MR4-3B:
Evangelistic Bridge Building
Creating & Implementing Community Connections
This workshop will stimulate your vision in building bridges for evangelism in your community. Discussions will address readiness within the congregation and will give some potential issues that may need to be addressed or shifted within the local church. The workshop leader will guide participants in understanding the many avenues available to impact the local community and discuss available data on local lifestyle characteristics as well as discuss potential barriers to the evangelism.
Workshop Objectives
What you will learn in this workshop
1. That missional congregations may need to evaluate areas of their ministries on an ongoing basis to allow for cultural bridges for evangelism.
2. You will be exposed to some possible community bridges to evangelism.
3. Gain understanding of some bridges to specific lifestyle groups in your community.
4. Learn about cultural barriers that might be a hinderance to communication of the gospel in your community.
Workshop Outline
1. Cultural Bridges for Evangelism
2. Cultural Barriers to Evangelism
3. Cultural Themes for Evangelism
4. Proximity Spaces for Evangelism
5. Shared Projects in Evangelism
6. Business Platforms for Evangelism
7. Indigenous Faith Issues in Evangelism