Southern Baptist Are Becoming IFB

[T-Bone]

I'm no Baptist so I tend to stay out of these threads but I'll have to agree. Knocking on doors is overrated.

Well, then, let's just take Revelation 3:20 out of the Bible!
"Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me."

My bad. I always thought the Lord was talking to the church of Laodicea about their lukewarmness and not about door to door house visitation.

You are spot on...in context Rev. 3:20 is to the lukewarm church...it has nothing to do with door to door evangelism, or evangelism of any kind.  So CofT you don't need to take it out of the Bible...just read and interpret it correctly in context.

 

[Smellin Coffee]

I'm no Baptist so I tend to stay out of these threads but I'll have to agree. Knocking on doors is overrated.

Well, then, let's just take Revelation 3:20 out of the Bible!
"Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me."

But will this method work in a teepee reservation?

 

[Binaca Chugger]

There are many, many, many, many, many ways to be "evangelistic" other than knocking on doors.

I'm no Baptist so I tend to stay out of these threads but I'll have to agree. Knocking on doors is overrated.

Would either of you care to share your preferred method for taking the Gospel into the world in efforts to evangelize?

 

[rsc2a]

"Let your light so shine before men that they praise your good works and glorify your Father in heaven."

It's amazing the impact you can have on others simply by loving your neighbors and living your faith.

 

[T-Bone]

"Let your light so shine before men that they praise your good works and glorify your Father in heaven."

It's amazing the impact you can have on others simply by loving your neighbors and living your faith.

Yup! What rsc2a said.

Also meeting people where they are and sharing as the Holy Spirit leads.
Just finished open air meetings, preaching Gospel for a week in Mexico.
Sometimes, going door to door.

Now will you acknowledge CofT's  improper interpretation of Rev. 3:20? Not a good idea pulling a verse out of context ...before you know it you will be baptizing for the dead!

 

[rsc2a]

How I make door to door evangelism effective. I invite the JWs in to chat when THEY knock on MY door.

 

[T-Bone]

How I make door to door evangelism effective. I invite the JWs in to chat when THEY knock on MY door.

Me too... But they leave quickly when I start sharing Scripture. 8)

 

[bgwilkinson]

You could visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, those you know in your circle of influence.

 

[rsc2a]

How I make door to door evangelism effective. I invite the JWs in to chat when THEY knock on MY door.

Me too... But they leave quickly when I start sharing Scripture. 8)

The younger part of the duo is generally quite interested. The older one tends to shoo him out relatively quickly.

 

[T-Bone]

How I make door to door evangelism effective. I invite the JWs in to chat when THEY knock on MY door.

Me too... But they leave quickly when I start sharing Scripture. 8)

The younger part of the duo is generally quite interested. The older one tends to shoo him out relatively quickly.

Every time! 

 

[Tarheel Baptist]

You use a very broad brush in your assessment of SBC churches.

You NEVER broad brush, I'm sure.  :

I'm sure you know much better than me....

 

[praise_yeshua]

"Let your light so shine before men that they praise your good works and glorify your Father in heaven."

It's amazing the impact you can have on others simply by loving your neighbors and living your faith.

You have no idea how to apply what you've quoted. It wasn't written to you. It was a condemnation of Israel. Israel was to be a shining light to this world and all know how that turned out.

The Gospel isn't about you.

 

[rsc2a]

"Let your light so shine before men that they praise your good works and glorify your Father in heaven."

It's amazing the impact you can have on others simply by loving your neighbors and living your faith.

You have no idea how to apply what you've quoted. It wasn't written to you. It was a condemnation of Israel. Israel was to be a shining light to this world and all know how that turned out.

The Gospel isn't about you.

Jesus followers shouldn't follow the teachings of Jesus, particularly in the sermon in which He instructed His followers in how they should act? What kind of hyper-dispensational Ruckman koolaid are you drinking?

And the Gospel is about me. It's about you. It's about all of creation...and, most importantly, it's about Jesus.

 

[Binaca Chugger]

"Let your light so shine before men that they praise your good works and glorify your Father in heaven."

It's amazing the impact you can have on others simply by loving your neighbors and living your faith.

Agreed.  Now combine that with Mat 28:19-20  Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. and it will be even more amazing the impact you can have for the Kingdom of God.

 

[Binaca Chugger]

You could visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, those you know in your circle of influence.

That would be pastoral visitation, not evangelism.

 

[bgwilkinson]

You could visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, those you know in your circle of influence.

That would be pastoral visitation, not evangelism.

My experience is that they are very receptive to the gospel. I'm not a pastor.

James calls this pure religion.

Some plant, some water and some reap the harvest.

 

[rsc2a]

"Let your light so shine before men that they praise your good works and glorify your Father in heaven."

It's amazing the impact you can have on others simply by loving your neighbors and living your faith.

Agreed.  Now combine that with Mat 28:19-20  Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. and it will be even more amazing the impact you can have for the Kingdom of God.

Yup. Nothing there about knocking on doors. Plenty of natural teaching opportunities simply by living my faith openly and loving others. Even had a baptism in there. And I don't come across as an obnoxious vacuum salesman.

 

[rsc2a]

You could visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, those you know in your circle of influence.

That would be pastoral visitation, not evangelism.

Often a distinction without a difference. What is the gospel in action: telling the lame man to rise and walk or that his sins are forgiven?

Answer: both.

 

[Binaca Chugger]

You could visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, those you know in your circle of influence.

That would be pastoral visitation, not evangelism.

Often a distinction without a difference. What is the gospel in action: telling the lame man to rise and walk or that his sins are forgiven?

Answer: both.

The overwhelming majority of people in my circle of influence are already Christians.  Please remember that the deacons were ordained to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction that were in the church.  Thus, such would be a pastoral visit. 

By expanding our area of influence through evangelistic outreach, we discover others in such a predicament.  When we visit these, it may become evangelistic.

 

[Just John]

I have to say I am a bit surprised by some of the lack of knowledge by those criticizing the SBC.

The convention is VERY different today than the 50's and 60's...in a good way. The conservatives started a takeover of the Convention in 1979  with the election of Adrian Rogers and Conservatives have held the position since then. Roger's election began a cleansing of liberals (the real kind...theological liberals) from the Convention leadership positions in Nashville and wholesale firings of liberal professors in the SBC colleges and seminaries. Later 1900 churches would leave the newly conservative convention and start the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Not long after Jerry Falwell and many independent Baptist churches joined the SBC.

I believe David Cloud knowingly misleads people with his yellow journalism. I have been at some of the same events that he has reported on and I know he has lied about them. His use of "quotes" to "prove" his agenda on CCM are seldom from the last quarter century and taken clearly out of context. There are several more but that's enough.