Have you ever lacked for evangelistic materials – the bridge, two ways to live, christianity explained/ explored, or evangelism explosion? Have you ever been trained to use these tools?

On p.35, the challenge is “we have produced plenty of creative evangelistic materials, but little to help Christians connect their faith to the whole of life.”

Many churches often organize camps for evangelistic training every year – a set of program, very busy. But people are still having trouble for actually doing it, or ironically have no time to do it – too busy to do training – church service, prayer meetings, social at church, Alpha etc – these things occupy all our time. Haven’t we ever thought that the best places to present what we believe are work, school, college, sport, arts, leisure, rest? and the best way to present is to simply live out?

The vast majority of Christians have not been helped to see that who they are and what they do every day in schools, workplaces or clubs is significant to God, nor that the people they spend time with in those everyday contexts are the people God is calling them to pray for, bless and witness to. So we pray for our Sunday school teachers but not, for example, for schoolteachers workign 40 hours a week in schools among children and adults who on the whole don’t know Jesus. We pray for overseas missionaries but not for Christian electricians, builders, shop assistants and managers in our towns … We have simply not been envisioned, resourced and supported to share the Good News of Jesus in our everyday contexts.

How does this idea impact the way we pray each day or during Sunday service? What we pray for on Sundays usually reflects the way we do church, isn’t it true?

Also, there are things that prevent us to live out our faith, one of them is the ghetto mentality – “We think of church as the faithful few, backs against the wall.” Thinking positively, we need to see that in fact we are dispersed throughout the world. We are already infiltrating the kingdom of Satan.

“The challenge for us is to make the gospel the centre of our lives not just on Sunday mornings, but on Monday mornings” At this point,  I just realized that this is actually a rebuke for my sermon preparation as well. It reminds me that the applications must be for people to take home for next morning use.

We need non-full-time leaders who can model whole-life, gospel-centred missional living. It means thinking of our work-places, homes and neighbourhoods as the location of mission. We need to plan and pray for gospel relationships.

This is the strategy of “Total Church”. And now the question is how to prepare myself and others to do this?