Gilbert?? :laugh: Who's that?
SolaSaint;Is it more of a personal evangelism approach where Christians witness to those in their influence instead of a door-to-door approach?
It's not really an "either/or"...fundamentally, the visiting itself is essentially door-to-door...but you are always targeting "leads"... There is a list generated of specific individuals you visit, and not so much mere cold-calling. The strategy is married to the Sunday School program. Sunday School classes or peer groups make up each team, and they specifically visit other people in their peer group, thus, your class of 30-somethings will have a team of people visiting other 30-somethings...
So, whenever a visitor fills in that little visitor's card and puts it in the offering-plate...it goes STRAIGHT to the box of that visitor's peer group, and they will be the victims of a FAITH team visit on Tuesday (or whatever day you do it).
The idea is that your peer-group invites their peers to their Sunday-School class or group, and also is trained to share the gospel with them if appropriate.
however I don't see any training involved.
The training is intensive (for this post-modern intellectually lazy era anyway).
Each meeting begins with an hour-long training from a curriculum, and then there is an hour and a half or so of visiting.
For every "semester" or 16-week cycle, there is a curriculum and it begins with the first semester which is basically sharing the gospel and learning the visiting strategy,
The second semester is a different curriculum
the Third semester you would be involved in deals with answering questions and criticisms and defending the faith from objections...etc...
The training is very specific and pointed.
Generally, your "team" would be comprised of at least one person who has been through the first semester already and are "qualified" to lead the visit. That person is teamed up with others who are new to the program and are still learning the basic strategy...
Give it a look!!!
It takes some serious committment on the part of the Church leadership. It isn't something that works if the Church is only half-hearted about it....You have to be "all-in" or there is nothing-doing.
For more specific info and detailed answers, you could call the staff of FBC Downtown Daytona [Fla.] (who designed the program)...they give seminars where they train the Pastoral and leadership staff how the strategy works. I have no doubt they would be happy to help you out with it and answer any questions you have about it:thumbsup:
Actually, I was a team leader and teacher in it for some years too, so I would be happy to share more with you about it if you'd like:wavey: Just shoot me a PM if you're interested...........My name is
Mark.
