Ever since being given the Great Commission, the church has made evangelism a priority. Peter preached to street crowds; Paul reasoned with philosophers; Barnabas cozied up to the synagogue crowd of the Diaspora. Carey went to India, and Moody started a Sunday school, and Bright devised four laws. The methods have been as diverse as the personalities, but in every age, God’s people have spread God’s story.
The coming of a new decade occasions a look at what is happening in evangelism in this age. What’s working? What’s not? How can the gospel penetrate the decade of compact disks and cocooning?
To investigate this subject, the LEADERSHIP editors brought together three pastors and an evangelist who have considered these questions in their ministries and have devised effective means to carry out the Great Commission:
-Ed Dobson, pastor of Calvary Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and former associate of Jerry Falwell in Lynchburg, Virginia;
-Les Magee, a former missionary to Portugal and Brazil, who now pastors Washington Heights Baptist Church in Ogden, Utah;
-Larry Moyer, executive director of EvanTell, Inc., a Dallas-based evangelistic organization; and
-Raleigh Washington, a career military man converted as an adult, who now serves as pastor of Rock of Our Salvation Evangelical Free Church in Chicago.
Leadership: When you began ministry, what was the most common way to evangelize the lost?
Les Magee: I recall two methods. The first was street meetings. Our youth group would go out on a street corner and sing and share our faith with little thought to effectiveness or relating to people.
A completely different method was practiced in our family. When my parents became Christians, they began to reach out to people in their family and to neighbors. In them, I saw personal concern attached to a desire to be effective.
Ed Dobson: I began ministry in the early seventies by starting a church in a little mountain town in Virginia. The first week I was in town, the editor of the newspaper told me, “I’ve seen about a dozen churches try to start in this town. Like everybody else, you’re going to fail.” That gave me a high level of motivation!
There were 6,400 people in town, and my goal was to knock on every door in the first two years. I gave them a brochure introducing myself and the church, and I let them know if ever they needed a pastor or spiritual help, they could call. We also followed up on people who made contact with the church. In the first two years, we baptized over a hundred people a year, mostly new converts.
Leadership: Did you ever pay the editor a return visit?
Dobson: Oh, yes. He even started coming to church.
Raleigh Washington: I came to the Lord late in life-age 38-and consequently I felt an urgency for every sinner who didn’t know Christ. I’d been in church all my life, but I hadn’t experienced true evangelism. So bold evangelism-purposeful evangelism-became a part of my ministry from the start. I gave evangelistic calls regularly from the pulpit, led evangelistic rallies, and did door-to-door evangelism.
Leadership: How has the task of evangelism changed during your years in ministry?
Larry Moyer: Since I began traveling as an itinerant evangelist in 1973, I’ve seen a lot of people come to Christ in crusades, but our ministry extends beyond that to training people how to share their faith one-on-one. The best evangelistic strategy remains one person reaching out to lost friends.
During my ministry we’ve changed the way we prepare for crusades. You used to be able to say “Crusade!” and everybody showed up. It was the hottest thing in town-but no more. Now, about 80 percent of the people are brought to crusades by friends. So we spend a lot of time telling Christians how to develop relationships with the unsaved and to then say, “Come and hear what this fellow has to say.” Because trust has been built, it’s really no different than saying to a friend, “Hey, come to a football game with me.”
Magee: The audience is different today. People distrust “organized religion,” whatever that means. They think the church receives orders from the top, cares little about their needs, and talks about issues that don’t interest them.
Washington: Bill Hybels’s drive to show the relevance of Christianity to the “unchurched Harrys” has deeply affected me. Today’s people force us to present the gospel in a way that’s meaningful to their lives. For one thing, the church can provide entertainment with a Christian message-like dynamite contemporary concerts. That’s relevant to my teenage kids!
Second, we can meet people where they’re hurting, be concerned about physical needs as well as spiritual needs. In my neighborhood of Chicago, Austin, probably 60 percent of the babies are born to unwed, teenage mothers-an undeniable problem of immorality. But not far away, affluent Lake Forest has one of the highest rates of teen suicide in the country, and that’s partly related to pregnancy and abortion. In each community the root cause is spiritual, and we have to address it.
Dobson: The list could go on and on: divorce, single parents, drug and substance abuse, loneliness. We’re obligated to speak to these needs.
