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

can never expect the world to come to us for the message; we must go to them with the message. And so in the nature of the case it must be individual work for individuals.

We Must Go Individually

If any further Scripture proof were needed to substantiate this, there is great abundance.

Take the Great Commission itself. It is commonly understood to mean, “Come ye out of all the community into our church and hear the Gospel preached.” But it reads instead, “Go ye into all the world [your world, your community as well as all the earth], and preach the Gospel [proclaim the Good Tidings] to every creature” (Mark 16:15).

There is no command in all the New Testament for a sinner to go to church after the Gospel, but there are multiplied commands for the Church to take the Gospel to the sinner. Of course it is cause for great rejoicing when the lost do come to church and hear the Gospel, but the responsibility of every Christian is not to bring the lost to the Gospel but to take the Gospel to the lost.

Even the Old Testament anticipates the Great Commission when it exclaims, “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings” (Isaiah 52:7), not “of them that bring the people to hear the Good Tidings.”

“Behold a sower went forth to sow” (Matthew 13:3)—forth into the field. The field will never come to us for the