How Can We Reach Our Community?

Many of you will remember Pastor Lewis Allen (Hope Church, Huddersfield) preaching the anniversary services at Smithton just one year ago. Lewis writes an excellent blog called “Reclaimed” (you can find this blog and others on our recommendations page). I want to recommend Reclaimed to you, especially a blog article that Lewis has posted today called “12 Pointers for Local Church Evangelism.”

This article is based on a talk Lewis did for the South East Gospel Partnership day on Evangelism a few years ago. In the article, Lewis asks 12 questions that we (all Christians, as well as Smithton Church specifically) should be asking in regards to evangelism:

1. Have you decided on who you are trying to reach?

2. Where are some of the focal points in your community?

3. Is your church leadership ensuring that people are free for relationships with nonChristian friends; or are they snowed under with Christian activities, and move only in Christian circles?

4. Where does your evangelism come from?

5. Are you developing evangelists?

6. Do evangelism together.

7. Do you budget for evangelism?

8. Remember the attractiveness of community.

9. Prayer – is yours a praying church?

10. Are you putting thought and effort into communicating with nonChristian people who would never come near your premises?

11. Do your Sunday services meet the hearts and minds of nonChristian people?

12. How can you serve your community?

Click here to read the full article, which also contains Lewis’s answers to these questions.