18 Obstacles to Effective Evangelism

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[sydneyanglicans.net] 4 Aug 2008--At Monday’s ministry intensive in St Andrew’s Cathedral, Mark Driscoll presented 18 points which he says are “obstacles to effective evangelism” in the Sydney Diocese. Below is Natasha Percy’s summary of his challenge.

Mr Driscoll introduced these points asserting that, if we are seeing no fruit from our ministry, rather than doing more, we have to ask what we are doing wrong. He also asserted that “pruning” must precede “harvesting”. This pruning could involve such things as people and programs.

“You need to cut that which is taking energy away from evangelism,” he said.

Mark Driscoll asserted that these 18 points were coming from a “friend”, as he asked all present to consider whether their ministry was doing “all” that it could to ensure people were “meeting Jesus” (1 Cor 9:22).