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

increased membership hold under such conditions? Nothing but the promise of further worldliness and apostasy.

Look at the Spiritual Decline

One evidence of the decline is seen in the growing tendency to substitute worldly methods and machinery in Church life for the guidance and power of the Holy Spirit. The impression increasingly prevails that the Church is simply an institution whose prosperity can be assured by applying the same methods used by the world. We are even going to the length of deliberately seeking the friendship and co-operation of men who know nothing by experience of the grace of God and spiritual things, and who are therefore living in enmity against God. We are utterly forgetting that if the Church is faithful she will testify against the world that its works are evil, and that in return she will receive—not its friendship and co-operation, but its enmity and antagonism. We seem altogether to have lost sight of the fact that we can hardly hope to win men out of the world into salvation in Christ without pointing out the irreconcilable difference between the Church and the world so clearly as to show them what they are to be saved out of as well as into. The fact is, great sections of the Church do not see this difference, and this is why they are so ready to adopt the carnal methods, measures and means of the world for doing the spiritual work of God.

Dr. James A. Maxwell, writing on “A Partial