Soul wining is the most fundamental thing in the church i believe. In age I'm very young and never work anywhere but in different churches of Christ as a preacher, and teacher in the Bible school. It is fulfilling seen people repenting serving the Lord. I was born in the village in South Africa Venda homeland. The church of Christ is big and growing very fast there.There is more than 55 congregations. The reason why is growing is not because Vendas there peaceful people as many people say in South Africa but because of evangelism. I remember been appointed as a preacher in the capital city of South Africa Pretoria, I was very happy with the appointment. When i get there i realized that the church i was expected to work with had less than 10 people.
The first thing i advice the church member about was to focus on evangelism, they say to me we have been doing it but it never work.(Evangelism works, it work for the first church and it will work for the church today) I said to them let's try it again but this time we should go to people homes to preach to them.
Today because of that the church is big enough, they now have their own building and the membership is grown to more that 60 baptized people.
I believe the reason why the church is not growing is because preachers they do not want to go out and evangelize, visit people and engage themselves to home sells.We seat down and discus the whole year long and not do anything. When they do it is once a month and we wonder why is not working, while we making it not to work.

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Comment by James Nored on August 23, 2009 at 9:52pm
Ndou, I'm sorry that I did not have a chance to respond to this sooner. Let me say, what a great testimony! I am so excited to hear that 60 people have been baptized.

Evangelism is the key to church growth, of course. It was the only type of church growth in the first century! It sounds like the lack of passion for evangelism amongts preachers--and members--is not a phenomenon only in the the US. I thank God for ministers like you who go into homes and share the gospel.

Keep up the great work! I would love to hear more stories and more about your work. Praise God that people are being reached for Christ.

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