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

Then back of all this decline, back of all the weakness and criminal indifference of the Church, lies prayerlessness. Prayer is the Christian’s vital breath, and we are breathing more and more feebly—the present declining health of the Church indicates how feebly. Those burdens of prayer for the Church, and those agonized yearnings over the lost that our fathers knew—where are they in the Church today? If God’s people would go to their knees and wait on him as in other days, how quickly would the whole being be opened for the normal inflow of the divine life and the normal outflow of the divine service for the lost! This brings us to the other side of the question.

The Need of Revival

The conditions hinted at in the last few pages are proof enough that there is desperate need of revival in the Church. The working of death in the body can never be arrested except by a renewed inflow of life. The revival of spiritual vitality is the only thing that will drive out disease and bring back abounding health and normal service. But the question is, how is this to be brought about?

There is but one way. When Christ said, “Lo, I am with you all the days, even unto the consummation of the Age” (Matthew 28:20, Gr.), he based that promise of his active and abiding presence on a condition. He preceded the promise by the command to “Go into all the world and disciple the nations” (Matthew 28:19, Gr.), and