1 00:00:00,770 --> 00:00:07,989 We have just finished having an evangelism seminar, a seminar which 2 00:00:10,142 --> 00:00:11,263 I guess I need to stand over here. 3 00:00:11,263 --> 00:00:13,044 I forgot I'm not mic'd up. 4 00:00:15,127 --> 00:00:17,248 It's one of those days for me, I guess. 5 00:00:18,109 --> 00:00:19,890 We had an amazing seminar. 6 00:00:20,311 --> 00:00:30,259 Rob came and gave us a lot of information, and it was a lot of information, but it's a lot of useful, good information. 7 00:00:30,821 --> 00:00:37,426 Rob did a great way of explaining exactly what we're going to need to be doing from contacts to a growing church. 8 00:00:37,538 --> 00:00:41,482 When I first saw this, he described it as a pipeline in several different ways. 9 00:00:41,482 --> 00:00:44,864 I couldn't help but think of the life cycle of a frog. 10 00:00:44,925 --> 00:00:48,428 You have the eggs, then they hatch into tadpoles. 11 00:00:48,428 --> 00:00:56,334 The tadpoles swim around for a while, eventually become frogs, and so on and so forth until you're back to the eggs. 12 00:00:56,334 --> 00:00:57,876 It's kind of the same thing. 13 00:00:57,876 --> 00:01:03,460 And I can't help but think that his model is a life cycle for our congregation. 14 00:01:03,821 --> 00:01:05,562 We have to change 15 00:01:06,004 --> 00:01:08,174 our way of looking at things. 16 00:01:08,675 --> 00:01:18,957 We have to be able to know what we're doing, all the different steps involved, and I know it's a lot, but the plan tonight is to break this down into small little pieces. 17 00:01:19,138 --> 00:01:21,058 This evening we're going to review. 18 00:01:21,058 --> 00:01:29,100 So I'm not giving you anything new that we haven't heard from Rob unless you missed the seminar, in which case this is a good explanation for you to hear, but we're going to go a 19 00:01:29,100 --> 00:01:35,642 bird's-eye view one last time over the evangelism model and all the different steps. 20 00:01:35,822 --> 00:01:39,484 90 % of our work is going to be in the contact phase. 21 00:01:39,484 --> 00:01:43,307 The contacts are how we get the people that we're going to reach out to. 22 00:01:43,307 --> 00:01:47,149 Unless we have people to reach out to, we can't evangelize. 23 00:01:49,409 --> 00:01:51,810 There's a lot of different steps in this. 24 00:01:52,370 --> 00:01:59,012 And we're gonna break down each one, and I'm gonna have to, because it's so small on the screen, I'm gonna have to bring it up here so I can see it. 25 00:02:00,012 --> 00:02:09,315 In the contacts, we have what Rob calls contact lists, visitors, new movers, door knocking, community outreach, and congregational activities. 26 00:02:09,315 --> 00:02:13,366 Now, every one of you tonight, at some point, will receive these. 27 00:02:13,366 --> 00:02:15,016 Yeah, you can go ahead and hand them out. 28 00:02:15,016 --> 00:02:17,037 I should have told them to do that earlier. 29 00:02:17,257 --> 00:02:17,911 But. 30 00:02:17,911 --> 00:02:26,578 We're gonna have them go around right now and give you guys this little card, just a little postcard that you can keep on you, keep in your Bible, and this is going to explain 31 00:02:26,578 --> 00:02:28,249 the congregational model. 32 00:02:28,249 --> 00:02:38,998 So we're gonna go from the contacts to the prospects, the Bible studies, the baptisms, the new converts, and the growing church, which comes around full cycle to getting more 33 00:02:38,998 --> 00:02:39,779 contacts. 34 00:02:39,779 --> 00:02:45,643 Now Rob likes to say that it is quantity over quality, and he's right. 35 00:02:45,684 --> 00:02:47,731 We always hear quality. 36 00:02:47,731 --> 00:02:49,261 over quantity. 37 00:02:50,182 --> 00:02:52,223 Yeah, I said it right. 38 00:02:52,464 --> 00:02:57,366 We always hear quality over quantity, but in this case we want more contacts. 39 00:02:57,366 --> 00:03:02,649 The more people we can reach out to, then the more people we're going to get to become new Christians. 40 00:03:02,649 --> 00:03:09,053 It's going to take a lot of them, so this is one of those rare instances where it's quantity over quality. 41 00:03:09,053 --> 00:03:14,535 If you look at your list, we're going to go through it a little bit at a time, we're going to look at target lists. 42 00:03:14,576 --> 00:03:17,485 This is how we're going to start out with 43 00:03:17,485 --> 00:03:22,645 Everyone should also be getting one of these School of Evangelism bookmarks. 44 00:03:22,825 --> 00:03:28,965 This bookmark needs to stay in your Bible, stay in your portfolio, whatever it is that you carry around with you each day. 45 00:03:28,965 --> 00:03:32,905 If you're a woman, if you have a purse, this is a great thing to keep on you. 46 00:03:33,165 --> 00:03:44,185 Our assignment for this next week, next Sunday, is I want 10 names of people who need prayers, people you know, people you might have studied with, people that you would like 47 00:03:44,185 --> 00:03:46,145 to study with and reach out to. 48 00:03:46,539 --> 00:03:49,030 We can all write down 10 names. 49 00:03:50,051 --> 00:03:54,413 And if you can't think of them off the top of your head, just go down through your contacts list. 50 00:03:54,512 --> 00:03:55,954 We all have cell phones full of them. 51 00:03:55,954 --> 00:03:58,896 I probably have 500 that I don't have photos for. 52 00:03:58,896 --> 00:04:01,517 There are tons of people that we can reach out to. 53 00:04:01,517 --> 00:04:05,379 But we're going to put 10 names on this card by next week. 54 00:04:06,700 --> 00:04:11,142 And on the back, it'll even show you the categories of the people that need to be here. 55 00:04:12,323 --> 00:04:16,417 These will eventually move from the contact list to the congregational list for prospecting. 56 00:04:16,417 --> 00:04:20,278 Now eventually we're probably going to rename the prospect category. 57 00:04:20,538 --> 00:04:25,539 We were talking a little bit about it and maybe calling it Collierville cares. 58 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:35,553 That way we can care for those people, but we're looking for visitors, airing brethren that haven't been here for awhile, people moving into the area, and we're actually going 59 00:04:35,553 --> 00:04:37,923 to be getting those metrics as well. 60 00:04:37,923 --> 00:04:44,105 So what Rob has set up for us is he's calmed down and he has purchased. 61 00:04:44,105 --> 00:04:46,888 all the information for new movers for the past several months. 62 00:04:46,888 --> 00:04:53,694 And we're going to keep receiving this information so that we can reach out into the community of people recently coming into Collierville. 63 00:04:53,694 --> 00:04:54,784 We're going to reach out to them. 64 00:04:54,784 --> 00:04:59,459 We're going to go give them a basket, just welcoming them into the neighborhood. 65 00:04:59,459 --> 00:05:02,221 And we're to get them hopefully interested in the church. 66 00:05:02,221 --> 00:05:05,544 Nobody hates getting a gift at their front door. 67 00:05:05,544 --> 00:05:11,839 When we first moved into the apartments for MSOP, all the wives had come together and we got this nice little basket with 68 00:05:12,009 --> 00:05:21,113 some cleaning supplies, a couple of little snacks, things like that, is a really good welcome gift full of things that you may or may not have thought of when you're moving. 69 00:05:21,113 --> 00:05:23,274 And so that's what we're going to try to do. 70 00:05:23,634 --> 00:05:25,615 We want people that are sick. 71 00:05:25,675 --> 00:05:27,956 We want scheduled for surgery. 72 00:05:27,956 --> 00:05:31,537 Those recovering from surgery, we have those on our list. 73 00:05:31,837 --> 00:05:40,843 We have cancer, those dealing with therapy, loss of loved one, newly married, birth of child, graduation, new job. 74 00:05:40,843 --> 00:05:44,695 lost job, depression, the list goes on and on. 75 00:05:44,695 --> 00:05:49,176 But one thing that you're gonna notice is a lot of these are life events. 76 00:05:49,537 --> 00:05:54,799 From moving to having a baby, they're all having something large happening in their life, something changing. 77 00:05:54,799 --> 00:05:59,151 We want to be there for our visitors and the people in the community for this. 78 00:05:59,151 --> 00:06:02,362 This is a community outreach event kind of thing. 79 00:06:02,542 --> 00:06:06,444 Because our goal is to reach the community and get them in here. 80 00:06:07,845 --> 00:06:09,431 There's a lot of steps. 81 00:06:09,431 --> 00:06:14,785 There's a lot of stuff that I'm going to repeat tonight over and over and over again, but it's because it needs to stick. 82 00:06:14,885 --> 00:06:16,467 We've got to be practicing this. 83 00:06:16,467 --> 00:06:22,551 But we're going to do it slowly over the next couple months, and we're going to put everything into place piece by piece. 