They are won to Christ through prayer and reliance on the convicting work of the Holy Spirit. The combination of prayer and evangelism inevitably results in conversions to Christ. As we pray and share the gospel, the Holy Spirit works with us by opening hearts to receive the truth. This divine partnership in evangelism is foundational to the launching of a church planting movement. It s simple.
Converts are the basic building blocks in the foundation of a movement.
It was the mass turning to Christ of three thousand and then five thousand new converts which launched the first church planting movement in the book of Acts. Nothing has changed. It would be wishful thinking that we could launch a church planting movement anywhere in the world without the new birth of multiplied thousands of new converts. Converts from Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism or from an atheistic background will do best in a small group. Small groups are much less threatening than the larger crowd in a congregation.