Last week, I went to part of a day's workshop with Steve Sjogren who teaches on effective evangelism through servanthood. When Christians think of "evangelism" all sorts of emotions and memories get attached: fear, distrust, inadequacy, distasteful, pushy. Sjogren talks about evangelism as a process of serving into the hearts of people.
His functional definition of servant evangelism is:
Demonstrating God's love by offering to do some humble act of service with no strings attached.
He gives 15 ways that servant evangelism seems to be effective and do-able:
1. works through character rather than gifting
2. quick
3. touches many
4. team building
5. allows for a flexible focus
6. opens doors for the Holy Spirit
7. allows shy people to get their feet wet
8. non-aggressive
9. simple
10. inexpensive
11. doesn't require a great amount of training
12. giving-centered versus asking-centered
13. provides an open door for the miraculous
14. provides a safe place for very ambitious people
15. it's big fun!
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