84 00:06:22,972 --> 00:06:24,753 Again, it seems like a lot. 85 00:06:24,753 --> 00:06:26,445 You thought it was a lot listening to Rob? 86 00:06:26,445 --> 00:06:28,456 You should try reading this stuff. 87 00:06:28,456 --> 00:06:34,651 Because I sat down for over 15 hours this week, and I just read through the material. 88 00:06:34,731 --> 00:06:37,443 And it's all the stuff Rob said, and he's a great speaker. 89 00:06:37,443 --> 00:06:42,587 He got us all revved up for getting through evangelism training and getting us out into the community. 90 00:06:43,048 --> 00:06:44,709 But we've got to take it slow. 91 00:06:44,770 --> 00:06:47,412 Again, like you said, how do you eat an elephant? 92 00:06:47,532 --> 00:06:48,833 One bite at a time. 93 00:06:48,833 --> 00:06:51,275 You're not going to eat the whole trunk in one go. 94 00:06:52,056 --> 00:06:53,387 So we're going to do this. 95 00:06:55,829 --> 00:06:58,510 So again, you have the contact. 96 00:06:58,510 --> 00:06:59,851 This is personal. 97 00:06:59,851 --> 00:07:04,114 This School of Evangelism bookmark is what I'm going to call it. 98 00:07:04,114 --> 00:07:08,776 This needs to be your best friend over the next several months. 99 00:07:08,896 --> 00:07:10,997 Get used to always having one of these. 100 00:07:10,997 --> 00:07:15,320 And when you scratch someone off the list, we're going to have a table in the back. 101 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:18,201 It's an evangelism table where you can get more of these. 102 00:07:18,201 --> 00:07:19,542 I want you to refill it. 103 00:07:19,542 --> 00:07:22,964 If you can get a list of 20 people, 30 people, even better. 104 00:07:23,044 --> 00:07:24,811 We want to have these lists filled. 105 00:07:24,811 --> 00:07:32,706 So don't think that you're done once we have just 10 lists, because each week we're gonna take one to two people off your private list, and this is just yours. 106 00:07:32,706 --> 00:07:36,388 I don't need to see this, your neighbor doesn't need to see this, this is just you. 107 00:07:36,388 --> 00:07:45,993 We're gonna go through and we're gonna go down the line slowly, and we're gonna look for people that are dealing with surgery, those maybe who've lost a loved one. 108 00:07:46,153 --> 00:07:53,157 And we're gonna take those people off the list and slowly move them over onto our contact card. 109 00:07:53,983 --> 00:08:00,979 Once we've got them on the contact card, the coordinators can go through these and we can start sending them cards. 110 00:08:00,979 --> 00:08:02,740 We can reach out to them. 111 00:08:03,281 --> 00:08:13,389 We can't take, if everybody in here has 10 people and we have 35 total members, just throwing a number off the top of my head, that's 350 cards. 112 00:08:13,389 --> 00:08:15,551 We can't do that day one. 113 00:08:15,551 --> 00:08:16,952 That's not feasible. 114 00:08:16,952 --> 00:08:23,041 We're going to get there and we're going to do it together, but it's going to take a while to get it all set up. 115 00:08:23,041 --> 00:08:26,844 The contact cards are transfers of a personal contact. 116 00:08:26,844 --> 00:08:31,888 So your personal contact will go over onto the contact card, and it doesn't have to all be filled out. 117 00:08:31,888 --> 00:08:37,993 You see here we've got first name, last name, phone, email, location for study, date contacted. 118 00:08:38,114 --> 00:08:39,455 You don't have to worry about all that. 119 00:08:39,455 --> 00:08:41,476 Today, I even put it into practice. 120 00:08:41,476 --> 00:08:42,777 We had a couple of visitors. 121 00:08:42,777 --> 00:08:47,221 I know they were members here at Collierville once before, but I just wanted to see how I could do it. 122 00:08:47,221 --> 00:08:50,324 So I walked over, introduced myself again. 123 00:08:50,324 --> 00:08:52,545 We hadn't talked much previously. 124 00:08:52,545 --> 00:09:02,781 But just through conversation, I was able to get names, I was able to get birthdays, I was able to get phone numbers, I was able to get a mailing address, because come to find out, 125 00:09:02,781 --> 00:09:04,151 her birthday is next Tuesday. 126 00:09:04,151 --> 00:09:05,472 That was Lindsay. 127 00:09:05,552 --> 00:09:06,102 Was it Lindsay? 128 00:09:06,102 --> 00:09:07,353 I think Lindsay, yeah. 129 00:09:07,353 --> 00:09:11,475 And then her husband, his birthday, Ashley. 130 00:09:11,475 --> 00:09:12,596 Ashley, that's it. 131 00:09:12,596 --> 00:09:14,717 Ashley, I don't have it in front of me. 132 00:09:14,717 --> 00:09:16,678 I've got the slides up in front of me. 133 00:09:16,798 --> 00:09:18,899 Ashley's birthday is next Tuesday. 134 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:22,061 Their anniversary together is Wednesday. 135 00:09:22,197 --> 00:09:25,198 And his birthday is Thursday of next week. 136 00:09:25,198 --> 00:09:29,520 So we have three opportunities with one family to send them a card. 137 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:32,371 And when they said that, obviously I said, happy birthday. 138 00:09:32,371 --> 00:09:33,082 you know what? 139 00:09:33,082 --> 00:09:34,362 Let's practice. 140 00:09:34,402 --> 00:09:35,433 You know, we're a congregation. 141 00:09:35,433 --> 00:09:36,333 We love to send cards. 142 00:09:36,333 --> 00:09:37,844 Do you mind if we send you a card? 143 00:09:37,844 --> 00:09:39,464 yeah, that'd be fine. 144 00:09:40,165 --> 00:09:41,525 It just fell into place. 145 00:09:41,525 --> 00:09:42,926 It wasn't hard. 146 00:09:42,926 --> 00:09:44,486 All you do is ask. 147 00:09:44,787 --> 00:09:46,998 I don't know of anybody that would say, no, don't send me a card. 148 00:09:46,998 --> 00:09:48,928 Don't send me a happy birthday card. 149 00:09:49,129 --> 00:09:50,429 So we're going to do that. 150 00:09:50,763 --> 00:09:53,305 I've already written down all their information and we're going to send them a card. 151 00:09:53,305 --> 00:09:55,397 I'm not saying we're going to send three. 152 00:09:55,397 --> 00:10:01,001 In this rare instance, we may send three cards in one just to save on the postage. 153 00:10:01,341 --> 00:10:05,264 But we have the opportunity now and all it does is take them there. 154 00:10:05,405 --> 00:10:08,587 Is take you going over and saying hello to them. 155 00:10:08,587 --> 00:10:12,270 Just asking them for their information, getting to know something about them. 156 00:10:12,270 --> 00:10:16,417 We were laughing because they had two small children and we've got one on the way. 157 00:10:16,417 --> 00:10:22,581 We invited them, hey, you know what, we're gonna have to have them over as soon as our little one, well, not as soon as he's born, but we're gonna have a play date. 158 00:10:22,581 --> 00:10:24,322 They should come over to the house and get to know each other. 159 00:10:24,322 --> 00:10:28,377 I think we got three little best friends going right now and they don't even know it yet. 160 00:10:28,377 --> 00:10:29,305 You know, that makes them happy. 161 00:10:29,305 --> 00:10:30,646 It makes them smile. 162 00:10:31,607 --> 00:10:37,710 The important part is we're not going to be asking them anymore to fill out the cards on the back of the pew. 163 00:10:38,511 --> 00:10:39,712 It doesn't work. 164 00:10:40,132 --> 00:10:41,733 I don't even like to fill them out. 165 00:10:43,809 --> 00:10:44,990 We need to be talking to them. 166 00:10:44,990 --> 00:10:46,451 We need to be engaging with them. 167 00:10:46,451 --> 00:10:48,533 We need to get to know them on a personal level. 168 00:10:48,533 --> 00:10:54,118 Evangelism doesn't work unless you show a genuine interest in the people that are here. 169 00:10:54,198 --> 00:11:03,307 We have to show them that we love them, and it's far easier to get that information than crossing our fingers that they pulled a little card out of the back of the pew and handed 170 00:11:03,307 --> 00:11:08,632 in at the end of service, or when the basket gets passed around, which we don't pass the basket around. 171 00:11:08,632 --> 00:11:10,813 So we have to search the pews after. 172 00:11:11,487 --> 00:11:16,915 Eventually we're going to take these contacts from the contact cards and we're going to put them into... 173 00:11:16,915 --> 00:11:19,849 Man, it's so small. 174 00:11:21,633 --> 00:11:24,655 We're gonna put them onto the congregational contact list. 175 00:11:24,756 --> 00:11:34,023 These are the ones that will be getting not only the cards, but we're gonna try to reach out to in a personal manner, maybe go to their door, invite them to come to service, take 176 00:11:34,023 --> 00:11:36,585 them out to lunch, things like that. 177 00:11:37,606 --> 00:11:43,411 Outside in the foyer, by next week, we're going to have the evangelism table. 