1. Epidemic Evangelism: Creating a Firestorm of new-Found Faith
James R. Burns
Texas Tech University

2. The problem 6.2 billion people on the planet
Nearly 50% have never heard of Christ
50 generations, 20 centuries—never fulfilled the Great Commission, ever
Half the people who have ever lived are alive today
Population doubles every 20 years
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3. 10/40 window 3.2 billion people live there
95% of them have never heard about Christ in a way that would enable them to consider His claims
200,000 people die in this window every day, most without Christ
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4. The Vision for the Great Commission
Diluted
Lacking focus
Lacking believe-ability
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5. Reviving the vision
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6. Eroding Goals
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7. Success to the Successful
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8. The Model
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10. What would it take to achieve the picture above?
10,000 startup evangelists
.2 conversion probability (goes down as the percentage of Christian believers goes up)
.005 recruitment rate from the body of latent Christians
Evangelists remain so for 2.5 years
During this time, they share the gospel 9 times annually
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11. What else would it take?
New believers are recruited into the body of evangelists at a rate of 100%
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21. That’s our calling: Mark 16:15
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