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 Reach the Lost

Chapter II

If the Church needs to express the divine life in order to keep in health, the lost need to see the divine life expressed in order to desire to have it.

The world is always face to face with that kind of life whose mottoes are “Safety first,” “Take care of yourself,” “Look out for number one;” and there is nothing in it that is attractive or satisfying. But whenever they meet with that kind of life that puts sacrifice first, takes care of the helpless, and looks out for the other fellow, they find themselves in an altogether different realm.

The Marks of the Cross

At the heart of the new life in the Christian lies sacrificial love, which shows itself out before men in soul-winning service—the personal, private, man-to-man kind. That this takes daily sacrificial living every successful soul-winner will testify. It takes the crucified life to witness to the crucified Christ. No other kind can do so with success.

The reason is that the world has much the same attitude toward the testimony of Christians to the risen Christ that Thomas had toward the testimony of the disciples to him. When they told him Christ had risen, he refused to believe in a risen Christ