178 00:11:43,411 --> 00:11:46,043 This is where you're going to see all the literature that we have. 179 00:11:46,043 --> 00:11:50,603 You're gonna see these training cards that go over and have all the stuff on there. 180 00:11:50,603 --> 00:11:59,798 You can get these guys, we'll have back to the Bibles, believe the Bibles, everything's going to be out there, and we'll even have framed up the posters of our congregational 181 00:11:59,798 --> 00:12:04,801 model, of the pipeline, or our new circle of life, as I like to think about it. 182 00:12:04,921 --> 00:12:07,122 Because life keeps moving, and we've got to keep moving, too. 183 00:12:07,122 --> 00:12:09,824 We don't have to move fast, just one step at a time. 184 00:12:09,824 --> 00:12:14,466 As long as we are all working together and we can push towards the goal, we're going to get it done. 185 00:12:14,507 --> 00:12:16,608 As Aaron said, I believe we can do this. 186 00:12:16,648 --> 00:12:19,009 If there's a congregation in the world 187 00:12:19,009 --> 00:12:21,181 that can evangelize and grow their numbers, it's us. 188 00:12:21,181 --> 00:12:24,075 Because I know each and every one of you has a heart of gold. 189 00:12:24,075 --> 00:12:29,881 You guys love visitors and love people more than I've ever seen a congregation, even ones that I've visited. 190 00:12:30,222 --> 00:12:33,225 We just need to know how to show it. 191 00:12:35,757 --> 00:12:42,312 So the goal for visitors, they're going to come in, and I know that it's so small, but we're going to identify and we're going to greet them. 192 00:12:42,312 --> 00:12:45,684 By greeting them, we're going to get their information. 193 00:12:46,244 --> 00:12:48,126 We're going to give them a gift bag. 194 00:12:48,126 --> 00:12:53,289 We're going to have the gift bags on the table or next to the table or somewhere in the building. 195 00:12:53,289 --> 00:12:56,902 We haven't decided that yet, but it's going to be available to all members. 196 00:12:56,902 --> 00:12:59,154 They are not going to be behind a locked door. 197 00:12:59,154 --> 00:13:04,333 This way, when a new visitor comes in, you meet them, you greet them, we can give them a gift bag. 198 00:13:04,333 --> 00:13:06,895 It's something very nice, gets a smile in their hand. 199 00:13:06,895 --> 00:13:09,837 Through talking with them, we can fill out the contact card. 200 00:13:09,837 --> 00:13:10,798 You can sit there. 201 00:13:10,798 --> 00:13:15,240 I sat there today and wrote down their information as they talked to me. 202 00:13:15,641 --> 00:13:17,362 It didn't bother them at all. 203 00:13:17,362 --> 00:13:25,288 In fact, we even joked about it whenever I pulled out my iPad and I'm like, here, me write down your name just so I know I don't forget it because I'm notorious for it. 204 00:13:26,149 --> 00:13:29,150 And then eventually we'll move them over onto the prospect list. 205 00:13:29,671 --> 00:13:32,693 It seems like a whole lot until you start. 206 00:13:32,759 --> 00:13:39,235 putting it into bite-sized chunks, and then you realize when looking at the individual pieces of, okay, I can do that. 207 00:13:39,549 --> 00:13:40,307 All right, I can do that. 208 00:13:40,307 --> 00:13:42,269 It's like building a Lego set. 209 00:13:42,269 --> 00:13:43,890 You look at the one piece of direction. 210 00:13:43,890 --> 00:13:47,985 You don't go to page four before you've done page one of your Lego set. 211 00:13:47,985 --> 00:13:50,647 You've got to build the base model first, right? 212 00:13:50,787 --> 00:13:52,789 The boys know more about the Legos. 213 00:13:55,893 --> 00:13:57,394 Next we have Heart to Heart. 214 00:13:58,556 --> 00:13:59,876 We're gonna be able to send this out. 215 00:13:59,876 --> 00:14:01,558 This is a new publication. 216 00:14:01,579 --> 00:14:05,642 He's going to help us get this out to the community. 217 00:14:05,662 --> 00:14:14,311 House to House Heart to Heart has a publication that will be completely, what's the word, customized for this congregation. 218 00:14:14,311 --> 00:14:21,597 So it's gonna have our information on it, our visitation times, link to the website and all that, and we're gonna send that out as well. 219 00:14:24,683 --> 00:14:27,132 Aaron, I think the slides keep getting smaller and smaller. 220 00:14:29,225 --> 00:14:34,949 Our goal is introduce, inform, gain interest, and to invite. 221 00:14:35,910 --> 00:14:37,841 When people come in, we can introduce them. 222 00:14:37,841 --> 00:14:46,177 We can ask them, along with asking them if they want to go to lunch and everything, over the period of time, we can ask them, do you receive house to house, heart to heart? 223 00:14:46,177 --> 00:14:47,668 Have you ever heard of it? 224 00:14:47,668 --> 00:14:50,059 well, I actually happen to have a copy of it right here. 225 00:14:50,059 --> 00:14:50,940 It's great. 226 00:14:50,940 --> 00:14:52,201 There's something good in here. 227 00:14:52,201 --> 00:14:54,503 But it gets our information in their hand. 228 00:14:54,503 --> 00:14:58,585 I'm not sure if we're going to be putting those in the visitor bags or not. 229 00:14:58,591 --> 00:15:05,424 or just mailing them out or giving them out by hand, but we're going to get them in their hands one way or the other. 230 00:15:05,884 --> 00:15:08,865 New movers, again, we're going to get those list of new movers. 231 00:15:08,865 --> 00:15:12,347 We have addresses, we have times of when they moved. 232 00:15:12,447 --> 00:15:15,118 I believe we get the names too of the people that move in. 233 00:15:15,118 --> 00:15:21,301 So we even have their names, we know if they're a family, if they're a single, we get all that information from the metrics. 234 00:15:21,301 --> 00:15:26,953 So when we go, we've done our research, we've done our homework, we know who we're talking to. 235 00:15:27,509 --> 00:15:33,062 And whether it is in an area that says, you know, no soliciting, that's fine. 236 00:15:33,062 --> 00:15:33,863 We're not soliciting. 237 00:15:33,863 --> 00:15:35,273 We're just welcoming our neighbor. 238 00:15:35,273 --> 00:15:46,710 The whole goal of going to the new movers and meeting with them is just to meet them, just to welcome them into the neighborhood, give them the gift basket, let them know that we 239 00:15:46,710 --> 00:15:55,264 are here and that I promise you, we will be the only church that walks up to their door, knocks on that door and gives them a gift. 240 00:15:55,525 --> 00:15:56,247 I think that... 241 00:15:56,247 --> 00:16:00,700 puts our foot in the door way further than anything else that we can do for new movers. 242 00:16:00,700 --> 00:16:07,445 People in the new community, know, back when, you know, and a lot of people, a lot of Christians nowadays still do it. 243 00:16:07,445 --> 00:16:12,467 When we move, typically we try to have a place planned that we're going to go to worship for. 244 00:16:12,467 --> 00:16:13,589 You plan that ahead of time. 245 00:16:13,589 --> 00:16:18,492 You visit around at the congregations and find your new home congregation before you move. 246 00:16:18,492 --> 00:16:23,876 The world's not like that anymore, especially the non-denominational world. 247 00:16:23,876 --> 00:16:26,113 When they move, they have no idea where they're going. 248 00:16:26,113 --> 00:16:29,455 Typically, it's a flavor of the week kind of thing. 249 00:16:29,455 --> 00:16:31,956 They're gonna find wherever they feel most welcome. 250 00:16:31,956 --> 00:16:34,317 Why don't we beat them to the punch this time? 251 00:16:34,338 --> 00:16:40,741 Why don't we go to their front door, give them a gift, welcome them in the neighborhood and say, hey, if you're looking for a place to worship, we're right down the road. 252 00:16:40,741 --> 00:16:41,642 We've got you. 253 00:16:41,642 --> 00:16:47,465 We've shown interest, we've shown care, we've shown love, and we can get them to come. 254 00:16:50,197 --> 00:16:51,799 New movers, again, it's the same thing. 255 00:16:51,799 --> 00:16:55,602 Introduce, inform them with a new mover postcard. 256 00:16:55,603 --> 00:16:59,157 We're gonna give them the new mover basket and we're gonna invite them to come to church with us. 257 00:16:59,157 --> 00:17:00,088 That's it. 258 00:17:00,088 --> 00:17:01,819 We're gonna be friendly to them. 259 00:17:05,473 --> 00:17:08,274 Door knocking reinvented is what Rob calls it. 260 00:17:09,355 --> 00:17:11,596 It's different from normal door knocking. 261 00:17:11,616 --> 00:17:15,853 Now if you've ever been on a door knocking campaign, who's ever been on a door knocking campaign? 262 00:17:15,853 --> 00:17:16,939 Let's raise our hands. 