Kevin G. Harney serves at Shoreline Community Church in Monterey, California. Harney is the author ofLeadership from the Inside Out (part of the Leadership Network Innovation Series); Seismic Shifts;Finding a Church You Can Love and Loving the Church You’ve Found; and more than sixty small-group Bible studies.
1. We don’t have to spend all of our time trying to coax people to come to church…we can bring the church to them.
2. You are already exactly the right person to do outreach. You do not have to change who you are to share God’s love.
3. People without faith, even atheists, are very open to prayer.
4. The most valuable outreach asset you have doesn’t cost a dime: It’s the ordinary people in your church.
5. There is not one way to share your faith, but many …and one of them will feel natural for you.
6. Worry less about quality of the seed you throw, and focus more on the quantity of seed you throw. (Parable of the Seed-Sower: Luke 8; 1 Corinthians 5 – 6)
7. Sharing your faith can be as natural as talking about a great new restaurant or hair care product. As a matter of fact, it should be.
8. Prayer is the greatest outreach tool we have.
9. Doctrine matters to non-believers, sometimes more than it matters to Christians.
10. We Christians are not too aggressive with sharing our faith…we are too shy.
11. Christians don’t have one testimony, but many stories to tell. A testimony is a simple story of what God is doing in our lives and world.