Organic Outreach for Churches

Organic Outreach for Churches

Introduction

Approximately every church and ministry considers itself devoted to evangelism. Several churches and ministries openly involve outreach in their mission statement. However, some ministries and churches bear fruits. This issue is diagnosed in the book called “Organic Outreach for Churches” (Harney, 2011). This book is written by Kevin Harney. In this paper we will analyze this book and this paper will discuss the positive outcome of reading this book.

Discussion

About Author

Kevin G. Harney has been serving in the church located in Shoreline Community Church of Monterey Los Angeles. He has written several books and researches. His writings include Seismic Shifts, Reckless Faith and Organic Outreach for Ordinary People (http://zondervan.com/harneyk).

Book Summary

In the book Organic Outreach for Churches, the author has discussed the problem of Churches and ministries that do not bear fruits for others. Moreover, in this book, author has provided guidance for the growth of outreach affect of churches. The book, “Organic Outreach for Churches” gives direction for national congregations for weaving the evangelism in the foundation of churches. Moreover, this book discusses the fact that commitment to great commissions is not just sending the prayers and money to the missions or organizing events on occasions to extend, even though all these activities are good (http://www.kevingharney.com).

Moreover, the book discusses that the organic outreach of church takes place when evangelism in vision or action dominates the commitment of each individual and every ministry in the congregations. This does not happen by accident. Changes like this are highly resisted in spiritual and practical manner. However, the sole way when evangelism turns out to be organ part of the church is when all the leaders and members are gripped by the commitment to declare the gospel (http://www.kevingharney.com).

Benefits of Reading This Book

This book can be considered as a roadmap for Pastors, Christians and Board members together with all leaders who have a wish for infusing evangelistic passion into each facets of their life of church. This book can be used as a measure in the ministry for:

Growing the church with the help of equipping members for sharing their faiths

Empowering every believer for reaching his/her friends and family with Gospel.

Preparing the church members with several different ways for sharing the messages of Jesus.

Setting the congregation without any fear of telling people about Jesus.

Several other books on Christianity only provide methods for doing accurately what they have ...