263 00:17:16,939 --> 00:17:20,000 Okay, so quite a few of us, but not all of us have. 264 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:24,082 It's kind of like cold calling if you've ever worked at a call center. 265 00:17:24,082 --> 00:17:25,502 It's hard stuff. 266 00:17:25,503 --> 00:17:27,924 You have no idea who's gonna open up that door. 267 00:17:27,924 --> 00:17:30,945 You have no idea what the reaction is going to be. 268 00:17:33,877 --> 00:17:34,957 It works. 269 00:17:35,578 --> 00:17:38,539 In so many parts of the world, door knocking works. 270 00:17:39,900 --> 00:17:44,622 Our society now, door knocking doesn't seem to be working nearly as well as it used to. 271 00:17:45,103 --> 00:17:46,263 It just doesn't. 272 00:17:46,323 --> 00:17:51,145 We have a society set up that's based on separation. 273 00:17:51,526 --> 00:17:53,786 Who are you or why are you at my door? 274 00:17:53,867 --> 00:17:55,807 Are you here to axe murder me? 275 00:17:56,188 --> 00:17:57,669 I don't know you. 276 00:17:57,669 --> 00:17:59,059 Why are you here? 277 00:17:59,317 --> 00:18:06,799 It's a little different when they've just moved into the area and you're carrying a basket of gifts and say, look, we're just welcoming you to the area. 278 00:18:06,979 --> 00:18:12,141 That's a whole lot different than walking up and inviting somebody to the gospel meeting or to the seminar. 279 00:18:12,141 --> 00:18:13,531 Hey, we're running this seminar. 280 00:18:13,531 --> 00:18:15,222 Okay, well, I didn't ask for that. 281 00:18:15,521 --> 00:18:17,292 It's basically soliciting. 282 00:18:17,292 --> 00:18:26,225 Now, I know soliciting by the letter of the law is trying to sell something and we're not selling, we're giving away, but that's how they look at it. 283 00:18:28,065 --> 00:18:31,647 We've got to be able to know who we're gonna help. 284 00:18:32,007 --> 00:18:35,569 We need to go to them and inform them how we are going to help them. 285 00:18:36,610 --> 00:18:41,873 We need to show them that our purpose is there to help them and be kind and loving. 286 00:18:42,214 --> 00:18:45,516 And then the goal is to show them why we help. 287 00:18:45,516 --> 00:18:49,018 So if we can get them in the building, we've basically won them at that point. 288 00:18:49,018 --> 00:18:49,678 It's game over. 289 00:18:49,678 --> 00:18:51,059 We're gonna get their information. 290 00:18:51,059 --> 00:18:52,820 We're gonna ask them out for lunch. 291 00:18:52,820 --> 00:18:54,379 We're gonna get the Bible study. 292 00:18:54,379 --> 00:18:57,150 It's all a ripple effect and it all starts with the contacts. 293 00:18:57,150 --> 00:18:59,692 It all starts with the door knock and the new movers. 294 00:18:59,692 --> 00:19:05,535 It all starts with asking those prepping questions of, I can't help but notice I haven't seen you here before. 295 00:19:05,535 --> 00:19:06,635 What's your name? 296 00:19:07,766 --> 00:19:09,287 you got a cute little child there. 297 00:19:09,287 --> 00:19:11,918 Just what I did this afternoon, just for practice. 298 00:19:11,918 --> 00:19:17,441 And I did that on purpose because I saw the opportunity and I wanted to show that it works. 299 00:19:21,353 --> 00:19:24,203 invitation cards will be in the baskets. 300 00:19:24,347 --> 00:19:26,333 I'm getting behind on my slides here. 301 00:19:30,529 --> 00:19:34,372 Actually, his slides are different on, interesting. 302 00:19:34,913 --> 00:19:42,479 Okay, so it's good that we have VBS, it's good that we have trunk retreats, it's good that we have benevolence, it's good that we have graduation banquets. 303 00:19:42,479 --> 00:19:47,443 He's not saying, and I'm not saying that these are bad things, these are good things. 304 00:19:47,603 --> 00:19:49,725 But what's the purpose behind doing them? 305 00:19:49,805 --> 00:19:55,870 We've gotta make sure that our purpose for anything that we do from here on out is strictly for evangelism, getting people to come. 306 00:19:56,411 --> 00:19:57,732 What is the Great Commission? 307 00:19:57,732 --> 00:19:59,743 To seek and save the lost, right? 308 00:19:59,969 --> 00:20:01,910 That's what we're supposed to be doing. 309 00:20:02,090 --> 00:20:03,501 It's great that we have a VBS. 310 00:20:03,501 --> 00:20:05,132 It's great that we have a trunk retreat. 311 00:20:05,132 --> 00:20:09,074 But if we're going to have the trunk retreat, we need to figure out how to invite people from the community. 312 00:20:09,074 --> 00:20:14,177 How do we get more people that we don't know than people than we do know? 313 00:20:14,177 --> 00:20:16,318 These are not private shindigs anymore. 314 00:20:16,318 --> 00:20:17,678 They don't need to be. 315 00:20:17,739 --> 00:20:22,041 We need to have people from the community here and we need to evangelize with them. 316 00:20:22,041 --> 00:20:24,882 We need to show them what God's love is for them. 317 00:20:25,223 --> 00:20:26,284 We need to inform them. 318 00:20:26,284 --> 00:20:27,524 We need to show them the purpose. 319 00:20:27,524 --> 00:20:29,259 And again, we need to show them the goal. 320 00:20:29,259 --> 00:20:30,070 It's the same thing. 321 00:20:30,070 --> 00:20:34,193 Again, I know I feel like I'm up here feeling like I'm repeating myself. 322 00:20:34,894 --> 00:20:38,857 You guys who have been to the seminar have seen this, but it's very important. 323 00:20:38,857 --> 00:20:45,862 Every section of this is incredibly crucial, and we're gonna be setting all this up over the next several weeks to months. 324 00:20:46,103 --> 00:20:47,264 Greeting cards. 325 00:20:47,264 --> 00:20:54,429 When we send out the greeting cards to our prospects, I've lost it on here, I'm just gonna go by the slides. 326 00:20:55,551 --> 00:20:59,071 We're gonna send these out for three to four weeks, and they're gonna get, 327 00:20:59,071 --> 00:21:00,541 one greeting card a day. 328 00:21:00,561 --> 00:21:04,973 So when we have a visitor that comes, we're gonna take them out to lunch, we'll talk to them, great. 329 00:21:04,973 --> 00:21:08,384 When they go home, the next day or two, they're gonna receive a card. 330 00:21:08,384 --> 00:21:10,384 The day after that, they're gonna receive a card. 331 00:21:10,384 --> 00:21:12,235 The day after that, they're gonna receive a card. 332 00:21:12,235 --> 00:21:16,466 And we're going to keep doing this for three to four weeks. 333 00:21:16,906 --> 00:21:21,707 He suggests at least doing this for 10 prospects at a time and mail them out evenly. 334 00:21:21,707 --> 00:21:24,998 Put them in the mail every day, one letter. 335 00:21:24,998 --> 00:21:26,929 It's gonna take legwork. 336 00:21:27,029 --> 00:21:28,289 It's not easy. 337 00:21:28,449 --> 00:21:35,963 having to write a letter, sign it, envelope it, put it in the mail, stamp it, and send it off. 338 00:21:37,655 --> 00:21:41,087 Does anybody else get tired of getting junk mail in their mail? 339 00:21:41,588 --> 00:21:42,568 I know I do. 340 00:21:42,568 --> 00:21:45,850 Back in the day, I used to take the junk and I'd send it back to them. 341 00:21:45,851 --> 00:21:50,234 I'd tear it off, I'd leave my name on there, and they always had the little prepaid envelope. 342 00:21:50,234 --> 00:21:55,917 I'd shove it back in the envelope, I'd leave my name on it, and I'd send it back and let them throw their own trash away. 343 00:21:56,278 --> 00:22:02,922 It's totally different, though, when every single day you're getting a card that says, hey, we miss you. 344 00:22:02,922 --> 00:22:04,823 Hey, thanks for coming to our congregation. 345 00:22:04,823 --> 00:22:06,525 It was great speaking to you. 346 00:22:06,525 --> 00:22:07,571 I really hope. 347 00:22:07,571 --> 00:22:10,242 insert line about their family that they told you. 348 00:22:10,562 --> 00:22:14,543 know, hoping and praying that your little one is still doing well. 349 00:22:14,543 --> 00:22:16,284 We can't wait to see her again. 350 00:22:16,284 --> 00:22:17,184 He's there encouraging. 351 00:22:17,184 --> 00:22:17,864 This is great. 352 00:22:17,864 --> 00:22:22,125 Rob goes to people and he sees them literally lining them up on their mantle place. 353 00:22:22,125 --> 00:22:29,367 And then whenever we go to door knock later on and we follow up with them, they go and show them, you guys are the ones that are sending me all these cards. 354 00:22:29,367 --> 00:22:33,428 You you guys came with a new mover basket too a few weeks back. 355 00:22:33,769 --> 00:22:35,433 Four weeks of cards. 356 00:22:35,433 --> 00:22:43,163 a basket with things I needed when I moved, a constant invitation to go out to eat with us, who wouldn't be happy about that? 357 00:22:45,751 --> 00:22:47,442 That's how we get them in the door. 358 00:22:47,462 --> 00:22:50,383 That's how we open up their hearts to a Bible study. 