Sermon Tone Analysis

Reaching Our community

KJV 1900

KJV 1900

19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 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.

The mall in Independence Mo.

Used to be the place to go

The entire community shopped there

Busy and full parking lot

Left to go away to college and work for 15 years

The mall was on its last legs - 50% of the stores were closed

Two years later it was bulldozed over for a development

What happened - shopping patterns changed , the community changed and the mall just stayed the same with over priced speciality stores that did not know the community in which they resided.

People used to come because it was the mall.

The mall used to meed a need for consumer products that need is still there but the methods of purchase and items demanded by the community have changed.

Now the are is thriving with a Super Walmart, Target and Costco

The Church

People moved into an area they would look for a church - now not even a thought

Parents desired their to attend a Sunday school - what is Sunday school?

Church would have revivals and the community would attend- now only other believers from other churches visit

VBS they would just come - now an concentrated effort is required to educate the community on what VBS actually is

The culture and the community would attend - the community and the culture has changed

some fight change many don't like the changes in the culture and the only place they can go and feel at home is the church and ts just like the 70’s and has not changed at all except the sized of the church and the average age.

That is idolatry worshiping the methods and means of the past .

In a bubble

Evangelism used to be low hanging fruit from door to door or walk-ins

Every year more than 4000 churches close their doors

10,000 chuch

Every year, 2.7 million church members fall into inactivity.

This translates into the realization that people are leaving the church

The United States now ranks third (3rd) following China and India in the number of people who are not professing Christians; in other words, the U.S. is becoming an ever increasing "un-reached people group."

What we hear as responses from most of our church leaders are the excuses of "cultural decay" and "changing values" and that "the average American views the church with little regard."

Some even go as far as to despise the community they reside in “what wrong with those people”

If we just did church they way we did 30 years ago........

We must reach our community in Fair view, Mill Creek, Erie and West County and Eastern,OH

If that's not enough even members dint attend like they used to:

They are more mobile.

They are more affluent.

They are more mobile.They are more affluent.They have more options.They consider church optional.They have not been challenged.They are likely not active in a small group.

They have more options.

They consider church optional.

They have not been challenged.

They are likely not active in a small group.

We as a church exist to make a difference in our community, proclaiming the Gospel by:

We as a church exist to make a difference in our community, proclaiming the Gospel by:

· Worshiping the Lord

· Praying Corporately

· Growing in Grace

· Reaching Our Community

Giving of Our Resources

We must fall on their faces before God and ask Him to Walnut Creek Baptist with an evangelistic passion.

When evangelism dies as a priority in the church, the church has already begun to die.

Most growth in churches is from transfers, not conversions.

93-94% of churches are not effectively evangelistic.

Churches have lost their intentionality in evangelism.

Evangelism is falling off the radar for many churches.

Churches that are intentional about evangelism are evangelistic churches.

Evangelism is often the least natural ministry in many churches.

If there is not explicit intentionality about evangelism, it will wane in a church.

Evangelism is not the sole responsibility of the pastor and church staff.

If we depend on a single evangelistic event, we abdicate our daily evangelistic responsibility.

Don’t think of evangelism as a once-a-year church event.

We should be highly intentional and prayerful about connecting with unbelievers.

The most effective evangelistic churches have two main characteristics: obedience and prayer.

Evangelism is dying.

Reaching our Community Requires

I A Conviction that Salvation is for Everybody

Romans 10:

No difference between Jew and Greek

Because Christ is the only way of salvation.

There is no way around it.

Salvation is exclusive.

There is only one way.

Jesus could not have made it clearer in

Because Christ is the only way of salvation.

There is no way around it.

Salvation is exclusive.

There is only one way.

Jesus could not have made it clearer in : “Jesus told him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life.

No one comes to the Father except through Me.’” Jesus had an urgent message.

He had an exclusive message.

We must be conveyors of that narrowly-defined hope.

Jesus had an urgent message.

He had an exclusive message.

: “Jesus told him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life.

No one comes to the Father except through Me.’” Jesus had an urgent message.

He had an exclusive message.

We must be conveyors of that narrowly-defined hope.

We must be conveyors of that narrowly-defined hope.

Because Christ died for the world.

jio There is a reason is the most familiar and most quoted verse in the history of humanity.

Jesus died for the world.

He is the only way, but He has provided a way for everyone.

That is a message that is urgent and worth telling.

Indeed it’s the greatest message ever.