Designed to build a bridge between our organisation and our community. For the community, focus on bridge events.Design programs for each group in the Circle of Commitment They’ve all been converted for so long they have few, if any, unconverted friends to convert.
The same fifty people come to everything the organisation does. The problem with most small organisations is that they are all ‘core’ and nothing else. The fire of evangelism (recruiting new people) dies out. Too often, a core group planning a new organisation spends so long in the small group stage that they become comfortable with it and lose their sense of mission. It’s easy to get what Peter Wagner called ‘koinonitis’ – developing such a close-knit fellowship that newcomers are afraid or unable to break into it.
“The problem with an ‘inside-out’ approach is that by the time the organisation planter has ‘discipled’ his core, they have often lost contact with the community and are actually afraid of interacting with the unchurched.” Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Church Growing from the outside in – and avoiding a single focus on the coreīegin by moving the unconverted from the community into the crowd. Jesus was able to ask for commitment from the crowd only after demonstrating his love for them and earning their trust.’ Intelligent, caring conversation opens the door for evangelism faster than anything else I’ve ever used… People don’t care how much we know until they know how much we care. ‘I wanted to listen first to what they thought their most pressing needs were…I’ve learned that most people can’t hear until they’ve first been heard. Listen to the community and earn their trust
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