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Awaken Every
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Message from Joel Van Hoogen I am dedicated to serving the body of Christ and to serving you. Recently I began a web page containing my sermons. To hear them, click on this link. Below is a link to the recommended message for the week. I hope you will find time to listen in and share it with others. To hear it, click on this link.To hear Bread of Life Radio, click on this link. |
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Who We Are |
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| We are the Church Partnership Evangelism (CPE), a short- term missions ministry with a long-term impact. We give your church a powerful tool for evangelism, discipleship, and church planting in the mission field. Church Partnership Evangelism aims to make disciple-making disciples and plant church-planting churches. Our strategy is to equip you in evangelism, discipleship, and cell or church planting, and then to engage you in the task. | |||||||||||||
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Our Purpose |
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| Church Partnership Evangelism mobilizes churches to equip and engage their people in evangelism, discipleship, and church planting. This results in making disciple-making disciples and planting church-planting churches throughout the world. (Read more in Who We Are.) | |||||||||||||
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Our Strategy |
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| We provide just-in-time training in ministry exercises that catalyze, and then model this engaging ministry. (Read more in How We Do It.) | |||||||||||||
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Our Form of Evangelism |
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Our evangelism is dialogue in nature and reflects our
confidence that God, through His Spirit, is working ahead of us to
prepare people for the truth. Through dialogue and
the filling of the Holy Spirit, we learn to listen to what He
is doing in people's lives, and we find an opening to present
Jesus Christ in that setting. We emphasize sin and judgment, because Jesus already told us that this is where the Spirit is at work---convicting men and women of sin, righteousness, and judgment. We're not just an evangelistic ministry. In the course of our ministry, we initiate those who make professions of faith in a discipleship course led by the lay person who brought them to the Lord Jesus. |
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Dialogue Evangelism |
| Our approach to evangelism begins with one
key understanding. We believe that God's
Holy Spirit is already active in the lives of those we seek to bring
to the Lord Jesus. We are certain that wherever we arrive, the Holy
Spirit is already at work there. In particular, we believe
that the Holy Spirit is at work in all people convicting them of sin
and awakening the need for
righteousness and judgment.
Every false faith or religion, no matter how much in error, is a token
of the good work of the Holy Spirit. One's religious efforts and
ideas are the product of a response to the good work of the
Holy Spirit.
We also believe that the Christian, filled with the Holy Spirit, can be used by God to complete the Holy Spirit's ministry by bringing the witness of Jesus Christ and His Gospel before those whose spirit is under conviction. With this in mind, we don't believe that it is always necessary to confront directly the false religions and belief systems men and women have. Instead, our approach is to recognize the Spirit's impulse in people and ask them questions accordingly. We ask questions that allow them to tell us how God is at work in their lives, and how they are sensing and responding to His work. The most important words a person can hear in coming to Christ are not necessarily our words, but their own words. As they speak truth reflecting the work of the Spirit in their lives, and as we listen to them, they are softened by our respect and by a reflection upon what God has shown them. Then, having listened to them, we earn the right to speak truth back into their lives. We take what they have shared with us and place Lord Jesus and His Gospel alongside their own witness, and at that point a powerful connection is made to their hearts. |
Dialogue evangelism calls for:
CPE's evangelism tract includes ten questions meant to be guides into a deeper dialogue through which men and women may be led to receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Each question is a simple "yes" or "no" question, but under each question is a key dialogue question we wish to ask. These questions follow a natural pattern allowing the Gospel to be presented, while at that same time permitting the individuals to be respected and heard. The approach is simple, Biblical, natural, and wonderfully powerful. It bears good fruit. Training DVD Our Training DVD contains five
twenty-minute training sessions that will prepare CPE team
members for
their work with Church Partnership
Evangelism. Each session leads
viewers through the use of a portion of our tract and readies them to
engage in Dialogue Evangelism. Email us for a
copy at cpejoel@aol.com.
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