Youtube Video MP3 Podcast Chapters 00:00 The Authority of Jesus and Evangelism08:35 Qualifications for Evangelism: Love, Motivation, and Knowledge11:43 Overcoming Fear and Excuses in Evangelism14:37 The Status Quo of Evangelism: Inviting to the Building17:31 Starting Conversations and Setting Bible Studies20:37 The Power of Questions in Evangelism23:38 Developing Interest and Curiosity in Spiritual Conversations26:41 Practical Approaches to Evangelism29:28 The Harvest is Ripe: A Call to Action Transcript Lance Mosher (00:00)Brethren, perhaps you’ve heard of the 80-20 statistic, perhaps the 90-10 statistic. That is 80 % of an organization’s work is done by 20 % of the people or maybe 90 % of the work is done by 10 % of the people. We are the body of Christ and that should not be the case in the body of Christ. Yet we often see it, don’t we? But we need to remember that we are not in an organization. We are an organism. We are the body of Christ working together for the growth of the kingdom, the building up of the saints. Yet most of us do see it in the local congregation that the preacher ends up doing the elders work. Well, the elders do the deacons work. The deacons don’t know what they’re doing. So the members simply warm the pew. What’s the size of your local congregation? I imagine we have the whole spectrum represented here. You’ve got hundreds. Some of you have less than 50. let’s do a preacher’s count. Yeah, there are 100 people here