Seventh-day Adventist® Church

There is scarcely a subject more central to the remnant church than evangelism.* It is the very reason why Christ founded the church—not only the New Testament church, but also the church in the wilderness (Acts 7: 38).** Sadly and incredibly, many believers are unaware that evangelism is the purpose the church exists. The result is that many churches are mere strongholds of the status quo and of the spiritually dead. They have the form (maybe), no power and few, if any, baptisms. Others, a little less dead, have a summer season of evangelism at which time a public evangelistic “event” (which some members actually oppose) is held with much fanfare, then they return to their annual hibernation while all around people die without a saving knowledge of the everlasting gospel.

Is evangelism merely a seasonal activity or is it the very life of the church—corporately and personally? If Christ’s mission on earth was “to seek and to save that which was lost” (Luke 19: 10), to call “sinners to repentance” (Matt. 9: 13), to preach “the glad tidings of the kingdom of God” (Luke 8: 1), and to give life “more abundantly” (John 10: 10), how can His church function differently when the church is His body, of which He is the head? (Col. 1: 18). Is not the body, any living body, led by the head? Read More>>