F.A.I.T.H. Evangelism Strategy

First of all, praise God for the success that you and your church have had witnessing Jesus Christ to a lost world.

Since you asked about F.A.I.T.H., I will give you my opinion and the opinion of several others in our church who both received the instruction and who taught it! It requires a lot of memorization, an outline, that the one doing the witnessing must try to keep the one being witnessed to, to adhear to (just like Evangelism Explosion (EE) by D. James Kennedy that I have taken).

The problem is that the one being witnessed to almost never plays along or allows the conversation to run the course of the outline. The person trained to witness by the outline is all too often left awkward and at somewhat of a loss when this happens.

Our church recently dumped F.A.I.T.H. for a new program that I have no details on at the moment, but is by a guy from New Zealand, centers around the Ten Commandments and leads the person being witnessed to self-proclaim themselves a sinner in need of salvation by introspection. It's a fantastic approach and only requires memorizing the Ten Commandments. It comes across much more naturally, and does what Jesus did with the woman at the well, lets them reveal their own sins and see their need.

Our pastor, who participated in every F.A.I.T.H. class says this new program is awesome. I will try to get more details if replys request it.

In Christ,
John

 

By all means find that info on the new method for us.

 

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I took the F.A.I.T.H. Evangelism course over a year ago. Our church is still using it. However, I agree with John Wells. I personally didn't care for the strictness and word for word questions. I was taught, many moons ago, to witness using the Roman Road of scripture. With F.A.I.T.H. you have an f, a, i, t, h, and then i, i, i. All that hinges on the Key Question which is meant to be asked word for word....

Key Question: "In your personal opinion, what do you understand it takes for a person to go to heaven."

After completing the course, I have NEVER used the F.A.I.T.H. outline to witness and lead someone to Christ as Savior. I still use the Roman Road or whatever scripture fits the persons situation.

Just my humble opinion.
Diane

 

FAITH, EE and all the rest are merely "training tools". I think we miss the point when we ask, "does FAITH work?"

What "works" as far as evangelism methods is this-----"obedience"

 

One of my concerns regarding F.A.I.T.H. is that at a pastors conferance I was at it was stated it was designed for churches running 100 or more and if your church is under 100 it may not be practical. Is that true?

 

I have found G.R.O.W. to be much better suited for the smaller church.

 

I even tend to believe that GROW is better for churches of even 200-300 or less.

 

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There are a number of very effective tools out there. Most are designed for a church that is larger than 100 in size. However, as the member of many smaller churches, they can still be effectively used if scaled properly and used as part of a strategy. The problem many of us have is to use 1 or 2 tools exclusively and forsake all others until the tool we were using no longer works so well. What we need to do is use many and adapt them as the needs change. We are in a church with 70 members perhaps. We have 5 groups who do visistations. Each targets a different demographic. I tend to visit with young married with children( my age in Sunday School/Bible study) and I am director of children's ministries. We have a group of ladies who visit old ladies and couples, our pastors visit with prospects and general hospital visits. Each of us use varied approaches that are best suited to the group and even the particular household we visit. Our pastors refuse to formally train us in a particular program. They have been through a few offered and encourage us to implement elements of all of them.

 

FAITH is nothing more than the old method with a no name? But did you notice the FAITH program Jesus used and the program Paul used?

Ever see a person who is being discipled not eventually share their faith?

The problem with most of these programs is that they give the impression that what they present is the gospel. But Paul writes the gospel in 1 Cor. 15:1-4. It is very short.

 

usn... I agree. I guess, here in AZ, my comment would have been considered heresy... Many swear by F.A.I.T.H. But, like I said you need to find the best tool and adapt it to your needs.
Grow, I have heard, is very effective with small groups. The biggest problem I have encountered has been getting participation in visitation of any sort. Everyone is so busy. Faith is diffucult because of the 13 weeks of consecutive sessions. I would personally start by exploring "lifestyle evangelism".. there is an old (the old tape strip/ cartridge system old) program our pastor still teaches with. It is more geared toward relationship building and sharing our personal testamonies. But may be a good start. and just visiting guests to your church by 2s is how we started doing it.