Every Member Evangelism by J.E. Conant

• Title Page
• Introduction
• The Divine Program
• The Divine Purpose
  • This Program Will Save the Church
    • The Present Decline
      • Look at the Numerical Decline
      • Look at the Spiritual Decline
    • The Need of Revival
      • A Revival Will Drive Out Disease
      • A Revival Will Bring Spiritual Health
  • This Program Will Reach the Lost
    • Why the Church Is Failing
      • The Church is Making the Wrong Appeal
      • The Church is Using the Wrong Method
    • Where the Church Succeeds
      • The Fundamental Principle Behind the Program
      • The Present Day Practice of the Program
• The Divine Power
• Every-Member Evangelism in Operation

This Program Will Save The Church

Chapter I

A Christian is one who has become spiritually alive from the dead. The presence of spiritual life within him is the one fundamental thing that distinguishes him from the unregenerate world about him.

What Spiritual Life Is

This spiritual life is not native to us, nor can it be developed out of anything we have or are by nature. It must be given to us. So God has given us eternal life, “and this life is in His Son,” through whose possession of us when we believed on him we were born from above; “not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God” (John 1:13); by which we have become a “new creation” (II Corinthians 5:17, Gr.) in Christ, being thereby made “partakers of the divine nature” (II Peter 1:4).

The life of a Christian, therefore, is the life of Christ within us through the Holy Spirit. It is not a life similar to his, it is his life. This is shown by the fact that what we receive in the new birth is not only “everlasting life,” but also “eternal life,” which is far more than “everlasting life.” For while everlasting life has no end, yet it may have