Door to Door: August 11, 2007

Today was a great day of evangelism; Renee, Amy O'Ferrall, and I went out for two hours knocking on doors. We went to the neighborhood directly behind the church and had a great time sharing the Gospel with those who God allowed us to talk with. It was an honor to be out today bringing glory to the Father as we were faithfully to sow the seed of Gospel.

We knocked on quite a few doors today; we got rejected, we knock on numerous doors with no one home, and we were fortunate to talk with about six people about eternity.

As I was walking from house to house and made several trips to go get the car I had lots of time to think. I thought about what the needs were going to be in the future as we continue to maintain this door to door evangelism ministry. I was doing some research on door to door evangelism before going out and one of the suggestions that are given is to offer the people in which you are talking with some free yard work, painting, or other handyman work around their house. The information that I read stated that most people won't take you up on the offer but before you offer any type of service/outreach you need to have a team ready and in place to do these things if the need arises. Needless to say we didn't offer any of these services but I thought in the future we should. I began to think about the army and some of the different types of units that comprise it. You have armor and infantry which are on the frontlines in the heat of the battle, you have artillery which provides fire support for the armor and infantry, you have the engineers who build things or clear the way for the frontline soldiers, and you have forward support which provide things like vehicle maintenance, food, fuel, bullets, etc.

With these thoughts in mind I began thinking about what we would need to make this evangelism ministry more effective. We certainly need to enlist more frontline soldiers; I am trusting God that He is raising up laborers; this is our infantry. If we are going to offer outreach types of services we need an outreach team(s), ready to go, to provide what ever it is these people may need or request; I equate these to engineers. We need people committed to pray for the evangelism team every time we go out; this is our artillery. We also need support so that we can have gospel tracts, Bibles, door hangers, water, babysitters who volunteer their time; those who help out in this area are our forward support. People can help by donating time, water, finances, etc.

This is not something I see coming together overnight but as we are faithful to God's calling we can create a fighting force that works together to reach out to the community around our church and the communities in which we live to see lives changed and transformed by the power of God for His glory as we work together to see the church and our communities break forth in revival.