Every Member Evangelism by J.E. Conant

• Title Page
• Introduction
• The Divine Program
  • Scripture Exposition
    • The Program Unfolded
    • The Program Illustrated
    • The Program Perpetuated
  • Practical Application
    • We Must Go Individually
    • We Must Go Systematically
  • Satanic Opposition
    • How Satan Hindered the Divine Program
    • How Satan Keeps the Divine Program Hindered
• The Divine Purpose
• The Divine Power
• Every-Member Evangelism in Operation

passage that has any bearing on the mission of the Church. This defines with the utmost clearness what the Lord’s Program for his Church is.

The Program Illustrated

The next thing we want to know is whether the Lord has given us a historical illustration of this Program actually at work, and we do not need to look far to find one. For the Holy Spirit gave us the pattern of the manner in which this Program is to be carried out in the events immediately surrounding the Day of Pentecost. These events were the divinely executed pattern of what the Lord purposed to keep doing through the Church during the whole Church Age. To find the divine significance of these events, therefore, will be to have set before us what the Church is expected to be doing today. And as added details unfold before us as we watch how the Holy Spirit led and empowered the disciples to carry out Christ’s command exactly as he gave it, no doubt can be left in our minds as to precisely what that Program is.

The Place of Prayer

As the foundation and preparation for all the Holy Spirit was to do in the disciples and for the lost when he began his official ministry on earth, a period of time was given over entirely to prayer. This period was ten days in this instance, but the number of days means nothing except that it was that long before the Holy Spirit came to begin his official mission. The whole emphasis must be on