Magee: We also need to be aware of the increasing number of cultures within our country. We’re not a melting pot anymore; not everybody shares our cultural expectations or responds to the gospel the same way.
When I went overseas as a missionary, I was taught to understand the culture I was entering. For instance, I was shocked to be served wine in a communion service in Portugal. “Don’t you use grape juice?” I asked.
“Don’t you read your Bible?” was their response. (Laughter)
Although I’m set on grape juice in Utah, in Portugal I couldn’t say they shouldn’t use wine.
When we moved into a new facility in our Utah church, we decided to adapt partly to the Mormon culture. Every time they dedicate a new temple, they invite the community to an open house. We knew many people would feel uncomfortable coming to our dedication service, so we advertised an open house. Like the Mormons do, we gave people guided tours through our facility the week before the dedication. Many people from the neighborhood came through, talked with our people, and took home literature explaining our ministry.
Dobson: I’m discovering that if you’re trying to reach the unreached, you have to accept some of the cultural baggage they bring. The other night a guy walked out of our service, turned to his friends, and announced, “That was one h— of a service!” He shocked a few of the ushers, but we realized we had reached someone who to this point hadn’t been touched.
Magee: I find I have to be aware of the words I use, because what I mean may not be what people hear. In Utah, we can say, “Believe in Jesus Christ,” and people say, “We do!” Unfortunately the Jesus Christ they believe in is not the same as the one we proclaim. So we have to define our words closely. Even outside Mormon territory, theological terms have taken on meanings never meant by Christians.
Dobson: People today are looking for choices. For instance, a friend is getting ready to build a large sanctuary in Grand Rapids, but he’s nervous about it. Now they have three morning and two evening services-lots of choices for his people. But when the sanctuary is built, people will fit into one big service. Churches in his situation have experienced significant drops in attendance when people are forced to fit into one service, especially if it is at a time not of their choosing.
Magee: There’s another side to that. Before we relocated, overcrowding forced us into two services for a few months. Our growth actually leveled off during that period, which countered most expectations. My only conclusion was that in Utah there are so few large evangelical churches that people actually enjoyed the bigness of our service. They didn’t feel alone when they were crowded into an overflowing building.
Washington: I believe in a shotgun approach to evangelism-not wastefully trying everything, but trying as many things as I feel the church can do well. When a need arises or an idea comes up, my tendency is to go for it. Later we evaluate what has worked and what hasn’t. We drop activities that go flat and run with the ones that work.
Leadership: Some people say our age is resistant to the gospel. Would you concur?
Moyer: I’m in my seventeenth year of ministry, and I’ve never seen a day when the unsaved are more open than they are today.
Dobson: I would agree with that.
Moyer: With cancer, AIDS, freak bombings and shootings, and the breakup of the home, people are looking for answers. In a recent survey, it was found that next to sex, death was the number-one topic on teenagers’ minds. Life is uncertain these days, and that makes it a prime time for evangelism.
People are so open I’m startled. I’d estimate only one out of ten is unwilling to talk with me when I witness. If we don’t use this time to reach out to the unsaved, we ought to consider closing our doors.
Leadership: That sounds exciting, but surely you’ve found there are periods of life or events that make some people resistant. When are people most closed?
Moyer: When they feel they’re being attacked. They get their defenses up and begin to justify the unjustifiable.
Dobson: Once we had an evangelist speak, and in the front row were several couples with one spouse a searching nonbeliever from a different religion. The speaker made a blatant attack against the religion, and my face turned red. I thought, Here we work so hard to reach these people, and you build a wall we’ll have to work all the harder to overcome!
I want people in our church to feel you can bring your business partner or the guy from the law firm and not have to sit through the service in a sweat, hoping somebody won’t say something embarrassing that will make people resistant.
Washington: I agree, but that creates an inner tension for me. The strongest movement in the black community is the Jehovah’s Witnesses. They are busy, and people are susceptible to their work. Sometimes I need to say something direct about their beliefs. I’ve had to break the rule many times, although I’d rather not.
Dobson: People are also resistant when everything is going well. They feel they don’t need God.
Washington: Another point of resistance is when people are involved in known sin and yet enjoy it. That makes for a hardness that is difficult to crack. When someone has a live-in and isn’t ready to make the break, he can be confronted with the Word, be open to the gospel, but still be unwilling to make the difficult step of moving the person out.
