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

appeals, they are coming in smaller and smaller numbers, especially when revival meetings are on. It frequently happens that after a most appealing evangelistic message it is found that not a single unsaved soul is in the audience. Why?

The Church is Making the Wrong Appeal.

The thing that is vitally wrong with our appeal is that the dominant emphasis is being placed more and more on those things that can attract only the natural man. We play up the things that are an appeal to the senses. We bait the lost with fine music, beautiful architecture, splendid sociability, sensational topics, racy discussions of current events, and even moving pictures; and the result is that when they do come, they take one sniff at our bait and say “Cheap!” and then go straight back to the world where they can get what they call the “real thing.”

Even when a great evangelistic effort is being made, most of the Lord’s people resort to an appeal to the natural man to get the lost to the meetings by emphasizing the crowds, the great singing, the spectacular preaching, and other natural attractions, and many an evangelist helps it along by his antics in the pulpit.

Indeed, it is even possible for much of the earnest and sober appeal of evangelist and pastor to be aimed at the natural man only, and much more of that is being done today than most of us realize.