REACHING THE LOST: EVANGELISM

Bobby Jamieson

Mark Dever, General Editor

Jonathan Leeman, Managing Editor

HEALTHY CHURCH STUDY GUIDES

wheaton, illinois

9MARKS HEALTHY CHURCH STUDY GUIDES

Reaching the Lost: Evangelism

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CONTENTS

Introduction

An Important Mark of a Healthy Church: A Biblical Understanding of Evangelism, by Mark Dever

WEEK 1

Who Should Evangelize?

WEEK 2

Why Should We Evangelize?

WEEK 3

How Should We Evangelize? (Part 1)

WEEK 4

How Should We Evangelize? (Part 2)

WEEK 5

How Should We Evangelize? (Part 3)

WEEK 6

What Does the Church Have to Do with Evangelism?

Teacher’s Notes

INTRODUCTION

What does the local church mean to you?

Maybe you love your church. You love the people. You love the preaching, the singing. You can’t wait to show up on Sunday, and you cherish fellowship with other church members throughout the week.

Maybe the church is just a place you show up to a couple times a month. You sneak in late, duck out early.

We at 9Marks are convinced that the local church is God’s plan for displaying his glory to the nations. And we want to help you catch and live out that vision, together with your whole church.

The 9Marks Healthy Church Study Guides are a series of six- or seven-week studies on each of the “nine marks of a healthy church” plus one introductory study. These nine marks are the core convictions of our ministry. To provide a quick introduction to them, we’ve included a chapter from Mark Dever’s book What Is a Healthy Church? with each study. We don’t claim that these nine marks are the most important things about the church or the only important things about the church. But we do believe that they are biblical and therefore are helpful for churches.

So, in these studies, we’re going to work through the biblical foundations and practical applications of each one. The ten studies are:

• Built upon the Rock: The Church (the introductory study)

• Hearing God’s Word: Expositional Preaching

• The Whole Truth about God: Biblical Theology

• God’s Good News: The Gospel

• Real Change: Conversion

• Reaching the ...