Leadership: That brings up a sticky point. As one evangelist once told us, “I catch the fish, but I let someone else clean them.” How much “cleaning” is necessary for real evangelism to have taken place? Can a person with a live-in, for instance, truly become a Christian without changing that arrangement?
Dobson: Saving faith means turning toward Christ from one’s sin. It presupposes conviction of sin and repentance. Ultimately it becomes evident in the sanctification process.
However, having said that, I’m not sure I do a good job articulating that with the people I meet. A couple I dealt with recently were living together. I met them for lunch numerous times and talked about Christ and the gospel. The guy ended up trusting Christ one day in my office.
As I sat there watching him weep and pour out his heart to God, I thought, Now do I tell him he’s got to leave his girlfriend in order to be saved? My orthodoxy and my orthopraxy didn’t quite correlate at that point, because I decided to let God deal with that aspect of his life. Before long his girlfriend came to Christ, and then they asked me to marry them.
Then I had a second dilemma: Do I marry them when they’re living together? They eventually agreed to move apart before marrying, but that’s another story. I find the theology written by Hodge or MacArthur or others makes for wonderful reading and intense theological debate. But when you have to look in the eyes of someone struggling with the problem of sin and translate that theology into actual life, it’s a lot more difficult to sort out.
Moyer: People need to know they’re sinners and that they need to trust Christ. But what I don’t hear Christ saying is, “Once you get rid of her, then I’ll take you.” I think he’s saying, “Trust me, and I’ll help you straighten out things with her.” God accepts the sinner, even when he can’t accept the sin. Once people trust Christ, our job is to jump in immediately and help them grow week by week. It’s a mistake, however, to confuse evangelism and follow-up. It gives a garbled message.
Magee: On the other hand, we can appear dishonest and cause people eventually to turn away from Christ if we don’t tell them something of the cost of discipleship. If they haven’t truly put their trust in him, they may feel they tried Christianity and found it lacking, when they haven’t tried it at all. Christ, himself, preached “Repent!” as he began his ministry.
Moyer: “Trust Jesus” means to trust him as your only way to heaven. That has to be made clear. Temporal concerns make fine bridges for the gospel, but ultimately the gospel is about your eternal destiny.
Washington: How people respond afterward best indicates the reality of lordship. If I “turn from my wicked ways,” that repentance involves a change of attitude manifested in a change in my behavior. I may have to repent over and over again. But the key is: When I made my original commitment, did I turn and fully trust Christ and want to follow him in all aspects of living? I may say, “Yes. I’m willing to do that. I don’t know how I’m going to do it, but I want to.” To me, the point of salvation is the point where that solid decision is made.
Leadership: How much must the gospel message be merged with relevant social issues of our time?
Dobson: I think the politicization of the gospel has been a major obstacle to evangelism. In the nineties, we need to demonstrate our genuine concern, but we can’t become associated with a political party or one-issue agenda.
I’ve even spoken against sit-in protests at abortion clinics, because we are obligated to reach the people within those clinics with the gospel. Once we’ve identified with a particular political stance, we’ve alienated anybody who disagrees. How can we share Christ with them?
If I’m to reach Grand Rapids, that means reaching the National Organization of Women; it means Planned Parenthood; it means the Democrats and the Republicans, the Hispanics and the blacks, the religious and the nonreligious. I have to figure out a way to be true to my conscience and values without unnecessarily wiping out my credibility with a segment of the community. We have to speak to issues-discrimination, moral values, sexual ethics, the value of life-but we need to do it without overtly identifying with political parties.
Washington: I feel strongly that the pulpit should not identify with any political party, but I have to identify where I stand on social injustices. Fortunately, the Scriptures give me many places to preach against racism and injustice. I would be irrelevant if I were to ignore such issues.
So, although I wouldn’t have an alderman speak at my church during a campaign, I do tell my people to vote and to measure their political decisions against the Word of God.
Social evils such as slavery are wrong, but a greater problem is captivity and enslavement by Satan and sin. That’s the chain I’ve got to break. Civil concerns can’t be ignored, but they often have taken the focus of black people off the biblical truth of personal repentance.
Leadership: What are some of the evangelistic methods that have worked for you?
