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

appeal is not more persuasive. It is not unfair to say that the average church is content to maintain services and to save its own life. With such a message as the Church has to give, and with so pitiful a need of it as this weary world feels, the best thought and purpose of the Church ought to be given to the question of how to bring these two together, and of what the misjudgments are which keep them apart.”

Ah, yes! “Such a message;” “so pitiful a need;” “how to bring these two together.” There is only one way, and that is to give the Lordship of Christ practical acknowledgment by a literal obedience to the Great Commission.

But we are increasingly disobedient to that command, and the result is, the Church is dying.

Look at the Numerical Decline

Figures may mean much or little, of course, but here are a few that at least indicate that the direction of the present movement in the Church is toward death.

Up to the beginning of this century the Church in America was gaining faster than the population. In 1800, there were ten church-members out of every 145 inhabitants. In 1900, it was ten out of every 45. But the increase steadily slowed up toward the end of the century, until from 1900 to 1910 the gain in the Church, according to Dr. Josiah Strong, barely kept pace with the percentage of gain in the population, while from 1910 to 1914 the