Need Oriented Evangelism

Recently, I have read some really disturbing statistics. 95% of all Christians have never won a soul to Christ.80% of all Christians do not consistently witness for Christ.47% of Millennials believe sharing your faith is wrong. 63% of the leadership of one denomination studied did not lead one stranger to Jesus in the last two years.96% of the leadership believe their churches would have grown faster if they would have been more involved in evangelism.There is no wonder why evangelism, or lack there of in our churches and among our pastors and leaders is a major reason why so many churches are plateaued or declining in America. So what do we do about it? Today, as we continue to think through different marks of a healthy church over these episodes, we want to discuss the issue of evangelism, and specifically Need Oriented Evangelism. We are defining need oriented evangelism as evangelism that isn’t “pushy” or “manipulative” in the way they share the gospel, rather their secret is to sh