359 00:22:51,565 --> 00:22:53,065 We got to contact. 360 00:22:53,526 --> 00:22:59,409 We got to show them the example that has been set forth, and we have to show them our hearts and compassion towards them. 361 00:23:00,210 --> 00:23:02,771 Another thing we do with prosthetics, we always eat. 362 00:23:04,152 --> 00:23:12,947 He said over and over and over again during the seminar, we have a tradition here that when a new visitor comes in that door, we take you out to eat. 363 00:23:13,409 --> 00:23:16,550 Don't worry about paying, we're gonna take you and your whole family out to eat. 364 00:23:16,850 --> 00:23:19,691 This tradition starts today. 365 00:23:20,151 --> 00:23:25,232 Today, for everyone in here, when we get a visitor in, we invite them to go eat. 366 00:23:25,673 --> 00:23:29,114 If they wanna come over to the house and get homemade cooking, great. 367 00:23:29,114 --> 00:23:31,255 If they don't, take them to a restaurant. 368 00:23:31,255 --> 00:23:36,016 First time's probably better to ask them to a restaurant, that way you're on even ground, public place. 369 00:23:37,296 --> 00:23:39,837 We've gotta invite them out to eat, no one's gonna say no. 370 00:23:40,417 --> 00:23:49,223 But what's better, to have the five minute conversation on the back row with them or as they're walking out the door, or gain an extra hour and a half with them at Chili's and 371 00:23:49,223 --> 00:23:52,024 sit down and open up their hearts and get to know them? 372 00:23:52,225 --> 00:23:54,246 You can get way more data that way. 373 00:23:54,246 --> 00:23:59,249 We can show them how much we care so much more that way by spending time with them. 374 00:24:00,853 --> 00:24:06,960 If we're not willing to spend time with them and getting to know them, why on earth would they want to spend time and get to know us? 375 00:24:08,082 --> 00:24:09,943 It's a give-give relationship. 376 00:24:10,124 --> 00:24:11,766 We've got to be the first ones to give. 377 00:24:11,766 --> 00:24:13,549 We've got to involve them. 378 00:24:13,549 --> 00:24:15,231 We have to investigate them. 379 00:24:15,231 --> 00:24:17,723 And then we have to invest in them. 380 00:24:19,425 --> 00:24:23,678 They're not going to invest time and especially not their hearts if we're not invested in them. 381 00:24:23,678 --> 00:24:28,472 We need to become genuinely interested in what they're about. 382 00:24:28,593 --> 00:24:31,274 And I'm going to tell you right now, sports are not my thing. 383 00:24:31,295 --> 00:24:32,655 Go sports ball. 384 00:24:33,116 --> 00:24:40,662 But I'm telling you, if I have no other way to talk to someone and get to know them, I will learn about sports. 385 00:24:40,702 --> 00:24:42,104 I will ask about the teams. 386 00:24:42,104 --> 00:24:43,525 I will be inquisitive. 387 00:24:43,525 --> 00:24:44,265 And you know what? 388 00:24:44,265 --> 00:24:45,966 What better teacher than them? 389 00:24:45,967 --> 00:24:49,121 If they love it and they want to talk about it, and I promise they'll talk about it. 390 00:24:49,121 --> 00:24:50,482 They'll teach me. 391 00:24:50,743 --> 00:24:54,208 And that gets almost a teacher-student relationship at that point. 392 00:24:54,208 --> 00:24:55,210 They'll be happy about it. 393 00:24:55,210 --> 00:24:56,291 They'll be smiling about it. 394 00:24:56,291 --> 00:25:03,531 Whatever it is, wood carving, mechanic work, sports, we need to show interest. 395 00:25:05,621 --> 00:25:10,144 One of the best speakers out there isn't a speaker, but one who listens. 396 00:25:11,106 --> 00:25:14,308 The more we listen to them, the more we can learn. 397 00:25:14,449 --> 00:25:22,955 And some of the best conversations I've had throughout my life are ones where, and I'm bad at this sometimes, I'm just as bad, I like to talk. 398 00:25:23,917 --> 00:25:25,498 Don't nod your head, Jacob. 399 00:25:25,498 --> 00:25:26,959 He goes, yeah. 400 00:25:27,540 --> 00:25:32,904 Some of the best conversations I've had is when I've just kept my mouth shut and just asked questions about them. 401 00:25:33,285 --> 00:25:34,141 Everyone, 402 00:25:34,141 --> 00:25:36,046 loves to talk about themselves. 403 00:25:36,046 --> 00:25:40,153 And me growing up, I wanted to talk to my parents about everything that happened in my life. 404 00:25:40,656 --> 00:25:43,600 I wanted to share that with my friends now, even today. 405 00:25:43,762 --> 00:25:45,505 I'm itching for that. 406 00:25:47,799 --> 00:25:54,073 communication, that connection with other people, and I know they are out in the world too. 407 00:25:54,534 --> 00:26:00,057 Why would we deprive them of that connection by talking about ourselves when we can just sit and listen? 408 00:26:00,198 --> 00:26:04,980 We can be an ear for them and an outlet, and that's going to endear them to us. 409 00:26:05,741 --> 00:26:08,323 Love thy neighbor, what? 410 00:26:09,344 --> 00:26:10,724 Love thyself. 411 00:26:11,225 --> 00:26:17,109 If I feel that way and I want to share parts of my life with people to show that I care, 412 00:26:17,451 --> 00:26:18,945 Wouldn't they also? 413 00:26:19,301 --> 00:26:20,593 Of course they would. 414 00:26:23,169 --> 00:26:24,790 Home is where you find it. 415 00:26:25,030 --> 00:26:26,231 Home hosts. 416 00:26:26,231 --> 00:26:36,316 Now he showed this picture and one of the things that he brought to attention was that every member in there used to be of a different denomination. 417 00:26:36,476 --> 00:26:41,079 You had Muslim, you had Catholic, you had Protestant, you had... 418 00:26:42,500 --> 00:26:44,260 insert denomination there. 419 00:26:44,361 --> 00:26:47,702 But everyone in the home in this picture are all Christians. 420 00:26:48,363 --> 00:26:52,093 They were all baptized and changed because they were invited out to eat. 421 00:26:52,093 --> 00:26:55,255 were invited into the home, they came and visited. 422 00:26:56,176 --> 00:27:00,399 It works because they got involved with the people. 423 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:01,811 They learned to love them. 424 00:27:01,811 --> 00:27:07,666 They took time to learn about them, and they taught them the gospel of Jesus Christ. 425 00:27:07,666 --> 00:27:17,954 The whole purpose of this isn't the opening statement—let me say this—the opening statement is to get to know them, because once we get to know them, they will naturally 426 00:27:17,954 --> 00:27:19,275 want to get to know us. 427 00:27:19,275 --> 00:27:22,057 They'll want to know why such an interest. 428 00:27:22,081 --> 00:27:23,561 Why do you care? 429 00:27:23,641 --> 00:27:32,304 No one else in the world asks me all these questions and takes me out to eat and sends me postcards every single day for four weeks at a time. 430 00:27:32,304 --> 00:27:34,804 Why do you care so much? 431 00:27:35,165 --> 00:27:37,265 You guys know what Rob would answer, right? 432 00:27:37,305 --> 00:27:39,806 I happen to have these three little booklets. 433 00:27:41,486 --> 00:27:43,647 The whole point is to point them towards the cross. 434 00:27:43,647 --> 00:27:44,477 Why do I care? 435 00:27:44,477 --> 00:27:46,788 Because Christ first cared for me. 436 00:27:47,268 --> 00:27:52,049 And I was eventually, I was started out in the same position wondering why. 437 00:27:52,929 --> 00:27:55,170 Why did my God come to earth? 438 00:27:55,451 --> 00:27:57,192 Why did he become a man? 439 00:27:57,213 --> 00:28:02,076 Why did he suffer on that cross and die for me, a lowly sinner? 440 00:28:02,437 --> 00:28:09,109 Because he cared and I can love because Christ first loved me. 441 00:28:09,109 --> 00:28:13,085 That's the whole point is driving them to the cross. 442 00:28:13,546 --> 00:28:16,508 And we're not going to do that without doing it in steps. 443 00:28:16,629 --> 00:28:17,609 Christ did it. 444 00:28:17,609 --> 00:28:19,130 The apostles did it. 445 00:28:19,311 --> 00:28:22,483 He always showed care and love for them. 446 00:28:24,011 --> 00:28:25,318 and taught them the gospel. 447 00:28:27,539 --> 00:28:31,630 eventually we'll get Bible studies because they're going to want to know more. 448 00:28:31,851 --> 00:28:34,232 They're going to be asking, why do you care? 449 00:28:34,232 --> 00:28:39,534 Well, because of these three little booklets which point us back to the Bible and back to the cross. 450 00:28:39,534 --> 00:28:41,835 We're going to have these on the evangelism table. 451 00:28:41,835 --> 00:28:44,836 It will look somewhat different than what we have in the picture here. 452 00:28:44,956 --> 00:28:54,260 We're either going to set it up in the back of the foyer underneath the, as you're exiting, the right coat rack or more than likely probably right on the corner there where 453 00:28:54,260 --> 00:28:57,301 we currently have the the donation table. 