Dobson: A little over a year ago, we started a totally nontraditional, Saturday-evening . . . I have a hard time even calling it a church service! It’s a program that targets unchurched 20- and 30-year-olds. If we were to put a set of drums on the platform on Sunday morning, I’d spend all week answering for it, but this Saturday-evening program is radical.
We planned and promoted it as a six-week experiment. We honestly didn’t know if it would fly, but we’re into our second year, and it’s worked. Unchurched people are attending-30 percent on a given evening haven’t been to church in six months-and are coming to Christ.
In planning it, we got together a small group of “secular Christians,” people who have come to Christ with no church background. They weren’t poisoned by notions of what church “ought to be.” We asked them the question: What would be necessary to attract your friends to a church setting?
They answered, “It has to be informal. You have to address issues that interest us, not you. Use contemporary music and drama.” So I speak in a pair of blue jeans and a T-shirt, and we open it up for questions from the audience after my sermon. That tells them we’re willing to face the kind of questions they’re struggling with. The program last week had twenty-one different elements-short sketches, dramas, Barry McGuire’s song “The Eve of Destruction” with video, humorous skits.
Every week we deal with a question, such as “AIDS: Is it a curse from God?” or “Would Jesus wear a Rolex watch?” I have to switch into thinking like a person who couldn’t tell a Pharisee from a pharmacist, but I enjoy it.
One Saturday night we did a program on suicide, and a card came forward with this question: “My brother wasn’t a believer, but I am. He really struggled in life. He committed suicide without ever trusting the Lord. I kind of feel like I’ll see him in heaven. What do you think?”
I told him that within my heart I’d like to say there’s another way to heaven other than through faith in Jesus Christ, but I had to be honest with the Scriptures. If he shared Christ with his brother, we can hold out hope that somewhere in his final struggling moments he did turn to him. But if he were asking me if people can get to heaven without trusting Christ, I’d have to say no.
You can’t equivocate. People pick that up right away. So you can see our Saturday nights are taxing. We’ve already changed the format several times. But it’s reaching people for Christ.
Washington: We do a program we call Harvest Luncheon, something my wife envisioned to evangelize our neighbors. She had been visiting door-to-door in a run-down building of efficiency apartments crammed with households of four or five kids and a single mother. Her heart was broken. She had read about the banquet in Luke 14 where the rich and influential weren’t invited, but rather the poor. So she asked, “If we put on a lunch at our church, would you come?” They said yes. So we decided to have a free luncheon.
A man from a suburban church agreed to help with the costs, and we were on our way. Fifty women attended the first luncheon, and thirteen gave their lives to Christ. So we decided to do these luncheons twice a year.
A Canadian woman volunteered her baking services and produced a table fit for the president! Ninety ladies came to the second luncheon. My wife shared her testimony and gave an invitation, and sixteen women came forward.
About the time of the third luncheon, we decided to invite the men, so we put on the fliers: “Ladies, bring a man.” They did, and we had about 150. Both my wife and I shared this time, and twenty-two responded. We’ve gone to just one Harvest Luncheon a year now, but at the last one we had 350 adults and 250 kids.
Magee: Because of our setting in Utah, we’ve structured ourselves to be accessible to Mormons. For instance, we use hymns that Mormons use, such as “How Great Thou Art.” We also call our midweek activities “family night.” When we built our new building, we included a gym, because many of the Mormon wards have a gym where they focus their activities.
Our biggest difficulty is getting people to reach out. Non-Mormons can feel ostracized, and it’s easy for a church like ours to become a safe fortress. We have to guard against the siege mentality. Recently we’ve offered an adult elective titled “Cross-cultural Living in Utah” to help people avoid the tendency to either fear the isolation or lash out in resentment and ridicule. We want to understand and reach out to these people by seeing them through Christ’s eyes.
Moyer: When D. L. Moody was asked, “What’s the best way to reach the masses?” his answer was, “Go for them.” Churches that are getting evangelism done are the ones going after the people. They’re using any and every method they can think of.
We surveyed church leaders last year for ideas they have found effective in evangelism-not what ought to work, but what has worked for them. We ended up with a total of 142 ideas. It’s amazing to see the variety. I’ve been to a church with a monthly Friday night men’s dinner cooked by men for men to reach men. I met men saved as a result of that outreach. I’ve seen evangelistic picnics where each family spreads a blanket for themselves and an unsaved family they invite. I’ve seen an evangelistic volleyball game; to play, you had to bring an unsaved person with you. I know a family saved because a church had an evangelistic dinner at a Ramada Inn.
