What are your outreaches to unsaved people? What is your main idea about this?

The church in London is quite active in gospel outreach. The majority of the people who are now meeting with us were saved through the gospel preaching of our members. We consider the willingness and effectiveness of its members to preach the gospel to be two of the signs of the healthiness of a local church. So, from time to time we provide gospel training to the saints, especially in how to help someone receive the Lord. Then we encourage the saints to speak to others wherever they are and to invite people into their homes to make opportunities to share something of the gospel with them.

We also encourage the young people to speak to their friends about the Lord and to bring them to young people's meetings and activities. It has been our joy to watch some of them develop a love for others and a habit of speaking to people about the Lord. Our university students were on campus every week of the past school year singing hymns, handing out Christian literature, and speaking to people.

One thing we used to do but have not found to be as effective as we would like is to have large gospel meetings where we invite many people to come. When we did that some people would respond in the meeting but afterwards there didn't seem to be enough of a relationship with them to be able to help them further. When someone receives the gospel through one on one sharing they are likely to be receptive to receive more from the one who introduced them to Christ. This might seem like the slow way but we have found it more effective in the long run.

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