454 00:28:57,325 --> 00:28:58,466 for the children's home. 455 00:28:58,466 --> 00:29:08,391 We may scoot that down a bit, we all know where that's at, but that gives us a nice central location and that way the sunlight too won't fade all of the paperwork that are 456 00:29:08,391 --> 00:29:09,752 there sitting on the table. 457 00:29:09,752 --> 00:29:15,455 Which, I'm just gonna say, even if we do put it in that table, I better not see any fading on that paperwork. 458 00:29:15,455 --> 00:29:19,117 I want that stuff to be used, it needs to be utilized. 459 00:29:19,177 --> 00:29:26,641 If it sits there so long that the words are starting to get hard to see and the colors are starting to fade, we're not doing our job. 460 00:29:27,607 --> 00:29:29,678 and then shame on us and shame on me. 461 00:29:30,298 --> 00:29:31,929 We gotta be picking this stuff up and using it. 462 00:29:31,929 --> 00:29:34,640 We need to be replenishing that table constantly. 463 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:35,961 It needs to be a fight. 464 00:29:35,961 --> 00:29:40,442 Because if we're not replenishing that table, we're not replenishing souls into God's kingdom either, are we? 465 00:29:41,043 --> 00:29:42,583 We're not putting in the work. 466 00:29:43,664 --> 00:29:47,385 And it all starts with 10 names. 467 00:29:47,877 --> 00:29:48,476 It's not hard. 468 00:29:48,476 --> 00:29:50,417 It's not revolutionary. 469 00:29:50,417 --> 00:29:52,637 10 people you care about, 10 people you heard about. 470 00:29:52,637 --> 00:29:56,679 But we're gonna try to reach those souls because they need it. 471 00:29:58,113 --> 00:29:59,473 We purchased the material. 472 00:29:59,473 --> 00:30:01,454 We have a place for it all to be set up. 473 00:30:01,454 --> 00:30:08,896 It's gonna be presented out there and we're gonna go over and train you guys on every aspect of the table so you know what all the pieces do. 474 00:30:08,896 --> 00:30:13,097 We have training cards that I will eventually go over with you for all these steps. 475 00:30:13,097 --> 00:30:15,258 This is just training card one. 476 00:30:15,258 --> 00:30:17,499 Now this is the big overview again. 477 00:30:17,499 --> 00:30:19,099 They're not all going to be this in depth. 478 00:30:19,099 --> 00:30:21,219 Lots of them are going to be shorter than this. 479 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,120 But it's all in pieces. 480 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:26,631 We will get there together, but we need to work together to get it done. 481 00:30:27,649 --> 00:30:28,849 And then we need to preserve them. 482 00:30:28,849 --> 00:30:31,631 We're gonna assign someone to take care of the table. 483 00:30:31,691 --> 00:30:33,672 They're gonna restock it. 484 00:30:33,672 --> 00:30:34,932 So the rest of you don't have to worry. 485 00:30:34,932 --> 00:30:38,494 Everyone's going to have their piece in the machine. 486 00:30:38,494 --> 00:30:43,626 So just like a watch is made up of all kinds of several gears, you've got a big gear over here that does the hour. 487 00:30:43,626 --> 00:30:46,037 You have a gear that runs the little hand. 488 00:30:46,037 --> 00:30:48,538 You have a gear over here that does the date. 489 00:30:48,538 --> 00:30:49,509 It's the same thing. 490 00:30:49,509 --> 00:30:52,700 That gear that runs the date is not concerned with the minute. 491 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:54,761 It's concerned only with the day. 492 00:30:55,233 --> 00:30:58,025 We all have a part to play and we're going to get those assigned. 493 00:30:58,025 --> 00:30:59,956 Bible studies, basic training. 494 00:31:00,417 --> 00:31:05,720 After we finish our study through John, we will be going through back to the Bible. 495 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:14,146 Now we've got to leg up on this a little bit because before this seminar happened, I've been going through and trying to teach on Sunday evenings, believe the Bible. 496 00:31:14,146 --> 00:31:15,547 You should be well equipped. 497 00:31:15,547 --> 00:31:20,630 You should know these believe the Bibles and you should know the back to the Bible by the time we're done with this. 498 00:31:20,630 --> 00:31:24,573 I highly, highly suggest, I cannot suggest enough that 499 00:31:24,573 --> 00:31:31,135 everyone in here finishes back to the Bible all three booklets on their own. 500 00:31:31,135 --> 00:31:41,167 Outside of worship, we need to do them ourselves because we're not going to ask visitors or people that we want to have a Bible study with to do something that we're not willing 501 00:31:41,167 --> 00:31:42,778 to do ourselves, right? 502 00:31:43,178 --> 00:31:44,998 We need to be the examples. 503 00:31:45,839 --> 00:31:46,699 We can get through it. 504 00:31:46,699 --> 00:31:47,559 It's very easy. 505 00:31:47,559 --> 00:31:49,540 It's simply a question. 506 00:31:49,580 --> 00:31:53,281 It tells you where the Bible verse is, and then it says, what does the verse say? 507 00:31:53,281 --> 00:31:54,241 It's fill in the blank. 508 00:31:54,241 --> 00:31:55,362 the whole thing. 509 00:31:55,362 --> 00:31:56,943 It doesn't get any simpler than that. 510 00:31:56,943 --> 00:32:00,967 It's a self-made study, but we're going to go through. 511 00:32:00,967 --> 00:32:06,731 We're going to assemble you guys together, we're going to teach you, and we're going to go through all the back to the Bible to arm you for this. 512 00:32:06,731 --> 00:32:08,832 That way you're well acquainted with it. 513 00:32:08,833 --> 00:32:10,297 You're going to know the ins and the outs. 514 00:32:10,297 --> 00:32:12,156 You're going to know how to address the questions. 515 00:32:12,156 --> 00:32:17,640 There are some that need to be focused on a little more than others while going through the study of back to the Bible. 516 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:23,905 There are key questions to ask, like when it says, when you're supposed to partake of the Lord's Supper. 517 00:32:23,905 --> 00:32:25,487 That's one you need to take. 518 00:32:25,487 --> 00:32:30,983 You can do back and forth reading through the books, but when you get to that section, you need to ask, hold on, do you mind if I get this one? 519 00:32:30,983 --> 00:32:33,076 I know it's supposed to be your turn, but I like this one. 520 00:32:33,076 --> 00:32:34,998 I try to do it off memory. 521 00:32:34,998 --> 00:32:41,536 Every second Thursday of the month, every Friday of the year, so on and so forth. 522 00:32:41,536 --> 00:32:43,328 You're getting them to correct you. 523 00:32:43,328 --> 00:32:44,709 We're gonna teach you that. 524 00:32:46,433 --> 00:32:48,174 Then we have advanced training. 525 00:32:48,375 --> 00:32:50,676 We'll eventually go through fishers of men. 526 00:32:50,697 --> 00:32:54,400 For the ladies, we have this great book out here that should be on the back table. 527 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:57,262 If it's not on the back table, we will have the resource available for you. 528 00:32:57,262 --> 00:32:59,724 This is recipes for evangelism. 529 00:32:59,964 --> 00:33:03,507 When we invite people to eat, we gotta know what to cook, don't we? 530 00:33:03,628 --> 00:33:07,130 Not just the ladies, the men, if you cook, I know I cook from time to time. 531 00:33:07,130 --> 00:33:10,553 I'm gonna be making stew tomorrow night for a family that's coming over to my house. 532 00:33:11,694 --> 00:33:13,656 I looked up a great stew recipe. 533 00:33:13,656 --> 00:33:15,497 I'm gonna follow that recipe. 534 00:33:16,257 --> 00:33:17,917 This has it in there for you. 535 00:33:18,098 --> 00:33:23,180 Another one we're gonna go through after we went through the back to the Bible is how to close the study. 536 00:33:23,180 --> 00:33:24,860 You gotta know how to finish it. 537 00:33:25,041 --> 00:33:30,923 What happens when you finish the last book, the third book, and they're not ready to be baptized yet? 538 00:33:31,503 --> 00:33:33,844 Are you just gonna throw your hands up in the air and give up? 539 00:33:34,224 --> 00:33:38,166 No, we have to know how to close the study. 540 00:33:38,166 --> 00:33:43,128 We have to know how to keep going after that, how to keep talking with them, how to keep pursuing. 541 00:33:43,568 --> 00:33:45,919 When we get these visitors, these prospects, 542 00:33:45,919 --> 00:33:48,129 as it's called on these slides. 543 00:33:48,150 --> 00:33:52,891 When we get the people we love in our sights, we need to be trained on them. 544 00:33:52,911 --> 00:33:55,311 And we're not gonna stop until we reach our goal. 545 00:33:56,312 --> 00:34:01,953 You ever sat there and tried to run forward while you're looking back over your shoulder? 