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

come, and in which the world can never offer competition.

This is one great reason why Satan tempts us out of our own sphere of appeal into that of the world, for if we yield to the temptation, we not only defeat our spiritual appeal or else leave it unmade altogether, but we enter a realm where we will be not only utterly powerless, but where we will even become the hissing and the by-word of the very ones we seek to reach for God. No wonder he is doing his utmost to get the Church into the realm of worldly appeal.

The Church is Using the Wrong Method

While the lost are in desperate need of what we have to give, yet there is among them no conscious and active demand for it. Their demand for what the world has to offer is intensely alive, and absorbs their whole attention. But their demand for what the Church has to offer is altogether dormant, and they have no time nor attention to give to it.

Now it is impossible, in the nature of things, for any one to be induced to go after something for which he has no conscious and active demand. And so for the Church to make the spiritual appeal to the lost when their demand for spiritual things is dormant, without doing the only thing that will arouse that demand, is a more certain pathway to failure than it can ever be to success. No matter how earnest or even frantic our appeal may be, so long as the lost are conscious of no demand for