Thanksgiving Evangelism

Hard to believe that the world's best holiday is only 12 days away. Thanksgiving Day is my favorite holiday, because its purpose is a national time of giving thanks to God for his many blessings and mercies he has shown us, both as a nation and individually.

I went out to the corner by WalMart this past Thursday after work, and I took my light-up "give thanks" witnessing cross with me. Gets dark early, so I use this cross more in the winter season...I can change out the panels to change the message on the cross (for example, "Jesus Saves", and I'm thinking about making a set of panels saying "Wise Men Seek Jesus"for the Christmas season.

You can pray for young man named Ruben, who stopped out on Thursday for a Bible. It was cold, and he was just wearing a T-shirt, so I quickly gave him some background on the Bible, explained  the message of the gospel, and also gave him a "One Second After You Die" booklet to take with him.  Pray that God would give him a desire and an understanding of the message of the gospel, that he might come to saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

 And while you and I give thanks to God this Thanksgiving season for his goodness to us, lets also give thanks that we have a great Savior to share with their friends and neighbors,  and the freedom - still - to share that message of hope, forgiveness, and eternal life in Jesus Christ with all around us.  And we can demonstrate that we truly are thankful by taking these opportunities to reach out to the lost while were able.
Maranatha!
Paul.

New Evangelism Site and App

I wanted to talk about a fairly new evangelism website and app that could revolutionize how we do evangelism, not only in our local churches, but throughout the United States, interdenominationally as The Church, the universal Body of Christ. Imagine Christians working together as one team throughout the United States to save reach every household for Jesus Christ.

Every Home For Christ, which started in 1946, has the mission to reach every single home in the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Part of that mission is to equip and engage those in the United States. Their new website for the U.S.A. is Encounter Life. Here you can receive training, tracts, and a plethora of information at your fingertips. This is nothing new. We have seen many websites like this throughout the years. But what I am about to show you will blow your mind.

Every Home For Christ put out an app called Encounter Outreach. With this app you can keep track of your evangelism efforts. The homes that you encounter for Christ. It will keep track of prayer requests, whether the person you talked with was open or defensive against the gospel, or if you left any information. You can create groups to do evangelism with your church, neighborhood, or with whomever you want. But what is really cool about this app, is that you can see how everyone else is doing, and share your information with the entire country. One more thing...this is entirely FREE!!!

So, lets work together. For our neighborhoods, hometowns, ... for Iowa!!!