Are We Diligently Trying To Get Bible Studies With The Lost?

I heard a sermon by Gary Fisher several years back where he was relating the fact that he had gone knocking on doors, and the family he got a study with automatically assumed he was a JW (Watchtower Witness adherent). Gary then made the point that when it comes to personal evangelism, we ought to be ashamed that a group with so little truth outworks those of us who have the truth.

Why do so few Christians and especially gospel “preachers” knock on doors these days when it has been proven one can get studies with non-Christians that way? (5 hours of door knocking a month should keep you in 5 studies with non-Christians per week) Is it because they have plenty of such studies going and so don’t need to knock on doors (that’s good, Matt 28:19-20). Or is it because knocking on doors has gone out of fashion in the NI brotherhood in the last say 40 years or so (that’s bad – Exod 23:2a). Or is it because they are too busy with worldly matters (that’s sad, Matt 6:33)? Or is it because they’re too lazy (that’s also bad, Acts 28:30-31). Or is it because they don’t really want to have Bible studies with non-Christians (that’s super bad, II Cor 5:11)? Is there another reason?

By the way, knocking on doors is not the only way (write me for suggestions); any method that gets Bible studies is pleasing to God. But sitting on our hands is not – Acts 8:1,4.

10-20-2013

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