GO! Evangelism 2011

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GYC Southwest

Cycle of Evangelism

Gary Gibbs

Winsome Witnessing

What do you do when the meetings are over?

Hard Act to Follow

Adventist for such a Time as This!

I told you last night I left 70 degree weather in Maryland.

I didn't tell you it's going to be 32 on Tuesday when I get back home.

I thought I'd get a little warmth though in, yeah, I've got, yeah, there we go.

Coming here to LA at this time of year, I know it can be a little bit cold, but I was hoping it would be a little bit warmer.

Reminds me of what Mark Twain said, He said the coldest winter he ever, coldest winter he ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

That needs to go back to the first slide, guys.

So what we're doing tonight is I don't have my computer hooked up to that, so I'm gonna be controlling that and my computer, but I wanted to start by telling you to go to page 23 if you have your book with you.

Page 23, I wanna share with you some resources.

I'll keep plowing forward until that gets settled.

Anyway, I want to share with you some resources that are exciting.

We've been on there for over, what, about 2 years now.

You know, if God made me with 1 more hand, I'd be really good, but.

And then when I get my hands free, I'll use that.

By the way, I never got introduced other than Gary Gibbs.

I'm talking about Hope Channel because I work for Hope Channel.

Evangelism, of course, is what I love and do some TV programs as well.

But the reason I'm at Hope Channel is because we need to reach people with the gospel of Jesus Christ, with the 3 angels message specifically.

And I believe that we ought to do everything to reach people.

We ought to do the cold port of work, the Bible studies, the evangelistic meetings and all that.

And yet we still won't reach all of them, but there are ways to reach the masses, and that's using mass communication.

So we need to be on the internet, we need to be on the radio, we need to be in the TVs.

And so, DirecTV goes to 19 million homes, which represents over 50 million people here in the United States.

And if you do it on average, it's on average 1 out of every 6 homes.

And yet, people need to know out of all those channels where to find real hope.

And so what we have is an outreach resource, it's door hangers.

You go door to door, you don't even have to knock on the door, you just stick it on the door and run if you're scared of knocking on doors.

And you leave that there and it points people to Hope Channel and Direct TV.

Let me give you another statistics that I find phenomenal.

I've questioned this statistic many times, but it's absolutely true.

250, 000 people a day in the US are making decisions where they are going to get their paid TV from.

Are they going to get it from Dish, Direct TV, Comcast, some other cable network?

Where are they going to get their paid TV from?

So our task is to point them over to Direct TV to get Hope Channel.

And the way we do that is with these door hangers.

Now on these door hangers, on the bottom, you have a photocopy of 1 in your book.

On the bottom it also has a tear off card offering Bible studies.

You're offering them 24-7 message of God through Hope Channel and Direct TV, but you're also offering them Bible studies in the card.

They can tear it off, send it back in, and we can send it back to you to fulfill so that you can actually go to the home and do the Bible study, or we can send it and have it done as a correspondence course.

We have a door hanger that focuses on Bible prophecy.

We have a general 1 if you're dealing with a very secular area, just dealing with family life.

So there are different approaches that you can use.

We've got people ordering these, you know, 100 at a time for their neighborhood.

And we've got people ordering these 100, 000 at a time.

Like they'll take all their pathfinders out and put them out on the streets for 36 days, you know.

Going door to door, but no, they'll go out in masses and pass out a hundred thousand of these, and it's working.

We just had got an email this past Christmas from a lady in Texas who is a pastor.

I got a phone call, we told this story the other day, somebody called up, is she pastoring the Adventist church?

It's a woman pastoring an Adventist church.

Deal with the real general conference on that 1.

But anyway, she's a pastor of a non-Adventist church.

So, she's, She was getting discouraged by what she was watching on TV all the time.

And so she turns to the DirecTV channel listings and guess what she finds?

Hope, hope channel, oh, that's what I need.

And she tunes in and she begins watching and it changes her life and she's now baptized.

She's now a member of the Adventist Church Now her husband was baptized out She was baptized a couple months ago And then her husband was baptized on Christmas this past year on Sabbath.

And then other members, it's a little tiny church, other members of her little small church are coming over to the Adventist church as well.

And her church is really a mission to the homeless and the poor people in that city.

This is from North Louisiana, the guy named Floyd.

And in the midst of the heart attack, he dropped to his knees and he started pleading with God to save his life.

And he felt his heart relax and he was fine.

Well, after that, he said this, I'm quoting his email, I just got this yesterday.

He said, upon realizing I was so biblically illiterate, I asked God to lead me to a real church, and he capitalizes real, where the real truth, and he capitalizes truth, was being taught.

Now it's very interesting he sent this because we just met with a major television executive who's helped start some major TV networks, And he said, you guys need to be the people of the truth.

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What do you do when the meetings are over?

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