In The Battle for World Evangelism, the comment is made that “the ways of evangelism are as diverse as those to be reached and those who reach them.” My suggestion is to go through every activity in the church and ask, “Can this be used for evangelism?” If not, that’s fine, but if it can, then use it. A women’s study can be just another study, or, by giving it only a little different thrust, it can be used to encourage unsaved women to trust Jesus. Evangelistic churches are the ones that get creative minds together to brainstorm. Anything goes.
Leadership: Anything goes? Aren’t there inappropriate methods of evangelism?
Washington: Hey, I’m the wrong person to ask that. I even liked The Gospel Blimp. (Laughter)
Dobson: Well, we wouldn’t want to do anything that violates Scripture or compromises our message.
Methods must be scrutinized. For instance, on Saturday night, we have to be careful not to cloud the message of the gospel with entertainment. I don’t take part in any of the silly skits or use satire; my job is to share the Word and answer questions. The inherent danger of Saturday night is that we’ll do a wild and funny program that will fail to share Christ. That’s why we’ve committed 50 percent of the time to my talk and responding to questions.
Washington: Motive is key: Why are we doing what we’re doing? Our Harvest Luncheons are big productions, but they’re for one purpose: to offer an invitation to turn from sin and receive Christ. I’ll lay on the line the cost of following Christ so that they know our main motive is their salvation, not producing a big affair.
Magee: That’s right. Any deceptive practice is a bad method. A number of years ago, a city-wide campaign advertised that “the greatest evangelist in the world” would be there. They kept building up the speaker to the point that everybody expected Billy Graham or something. Finally when the speaker got up, he said, “The guest evangelist tonight is the Holy Spirit.” You could feel the disgust. Many people walked out. That was deliberately deceptive and counterproductive.
Dobson: Once at Lynchburg I was preaching on a Sunday when Jerry Falwell was out of town. A woman who had driven a long way to hear Jerry got really upset. An usher tried to calm her down by saying, “We’re awfully sorry Jerry can’t be here today, but the Lord’s here.”
The woman shot back, “I don’t care whether the Lord’s here or not. I came to hear Falwell!” (Laughter)
Leadership: Is fear-fear of condemnation, of hell-ever an appropriate motivator to use?
Dobson: The Bible says, “Knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men,” (1 Cor. 5:11, NASB). So it can be a motivation, but I wouldn’t want to use it exclusively.
It’s a tough subject. Even Christians don’t like to deal with it. Several months ago I was to preach on hell, and flying back from California I was working through the Bible passage on the plane. The guy sitting across the aisle noticed my Greek New Testament and said, “Reading Greek, eh? I took Greek in college.”
I said, “Oh, really? What college was that?”
“Wheaton.” We talked awhile, and I told him I was a minister. Finally he said, “Well, what are you preaching on Sunday?”
My mind started whirling. Here’s this guy on the plane with a bunch of buddies returning from a sales conference. He knows they’re overhearing our conversation, probably impressed that he knows Greek and is interested in religion. He’s probably thinking, This is a great opportunity for witnessing. I’ll just weave things in while they listen.
I was torn, but finally I decided to be honest: “I’m speaking on hell.”
“Oh. Okay,” was all he said. The conversation stopped dead in its tracks. I used that story to begin my sermon on hell; people are uncomfortable with the concept.
Washington: I don’t shrink from putting it on the line. But many people today have a mushy view of hell. They think, One of these days I’ll do something good, like help an old lady across the street, and then I won’t have to worry about hell. They believe that if they’re pretty decent, moral people, they’ll escape punishment.
Magee: People even joke about it. I’ve had people say to me, “I’d better go to hell, because that’s where all my friends will be!” In cases like that, I need to bring out that hell isn’t going to be enjoyable; it’s a place where anything you’d want to be around will be absent.
Washington: I’m amazed at how well people pick up on the idea of judgment. I say, “In the judgment, everything is going to come back. You know that test you cheated on, that other man’s wife? It all comes back.”
Unbelievers have no problem identifying with that. People may not want to face hell, but they can understand it; and we can give them the alternative.
Leadership: How do you get others involved in evangelism these days?
