Originally posted by PastorSBC1303:
I think basically it depends on where you live. I think in todays world the best evangelism strategy is intentional lifestyle evangelism where you motivate your people to share Christ with those around them on a daily basis.
I think your FIRST sentence sums up a lot of it.
I remember a thread a year or two ago. A number of BB members that live in urban areas stated that they NEVER see anyone they know during the week other than intentionally at work or at church. It is not that they intend it that way.
It is that life is structured that way with people driving in their individual cars to their individual work cubicles and then home.
They don't have relationships with the anonymous people they see in the grocery, at the bank,the cleaners, or the gym.
Unlike the small town I am from, in which the town's business is daily discussed at the local restaurant "Round Table". My grandmother knew the life stories of every bank teller and grocery clerk and considered each such trip a major social occasion.
I am friendly with most of the neighbors on my street, and we speak, but I struggle to have more than minimal contact with them. My grandparents knew every person on every farm in a five to ten mile radius.
In general, many people are in casual contact with far more numbers of people but know them less intimately than in years past. This poses real challenges for lifestyle evangelism.
Karen