546 00:34:02,434 --> 00:34:04,914 It be real hard to run forward, isn't it? 547 00:34:05,374 --> 00:34:13,156 We have got to focus on that finish line one step at a time, no matter how hard it gets, just like a relay race. 548 00:34:13,349 --> 00:34:15,149 You're not gonna finish the race all at once. 549 00:34:15,149 --> 00:34:16,469 Again, this is a lot. 550 00:34:16,469 --> 00:34:19,149 We're gonna break it down into tiny little bite-sized chunks. 551 00:34:19,149 --> 00:34:22,649 It's gonna take us a while to get this all set up, but we will. 552 00:34:23,569 --> 00:34:26,749 Kitchen table Bible studies, you guys are gonna be conducting those. 553 00:34:27,089 --> 00:34:30,589 Not everyone is fit to do a Bible study, that's okay. 554 00:34:31,589 --> 00:34:35,749 Not everybody's the best at welcoming visitors, that's okay. 555 00:34:36,029 --> 00:34:40,189 Not everybody's the best at sending out greeting cards, I know I'm not. 556 00:34:40,749 --> 00:34:44,729 I've got terrible spelling, that's okay. 557 00:34:45,047 --> 00:34:50,199 We all have a part to play and we all got going to be assigned to these positions. 558 00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:57,983 That's why we had you fill out that survey so we can better choose who to get where because we want you in somewhere where you're comfortable, somewhere where you can go. 559 00:34:57,983 --> 00:34:59,724 But we don't need to get too comfy. 560 00:34:59,724 --> 00:35:01,724 We need to make sure we're still working. 561 00:35:01,905 --> 00:35:03,015 We can't stop. 562 00:35:04,777 --> 00:35:05,577 other Bible studies. 563 00:35:05,577 --> 00:35:07,218 We've already been through Believe the Bible. 564 00:35:07,218 --> 00:35:09,019 We're also going to teach Does It Matter? 565 00:35:09,019 --> 00:35:14,172 What happens when you get somebody that says, okay, I'll give you a Bible study, but you got one hour and that's it. 566 00:35:14,172 --> 00:35:15,893 I'm not giving you another Bible study, just the one. 567 00:35:15,893 --> 00:35:20,305 Are you going to try to slam all three back to the Bibles in one study? 568 00:35:20,846 --> 00:35:21,806 No. 569 00:35:22,066 --> 00:35:24,147 We're going to teach you how to use Does It Matter? 570 00:35:24,368 --> 00:35:25,828 Time is of the essence. 571 00:35:25,828 --> 00:35:26,909 You need to get it done. 572 00:35:26,909 --> 00:35:28,309 You have one hour. 573 00:35:28,330 --> 00:35:29,550 Does it matter? 574 00:35:30,511 --> 00:35:31,011 Same thing. 575 00:35:31,011 --> 00:35:33,792 It's a condensed version of the three back to the Bibles. 576 00:35:33,913 --> 00:35:34,743 Very quick. 577 00:35:34,743 --> 00:35:36,814 We also have these in multiple languages. 578 00:35:37,295 --> 00:35:38,775 We have them in Spanish. 579 00:35:39,656 --> 00:35:40,827 I'm working on them right now. 580 00:35:40,827 --> 00:35:43,009 Rob sent them over and I'm going to try to get them in booklet form. 581 00:35:43,009 --> 00:35:45,253 We're going to take them over to Japan next time we go. 582 00:35:45,253 --> 00:35:46,881 We're have them in Japanese. 583 00:35:47,422 --> 00:35:49,443 We can get them in any language we need. 584 00:35:50,464 --> 00:35:54,966 The next step you'll see on your card, the red one, baptisms. 585 00:35:55,987 --> 00:35:57,268 We need to be ready. 586 00:35:58,349 --> 00:36:04,673 If we have our goal being to get baptisms and grow our church, 587 00:36:05,345 --> 00:36:11,989 That needs to be something we're focused on, Not only does it need to be something focused on, we can't have a defeatist attitude about it. 588 00:36:12,450 --> 00:36:16,732 We just went through and cleaned up that back room and made it a lot cleaner. 589 00:36:17,293 --> 00:36:20,395 We didn't do it because we were just spring cleaning the building. 590 00:36:20,675 --> 00:36:23,417 We did it because our goal is to get it used. 591 00:36:23,757 --> 00:36:24,788 We don't want it empty. 592 00:36:24,788 --> 00:36:27,740 We don't want it full of cobwebs because it's going to be used. 593 00:36:27,740 --> 00:36:30,582 Baptismal garments, we're gonna get new ones. 594 00:36:30,662 --> 00:36:31,413 It's gonna be clean. 595 00:36:31,413 --> 00:36:32,703 It's gonna be ready. 596 00:36:33,424 --> 00:36:35,317 And that's the first step is readiness. 597 00:36:35,317 --> 00:36:38,185 If we're not ready to get baptisms, how are we going to baptize people? 598 00:36:41,325 --> 00:36:42,566 We're going to record it. 599 00:36:43,549 --> 00:36:52,775 Any chance we can, whether it's in a lake or here in this baptist tree, anywhere we have a baptism for this church, we're going to record it. 600 00:36:54,999 --> 00:36:58,358 There's a time to weep with each other and there's a time of joy for each other. 601 00:36:58,358 --> 00:36:59,800 We're supposed to... 602 00:37:01,933 --> 00:37:03,533 Plubbing up all my words here. 603 00:37:04,374 --> 00:37:07,945 We gotta be happy for each other and we're gonna rejoice together whenever we have a baptism. 604 00:37:07,945 --> 00:37:12,936 There's nothing greater than rejoicing in bringing a lost person back to Christ. 605 00:37:12,936 --> 00:37:21,899 If we threw $3 million and was only able to baptize one soul, forget the metrics for a second. 606 00:37:21,899 --> 00:37:22,969 I know that we have the metrics. 607 00:37:22,969 --> 00:37:25,480 We have the goal of doing six to 10 baptism a year. 608 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:26,620 That's great. 609 00:37:26,620 --> 00:37:27,580 Numbers are good. 610 00:37:27,580 --> 00:37:29,161 But what happens if we only get one? 611 00:37:29,161 --> 00:37:31,179 It's just as good as if we got six. 612 00:37:31,179 --> 00:37:32,594 What's the worth of a soul? 613 00:37:34,473 --> 00:37:36,694 infinitely more than this world can hold. 614 00:37:37,095 --> 00:37:39,617 One soul is a fantastic victory. 615 00:37:39,878 --> 00:37:44,121 So if we don't see the metrics grow as fast as we want, don't get disheartened. 616 00:37:44,421 --> 00:37:46,323 Every one is a fantastic victory. 617 00:37:46,323 --> 00:37:49,505 And if it takes two more years to get another one, we're going to get it. 618 00:37:49,546 --> 00:37:51,306 We're not going to quit stopping. 619 00:37:51,867 --> 00:37:55,790 Think about how much that soul means to God. 620 00:37:56,051 --> 00:38:04,037 Think more about the fact of how much that means to that soul that we didn't give up, that we didn't quit trying. 621 00:38:04,449 --> 00:38:06,796 that we kept on with the faith and kept on with the work. 622 00:38:06,796 --> 00:38:11,148 It's going to mean everything to them when eternity comes. 623 00:38:14,527 --> 00:38:18,789 Every time we get a baptism, not only are we going to record it, but we're going to give them a new Bible. 624 00:38:22,049 --> 00:38:25,490 I will even be willing to custom engrave it with their name. 625 00:38:26,471 --> 00:38:27,651 Not going to charge for it. 626 00:38:27,651 --> 00:38:28,832 Just want to do it. 627 00:38:28,972 --> 00:38:30,793 If we want to order them and get them stamped, great. 628 00:38:30,793 --> 00:38:33,754 If we want to save money and do it that way, I can do it. 629 00:38:33,754 --> 00:38:38,036 But we're going to give them a Bible, brand new, and we're going to personalize it. 630 00:38:38,036 --> 00:38:48,000 Whether it's stamped, laser engraved, whatever, we want to put the Word of God in their hand and give them the tools they need to succeed, much like Rob has given us the tools to 631 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,781 succeed now with this congregational plan. 632 00:38:53,811 --> 00:38:56,723 After that, we're going to enroll them in the new converts class. 633 00:38:57,364 --> 00:38:58,946 We got to teach our new converts. 634 00:38:58,946 --> 00:39:01,868 We have a book to go through called Growing in Christ. 635 00:39:01,868 --> 00:39:05,190 There's another one, the acts work book. 636 00:39:05,411 --> 00:39:11,236 We're going to teach them all the basics because we know the gospel plan of salvation. 637 00:39:11,236 --> 00:39:12,897 We've got them baptized. 638 00:39:12,897 --> 00:39:14,558 They're in a safe state. 639 00:39:15,099 --> 00:39:17,081 We want to make sure they don't fall back. 640 00:39:17,081 --> 00:39:19,162 We don't just dunk them and leave them. 641 00:39:19,923 --> 00:39:22,365 They need a good supporting structure. 642 00:39:23,065 --> 00:39:27,945 Unless you have a great foundation, a skyscraper is not going to keep standing, is it? 643 00:39:27,945 --> 00:39:31,352 It's going to topple over once it gets too tight, too many floors. 