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Preaching & Evangelism

The Service of the Church

The Church has a responsibility towards every single person in the world - not only toward the believers. Three groups of people in the world. Active Believers, Lost Sheep (who are believers but are lost) and the Non-believers. The Church service can be classified into three ministries:

  1. Ministry of Spiritual Care (Active Members)
    • Preventative: How to prevent them from being lost
    • Nurturing: How to nurture them to grow into spiritual maturity
  2. Ministry of the Lost Sheep
    • Outreach: Searching for the Lost Sheep
    • Healing: The Lost Sheep who returns will be full of wounds - how to accept him and prepare a godly and therapeutic atmosphere to promote his healing
  3. Ministry of Evangelism (Non-Believers)
    • Preaching the Gospel
      • Apologetics (Defending)
    • Grafting (Catechism)
Preaching & Evangelism

Greek εὐαγγέλιον = Gospel = Good News (eu = good, angelion = message (like angelos = messenger))

Evangelism refers to the preaching or spreading of the Gospel - good news.

What is the Gospel?

  • See “Spread the Word” (Michael Keiser) first Chapter

What is Evangelism?

  1. Evangelism is a Commandment
  2. Evangelism is Love
  3. Evangelism is the Greatest Mission

(See “The Harvest is Plentiful”)

"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." (Matthew 28:19-20)

"But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” (Acts 1:8)

St John Chrysostom - "There is nothing colder than a Christian who does not try to save others."

The Evangelist
  1. Who is the Evangelist
  2. Spiritual Growth
How to Evangelize
  1. Actions
  2. Words
    1. See the examples in “The Harvest is Plentiful”

Resources

  • Fr Tadros Yacoub Malaty
    • Evangelism and the School of Alexandria
    • Preaching in the Post-Apostolic Era
    • Evangelism: 1 Corinthians
    • Evangelism: 2 Corinthians
  • Michael Keiser
    • Spread the Word
  • Fr Daoud Lamei
    • The Harvest is Plentiful
  • When you fast
    • Page 29
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