Advocating a spirit of evangelism in my church

I read The Way of the Master and had no problem with it. But, I've never heard of Mark Cahill. Don't care much for Chick Tracks. I think the best way to foster a spirit of evangelism is through example. Many talk a big talk but I see very little if any action out of them. A fellow just left my church because he said we weren't evangelistic enough. Funny thing is that in the two years I've known him not one person we baptized came as a result of his supposed evangelistic efforts. Not even one person has come into the church to visit because of his supposed evangelistic efforts. Evangelism isn't really taught as much as it is caught. When church folks see people being saved, they hear the testimonies, etc., then they get excited and challenged and will begin to be obedient to share their faith.

 

I'm not sure about your situation, but me and my church are SBC and use WOTM. In fact, we are partnering with another church today, and we are going out to the beach for street preaching and one-to-one.

Honestly, my problem is Mark Cahill. The big problem you will find with most WOTM people, is that they tend to be Calvinists. WOTM, did a wonderful job of uniting Cals/non-cals, and then Mark came in and re-inserted division in the body, by attacking his Calvinist brothers. He was also extremely dishonest about the way he went about it...thus, many in SBC and IFB churches who are (positively) familiar with WOTM, are also very down on Mark Cahill.

 

WOTM itself is not explicitly Calvinist. Ray is basically a 4 pointer, but Kirk, Todd, and most of the rest are. Kirk, last time I checked, was a member of J.Mac.s church. Much of the teaching that it is based on (Spurgeon, Whitefield, etc.) is from Calvinists. Also, polls we have taken show that more than two thirds of the WOTM using evangelists are Calvinist.

My point was not that Ray was a Calvinist, though. My point was that he has done a fabulous job of uniting the brethren in evangelism, and brought them to overlook secondary doctrines. Cahill is seen, in the WOTM "circle", as one who is re-dividing the body, and undoing this work. So most who are well acquainted with and are positive towards Ray and WOTM, are also going to be negatively disposed to Cahill.