644 00:39:31,352 --> 00:39:43,621 They need us to be their foundation, and they need their foundation, us, to be centered on the Word of God so that theirs is the Word 645 00:39:46,157 --> 00:39:47,457 We've got to teach them. 646 00:39:47,598 --> 00:39:54,702 We've got to connect them with each other because our new converts are going to grow together and they're going to help support each other as well. 647 00:39:55,684 --> 00:39:56,904 And then what happens? 648 00:39:56,904 --> 00:39:58,566 We go full circle again. 649 00:39:58,566 --> 00:40:06,111 All of those now start being taught the same congregational model, going through all the steps slowly, and they're going to bring in contacts. 650 00:40:06,111 --> 00:40:07,672 Contacts become prospects. 651 00:40:07,672 --> 00:40:09,143 Prospects become Bible studies. 652 00:40:09,143 --> 00:40:10,714 Bible studies become baptisms. 653 00:40:10,714 --> 00:40:12,455 Baptisms become new converts. 654 00:40:12,455 --> 00:40:15,937 And new converts give us more contacts. 655 00:40:15,979 --> 00:40:17,084 and we'll grow that. 656 00:40:18,655 --> 00:40:21,404 Member mentoring is going to be a big step. 657 00:40:23,917 --> 00:40:26,837 I know in this church we don't have a problem with that. 658 00:40:26,837 --> 00:40:29,457 In this church, everybody's family, and that's great. 659 00:40:29,657 --> 00:40:33,637 We need to make sure we keep treating the new ones in here the same way. 660 00:40:36,589 --> 00:40:38,970 We're gonna go through compassion card troubleshooting. 661 00:40:40,251 --> 00:40:44,814 I'm gonna also teach you guys, did everybody get the email reaching the lost? 662 00:40:44,814 --> 00:40:49,015 Raise your hand if you did not receive the email reaching the lost in the past week. 663 00:40:49,636 --> 00:40:50,576 Okay. 664 00:40:51,217 --> 00:40:53,358 Okay, if you didn't, come see me after. 665 00:40:53,358 --> 00:40:56,360 I'll get your email and we'll get that to Rob and get it sent out to you. 666 00:40:56,360 --> 00:41:00,982 That's the newsletter update that's gonna keep coming through and we're gonna get you guys set up with that. 667 00:41:00,982 --> 00:41:04,384 We're also going to give you access to the curriculum. 668 00:41:04,384 --> 00:41:06,029 It's the same curriculum I have. 669 00:41:06,029 --> 00:41:07,890 It's the same curriculum Aaron has. 670 00:41:07,890 --> 00:41:13,251 So if you want to know more about your specific role when you get the role, you have it all right there. 671 00:41:13,251 --> 00:41:17,652 There's nothing that I will tell you that's not in this website that will teach you. 672 00:41:17,652 --> 00:41:19,372 It's easy to navigate. 673 00:41:19,473 --> 00:41:29,996 You've got sections over on the left-hand side, contacts, prospects, Bible studies, new converts, all the way around the congregational model. 674 00:41:29,996 --> 00:41:31,096 And all you do is click it. 675 00:41:31,096 --> 00:41:32,476 It's got a drop-down menu. 676 00:41:32,476 --> 00:41:33,697 You find your section. 677 00:41:33,697 --> 00:41:35,723 It'll tell you all about what's to be done. 678 00:41:35,723 --> 00:41:36,914 and what's needed. 679 00:41:37,456 --> 00:41:38,698 We all have access to this. 680 00:41:38,698 --> 00:41:40,501 We're all going to learn from this. 681 00:41:42,913 --> 00:41:46,035 We have a recommended training and preaching schedule. 682 00:41:46,035 --> 00:41:47,815 That's what we're following right now. 683 00:41:48,116 --> 00:41:53,939 This morning, Aaron started us out with John chapter one, or not John chapter one, John four. 684 00:41:54,739 --> 00:41:58,641 The first section of John chapter four, it's a three part series. 685 00:41:59,882 --> 00:42:03,204 I'm going through the model right now, the review. 686 00:42:03,704 --> 00:42:07,666 There's nothing you haven't seen before if you came to the seminars, but it's good to have a touch up. 687 00:42:07,666 --> 00:42:08,747 It's a lot. 688 00:42:08,887 --> 00:42:10,828 It's still a lot, but we're gonna go through. 689 00:42:10,828 --> 00:42:12,833 It may not be every single week. 690 00:42:12,833 --> 00:42:18,506 We, some weeks we may not be able to follow it perfectly, but we're going to keep making progress. 691 00:42:18,528 --> 00:42:22,887 If we keep making progress, just like any job, you're going to reach your goal. 692 00:42:24,427 --> 00:42:25,698 We have a checklist. 693 00:42:25,698 --> 00:42:28,050 I have this digitized on my iPad right now. 694 00:42:28,050 --> 00:42:29,681 I'm going through the initial setup. 695 00:42:29,681 --> 00:42:32,243 We're gonna go and teach you guys about the evangelism table. 696 00:42:32,243 --> 00:42:34,205 We're gonna teach you about contact cards. 697 00:42:34,205 --> 00:42:35,786 We're gonna go through back to the Bible. 698 00:42:35,786 --> 00:42:45,494 There's a lot of different things, and we're gonna be doing that over the next several months, slowly but surely, until we have all the pieces in place to build our watch. 699 00:42:46,095 --> 00:42:47,436 And then we can all work. 700 00:42:47,436 --> 00:42:52,359 We're going to be the membership that powers the batteries of said watch, and we're gonna watch it tick. 701 00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:54,357 And every second that ticks. 702 00:42:54,357 --> 00:42:56,078 It's gonna get closer to a baptism. 703 00:42:56,078 --> 00:42:58,160 I promise you, I know it's gonna work. 704 00:42:59,441 --> 00:43:00,762 I've seen it work. 705 00:43:02,023 --> 00:43:03,904 This here is our... 706 00:43:06,859 --> 00:43:09,411 our evangelism model, like assignment roster. 707 00:43:09,411 --> 00:43:11,233 I have this also digitized. 708 00:43:11,233 --> 00:43:20,100 This is to where I can keep up with who has what assignment, what you're doing, and I'm gonna try to oversee as much as humanly possible. 709 00:43:20,100 --> 00:43:28,086 I can't do it all myself, so I'm gonna rely a lot on all the members here, but I need your participation, I need your help. 710 00:43:28,607 --> 00:43:34,472 We're gonna get people assigned, we're gonna get weekly or bi-weekly updates on how things are going. 711 00:43:34,964 --> 00:43:37,355 If you have new prospects, contact list, bring them to me. 712 00:43:37,355 --> 00:43:39,626 We're gonna get them there where they need to go. 713 00:43:39,826 --> 00:43:42,287 Does everybody see kind of how this all works? 714 00:43:42,287 --> 00:43:43,828 It's just a big circle. 715 00:43:44,048 --> 00:43:45,489 It's a lot to do. 716 00:43:45,489 --> 00:43:52,652 There's a lot of parts and pieces, but all we have to do is slowly make it around the circle, just like running a relay race. 717 00:43:52,692 --> 00:43:57,454 And when every time we make it around the circle, we get a new baptism or two sometimes. 718 00:43:57,694 --> 00:43:59,335 We can increase our numbers. 719 00:43:59,735 --> 00:44:02,430 There's no doubt in my mind that we can reach that six to 10. 720 00:44:02,720 --> 00:44:07,942 But even if we don't, the worth of even reaching one makes every single bit of this worth. 721 00:44:11,318 --> 00:44:15,289 So again, what I want you to do is your bookmark. 722 00:44:15,470 --> 00:44:17,390 want everybody to have a bookmark. 723 00:44:17,731 --> 00:44:22,713 And I'm going to go around over the next couple of weeks and I'm going to ask you, do you have your bookmark? 724 00:44:22,873 --> 00:44:29,686 And if you do not have a bookmark on your person, I will have a bookmark to hand to you because I want it on your person. 725 00:44:29,686 --> 00:44:34,298 If I see you out in town, I'm going to ask you, do you have your bookmark? 726 00:44:34,558 --> 00:44:36,739 I will give you a pass if it's in the car. 727 00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:39,180 I want 10 names. 728 00:44:39,264 --> 00:44:40,497 We can all put 10 names on here. 729 00:44:40,497 --> 00:44:41,510 We're just getting started. 730 00:44:41,510 --> 00:44:42,352 That's all. 731 00:44:42,352 --> 00:44:43,997 Just 10 names for the week. 732 00:44:43,997 --> 00:44:44,387 That's it. 733 00:44:44,387 --> 00:44:45,780 Think of it like homework. 734 00:44:47,936 --> 00:44:49,702 I can't think of it like homework, not myself. 735 00:44:49,702 --> 00:44:51,064 I love it too much. 736 00:44:51,548 --> 00:44:53,633 Because we're reaching people we care about. 737 00:44:53,956 --> 00:44:55,529 We're saving lost souls. 738 00:44:59,254 --> 00:45:01,927 We still have the invitation open for anybody that needs it. 739 00:45:02,269 --> 00:45:12,424 If you haven't been reaching the lost, you found yourself not caring, if you found yourself growing apathetic towards God's work, you need prayers. 740 00:45:14,689 --> 00:45:21,503 you need anything, anything we can pray for you for, or you simply want to put on Christ in baptism tonight, we have that open for you now. 741 00:45:21,705 --> 00:45:24,032 And we'll help you out however we can as we stand and as we sing.