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

until he had seen the marks of the cross on him. And the world will not believe we are risen with Christ, and therefore not in the Christ who is risen, until they can see the marks of his cross on us. It has been said that the world will never believe a man is a Christian until it sees that he has been crucified and lives again.

The Cross and Soul-Winning

The evidence of our sacrifice for their salvation must therefore be visible before men are likely to believe in us, and they must believe in us before they will pay much heed to our message. And we put ourselves where men will believe in us the moment we commit ourselves to life-long sacrificial service for their salvation, for then we can go to them with the marks of the cross upon us. Such Christians can get a hearing for their testimony. Read the biography of Uncle John Vassar for abundant illustration.*

But that the world pays little attention to the Church or her message today, and that the unsaved are therefore going wholesale to a lost world, has already been abundantly shown. There is certainly a reason for this fearful situation, and we will seek to find it.

Why the Church Is Failing

The lost are not coming to church services. They never did come in any great numbers, and today, in spite of all our modern methods and frantic

*American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia.