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How To Implement GPS
Step 1
POWER UP!
Make a personal commitment to share Christ as you go. Make a commitment to be part of this national evangelism initiative.
Assist your church in making this commitment, that it will spend more time and resources and be more actively and intentionally involved in evangelizing your community, your county, your state, and North America.
Step 2
DETERMINE WHERE YOU ARE NOW!
Just as a GPS identifies your current location, the next step is to be honest in identifying where you are now. Where are you in terms of your personal commitment to the evangelistic process of praying, engaging, sowing, and harvesting?
Where is your church in the process? How could you help your church begin to work each part of this process?
Here are a few questions to help you get started:
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GPS GOALS
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EVALUATION
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PRAYING: Every church praying for every lost person.
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How can your church actively pray for lost people?
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ENGAGING: Every believer sharing as a trained witness.
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How many believers are trained to share their faith?
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SOWING: Every lost person receiving a complete witness.
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How is your church creating intentional opportunities to share the gospel with lost people in your community, county, state, and across North America? |
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HARVESTING: Every church harvesting and celebrating every salvation experience.
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Are you seeing people come to Christ through the ministries of your church? Are you celebrating those decisions?
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Step 3
PLAN YOUR ROUTE!
The final step in the process is to develop a personal plan for praying, engaging, sowing, and harvesting to the end that everyone in your sphere of influence has an opportunity to respond to the claims of Christ.
You can also assist your church to develop a plan for each part of the process.
Here are a few suggestions to get you started:
PRAYING
Prepare God’s people to pray.
Prayerwalk your community.
Continually discover lost people/examine their needs.
Pray for lost people.
Praise God continually.
ENGAGING
Create an environment for passion-driven evangelism.
Provide training for a variety of personal evangelism approaches.
Involve people in opportunities to share the gospel.
Offer a variety of venues for evangelism to take place.
SOWING
Increase the number of times people hear a complete gospel presentation.
Give effective invitations when lost people are gathered.
Provide for Scripture distribution in every person’s heart language.
Network for evangelism.
HARVESTING
Do intentionally evangelistic events.
Follow up and assimilate new believers.
Celebrate baptism.
Start something new.
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