PPT-EVANGELISM AND PERSECUTION

Acts 1417 SPEAKING A BELIEVALBE MESSAGE v1 1 Now at Iconium they entered together into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed RESPONDING TO OPPOSITION v27. Much of our information on the early church . and persecution comes from Eusebius . He wrote Ecclesiastical History. Eusebius was a close friend of Constantine (emperor) and got permission to collect and write about the first 300 years of Church history. AN EVANGELISM HANDBOOK. Acts . 1:8. “You shall be my witnesses…in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, even to the ends of the earth.”. AN EVANGELISM HANDBOOK. I Timothy 2: 3-4. “.  . This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, . Rev Dr Stephen Skuce. Director of Scholarship, Research and Innovation. skuces@methodistchurch.org.uk. ‘One Mission’. Britain – wherever: it’s the same . Eg. 2014 Report of the One Mission Working Party (3:2). invade. Enemy territory. Instead of waiting people to come, we go to the people with the message of Jesus Christ as the ONLY Savior.. WHAT AM I TO BRING?. Bible – preferably the Good News with the Imprimatur of the Cardinal. I. What is the current status of evangelism in the western church?. A. Most churches have reached their plateau or are . declining. .. . B. Most pastors do not focus on the area of evangelism as their . I. What are some of the main models for evangelism that have been put forth in the last few decades?. A. . Confrontational. Evangelism. 1. This is the more traditional approach to evangelism programs in the church.. The earliest church in mission and evangelism. The Church as God’s Instrument in Mission. The earliest church in mission and evangelism. The Dynamic Expansion of the Earliest Church. The Dynamic expansion of the earliest church. Evangelism Department. East Caribbean Conference of . SDA. Evangelist . Claudius Morgan. The priority of personal evangelism was molded by Jesus.. He did not delegate the work of winning souls to His disciples, while reserving the task of preaching to the multitudes.. Diocletian. Church enjoyed a relatively long period of peace after Decius and Valerian persecutions. Early in 4. th. century though, the last (Of the Roman Empire) and worst persecutions began to break out. SEC Strategic Framework. 2016- 2019. Evangelism Everyone Everywhere. The SEC President, Pastor Richard de . Lisser. , has outlined a vision for the next four years as: . EVANGELISM, EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE. ?. Nazi Policies towards the . Minorities. Who were the undesirables in Nazi Germany?. LO:. Outline who the Nazi’s targeted for persecution and . why. ?. Who did the Nazis persecute?. The Nazis believed that only Germans could be citizens and that non-Germans did not have any right to the rights of citizenship.. Wellington Branch. Talk 2 – . How to Share Your Personal Testimony and Person to Person Evangelism. Talk 1: What is Evangelism . and Why?. Evangelism is about introducing the person of Jesus Christ to another person. . Church of the Nazarene. Preparing for Persecution . Preparing for Persecution . The purpose of this module is to:. Prepare God’s people for persecution they will face as followers of Christ.. The objective for this module are:. Where We’ve Come From Week 1: Persecution in the Early Church, from the Apostles to Constantine Helpful Resources for Further Study Justo L. Gonzalez, The Story of Christianity , 2 volumes. Bruce Shelley,