Evangelism methods

Connections List
 * Evangelism
 * Missionary
 * Missionary org
 * Wartime lifestyle
 * Types of people
 * Track Salvation Imagery
 * Discipleship
 * Cultural adaptation
 * Friend
 * Imitate/conduct God

Scope
 * Evangelism methods

Topics
 * Larger strategy movements
 * Church evang
 * Individual evang
 * Philosophies in individual mechanics
 * Good signs, emo approach
 * Suggested competency

Systems Strategy/tactics
 * Disciples multiplying disciples
 * Church planting movements (mother-daughter-...gens)
 * Attack the leaders first
 * Go to the dark places - be persecutied, be witnesses
 * Priority on unreached people groups. Rom 15:20, 3 John 5-8, 2 Cor 10:14-16
 * Saturation mechanics
 * Orgs vs. individuals (fishermen use nets, not single lines :))
 * Goer/sender ratio. Give this report to churches so they can push either way?

Church evang
 * Balance of modality and sodality (church vs. missions org)
 * Modality does the sending (acts 13:1-3)
 * Become all things to all people ("become like", Gal 4:12)
 * Local leaders
 * Humanitarian vs. evang, do not push evang, kingdom is core>manifest
 * Find a person of peace (sending of the 72)
 * Evang to those who are ready (e.g. Zaccheus, Century college, )

Individual evang - consider making each of these a separate page Philosophies in conversation
 * Public speaking - Acts 2. If conversions go to rels w/e.a. then ok.
 * Tracks - street and door to door
 * Friendship, social circles. 1 Thess 2:8 "...delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well." might not be good argument since dual w/gospel and potentially to ppl already Christian.
 * Media
 * Civic centers, speak in marketplaces
 * In the family
 * Saying crazy things
 * Argumentation, miracles
 * Example, life
 * 1 Thess 4:12
 * see "Discipleship" examples subsection
 * 1 Tim 3 above reproach (use as evang is implied)
 * 1 Tim 2 pray for leaders >> all quiet lives >> god wants all to be saved. Fx is unclear
 * 1 Peter 3:1 wives win over husbands by action. Also 1 Pet 2:12
 * Rational argument, removal of barries - mostly intellectual. Pauls arguments.
 * Stir the pot, make them doubt. Dim attacks. Ask wierd questions like JC. Acts 4:14 they can't respond.
 * Be bold, outright, some may get angry. Piss off the pharisees.
 * Scare tactics (I don't think this is good), pointing out sin, etc
 * Friendship, ameoba inflience model, in which God is the invincible infinitely-faced ameoba element
 * Isaiah ch 40-55, suffering servant

Good signs (reminds me of Is believing in God Delusional?), 1 Thess 1:5, 2:1-7. Related to church planting too. Bad signs are opposites of good signs More good signs Neutral signs
 * Miracles
 * Results - conversions, and deep ones
 * Persecution
 * Not out of error
 * Not out of impure motives
 * Not to trick
 * To please God
 * Not please men
 * Not use flattery
 * Not greedy
 * Humble, not overly exercising authority
 * Sharing lives
 * Provide for self (or external supporters) rather than ask for money
 * Blends in with culture as much as possible. 1 Cor 10:19-23, Hudson Taylor
 * To seek heavenly rewards 1 Cor 10:23-25
 * Do not treat people as objects (ref case of Barboa Srnova)
 * Heavy opposition 1 Cor 16:9 - may be a good sign, might be neutral

Suggested competency - stories
 * Story of Tibetian 8yr old, goes to adjacent village for 2-4 days, learns he is a priest/shaman, goes back to his own town and starts casting out demans
 * Apollos
 * Simon the sorcer, sorcery but then saved w/o recorded conflict, but then offers money to get power
 * Mark 9:38 random man casts out demons in JC name
 * Paul stays in Antioch 3 years before primary missions, and he was learned