument God uses to bring them to Christ.  After all, God wrote the first tract – the Gospel of John.  John 20:31 tells us “But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life
in His name.”

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