“Spiritual Growth Campaigns, a Strategic Plan for ...



“Spiritual Growth Campaigns, a Strategic Plan for Evangelism and Discipleship"

Goal: Provide a simple and practical strategy for evangelism and discipleship that will fit your context.

1. My background

a. Churches pastored

b. Greatest challenges

i. Discovering a way to get the majority of the church on board for discipleship and evangelism

1. How do we get our congregation to invite their friends and get involved in a small group?

a. My normal strategy: preach at them and complain about them.

i. Not everyone has the gift of evangelism and we did not have structure in place to engage people in discipleship

2. The discovery

a. Coming to Living Word Church four years ago. I spent most of the time planning from week to week and finding myself frustrated and overwhelmed.

b. Some trusted friends helped me become more strategic and purposeful

c. Honest about short comings and trial and error. We are still learning and have discovered some success and what not do next time. (The importance of honest evaluation)

3. The strategy

a. 3 Big days outreach days a year

b. A clear assimilation process

c. One unifying spiritual growth campaign a year.

4. 3 big outreach days

a. Easter, Christmas Eve and Back to School

i. Mailers

ii. Banners

iii. Invite cards

1. stay positive invite card to Sheretta

iv. Invest and invite (3 people you will pray, invest and invite to church

v. Church wide prayer emphasis

vi. Set a goal

vii. Look at your building, first impression and worship service with fresh eyes.

viii. Develop Plan to follow up on guests

5. A clear assimilation process

a. Big event followed by a relevant sermon series

b. “Give us 4 more weeks”

c. Lunch with the pastor 4 weeks after

i. Who are we?

ii. How you can fit in?

1. Small group

2. Ministry opportunities

d. Baptism 6th week

i. Expect people to come to Christ

ii. Spontaneous baptism

e. Starting point class

f. Plan your calendar out for 1 year.

6. Church Wide Spiritual growth campaign

a. Transformed and 40 days in the word

i. Daily devotional

ii. Sermon

iii. Small group

iv. Service project

v. 6 week commitment

vi. Lead up to Easter

7. Challenge

a. Easter

i. Set a goal

ii. Cast a clear compelling vision to the church

iii. Prepare for a crowd

iv. Develop a follow up process

v. Pray

b. Follow up process

Items needed

Examples of banners, invite cards, mailers (cost and vendor)

Life church options

Sermon series titles and outlines

Transformed information

Starting point

Lunch with the pastor

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