6 Ways Churches Sabotage Evangelism

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6 Ways Churches Sabotage Evangelism All too often churches engage in practices that undermine their efforts to truly evangelize the lost. This lesson examines some of those counterproductive practices and points us back to relying on the power of God’s word.

6 Ways Churches Sabotage Evangelism Expecting “the preacher” to do it all (Acts 8:4; Phil. 4:3; 1 Thess. 1:8; Col. 4:5-6) Focusing on meeting physical needs instead of spiritual ones (John 6:26-27) Tolerating hypocrites (Romans 2:1, 22-24; 12:2, 9; 1 Corinthians 5:1-2) Entertaining worship (2 Timothy 3:4) Buying tolerance & selling truth (Prov. 23:23) Making numerical growth the prime goal (Acts 2:38-47; Matthew 7:13-14; 1 Cor. 1:21, 26)

“The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground, and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how. For the earth yields crops by itself…” (Mark 4:26-28)