Four Evangelistic Methodologies

As mentioned, there is a direct correlation between the four evangelistic methodologies. For the culmination of revival meeting, other three vehicles: decisional preaching, personal evangelism, and Sunday School progressively create an evangelistic atmosphere. Kelley’s concern for successful revival meeting shows the correlation as follows: To assess the evangelistic potential of revival meetings for your church, consider whether or not a revival would be a natural culmination of other evangelistic processes you have in place. Are lost and unchurched people being regularly exposed to the gospel and the difference Jesus can make in their lives? Is the atmosphere of a typical worship service decisional? Do people who attend expect to be confronted
Is there a premise of naturalness and cooperation? Yes, there is. Maintaining regenerate church membership brings both. If a church fails to keep regenerate membership, there is no naturalness and cooperation, or one or more of the other three methodologies are broken. Unfortunately, a research shows significant numbers of unregenerate members in Southern Baptist churches. According to the survey, thirty-one percent of responders are not Christians, fifty-five percent of people are Christians, and the remaining fourteen percent of responders are not sure to be categorized into either. Such a result of unregenerate church membership should be understood seriously in regard to evangelism. This is because naturalness and cooperation, a premise of the correlation between the evangelistic methodologies, cannot be expected as unregenerate church members become dominate in a church. In this case, all linkages among the four evangelistic approaches become weak or disappear and only individual approaches that can survive without the naturalness and cooperation is available. Thus, revival meeting, which was regarded as a culminating harvest, is not thought as same manner any more. Meanwhile, the remaining methodologies like decisional preaching, personal evangelism, and Sunday School do not make a synergetic product in evangelistic ministry any more. Therefore, the restoration of a pure membership rate is urgent for powerful