Moyer: Not by lambasting them for not evangelizing. Many believers dream about leading one person to Christ in their lifetime. But the two biggest reasons they don’t are fear and inexperience. It’s not that they don’t want to; they just don’t know how. Therefore we need to teach them what the Bible says about boldness and then take them out with us, training them on the job.
One of the best things you can do is ask God to give you some new converts. New Christians can do more than a year of preaching to get the passive veterans witnessing. The “What’s in it for me?” philosophy has crept into our churches. People need to be reminded that the only thing they can take with them to heaven is a friend.
Dobson: In the legal profession, even if you’re a senior partner, you always keep a handful of clients. You still practice law. Ministry needs to be the same way: no matter what my priority is as a pastor, I need to keep a handful of “clients,” people to whom I’m witnessing personally.
Moyer: In my travels I’ve found that if evangelism is to be a priority with the people, it needs to be a priority with the pastor. If it’s not, the people will never evangelize. I tell pastors who wonder where they can find time to evangelize, “The best thing for your people would be to tell them you’re trying to keep free at least one noon hour a week to have lunch with an unsaved person.”
Dobson: People know if the pastor witnesses. It comes out when you share what Christ is doing in your life and when people give their testimony at baptisms. It will be known.
A second way to get people involved is to make sure God is at work in your church. If a building is burning, people will drive miles to see it. It’s the same in a church: if something is happening in that community of believers, if people are excited about coming to church, they’re going to talk about it at the job or with their friends or neighbors. It’s something that grows out of a freshness of their relationship with Christ.
Washington: I try to take people out witnessing with me at least once a month. That has helped spark interest. We also get excited about the results. If the angels in heaven rejoice and shout when a person gives his life to Christ, why should we be denied the same joy? So we have people share about their witnessing success, and that kind of enthusiasm becomes contagious.
Magee: I try to help my people see the unchurched not as disembodied souls out there but as real people with understandable needs. That means a lot more to them than something nebulous like a soul that has to be won.
Dobson: It’s important to understand that not everybody has the gift of evangelism. I don’t think I do. I’m not the type who is always leading someone to Christ on an airplane. I’m more apt to offend people when I try. So I struggle with how to witness. Do I stop that busy waitress and ask her if she were to die right now would she be sure she’s going to heaven? Should I pass out tracts more? I feel guilty and frustrated, and I’m sure many others do, too.
Because of this, I try to communicate to our people that we as a church will provide nonthreatening events to which they can bring people. We’ll give our people training in how to share their faith, but we also give them nonthreatening settings to accomplish evangelism as part of the congregation. The whole weight doesn’t rest on their shoulders; they can be faithful in a number of ways, sometimes without saying a word.
Magee: We consider evangelism an effort of the total church community, not a Lone Ranger enterprise. We teach the Bible and disciple people to be growing Christians. They’re enthusiastic, and from the enthusiasm comes natural evangelism. They’re excited about what’s happening at the church, so they naturally invite those around them to come.
We see ourselves as a “join us” church. We have many programs and activities that look inviting to outsiders. When somebody brings them, or they come on their own, their needs are met and they meet the Lord. We support our members’ evangelism through what we offer at the church. They know that if they flub up, the church is still there to help out.
A few weeks ago, a young woman invited her boyfriend-a lapsed Mormon-to church. About halfway through the service, he turned to her and exclaimed, “I didn’t know anything like this existed!” He has been coming back regularly. The enthusiasm and warmth of our worship services makes evangelism for our people as easy as inviting a friend.
And when evangelism is done in this church context, it’s so much easier to integrate the converts into the congregation. It’s a natural extension of their conversion experience.
Dobson: I consider myself a fortunate evangelist. We have so many resources in our church from which to draw, and that’s not always the case. My dad is also a pastor, and his church in rural upstate New York may have forty to fifty on a Sunday. He couldn’t put on something like our Saturday Night if he had to. While we may have a few people saved every week, he may see a few saved every year.
Yet he maintains enthusiasm for evangelism, for studying the Word, for preaching, knowing he will never be in a setting where massive results will be seen. I have such respect for him. He serves as a constant reminder to me that God, in his sovereignty, has put each of us where he wants us, and our faithfulness is what matters most. Not big plans and programs. Not big numbers of people walking forward. But faithfulness in our enthusiasm and commitment to be his witnesses wherever we are situated.
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