Category Archives: Evangelism

Prayer and Evangelism

Author : Keith Sharp One of my most treasured childhood memories is of Daddy Sprott, my maternal grandfather, as we gathered in the evening around the pot belly stove in the living room of his little four room farmhouse on … Continue reading

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Into All The World

Author : Keith Sharp Stunning change sweeps the globe in our time. Communism has collapsed in the Russian Empire and is being replaced by democracy and the free enterprise system. Arab states previously bitterly hostile to the U.S. were our … Continue reading

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Congregational Cooperation For Evangelism

Author : Keith Sharp Once I spoke by phone to an institutional preacher who works with a large congregation in South Texas. As we conversed he asked if I was “anti-cooperation.” I told him I knew what he was talking … Continue reading

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Contending For The Faith

Author : Keith Sharp The editor of one popular subscription magazine among Christians proclaimed in the paper’s first issue that he intended to “accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative.” He seeks to eliminate all controversy from its pages. As … Continue reading

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Declaring The Whole Counsel Of God

Author : Keith Sharp Reportedly, in the latter half of the nineteenth century, when the Christian Church and the church of Christ were in the process of becoming separate bodies, a church sent a prospective local preacher a list of … Continue reading

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The Work of an Evangelist (2 of 2)

Author : Keith Sharp God ordained the work of an evangelist (Ephesians 4:11). All aspects of the Lord’s will for the church are to accomplish His purpose (Ephesians 3:8-12). Thus, there is aim or purpose in the work of a … Continue reading

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The Work of an Evangelist (1 of 2)

Author : Keith Sharp I have heard of people who quit attending a local congregation on the complaint that the preacher did not visit them. This excuse not only betrays weakness of faith, it also reveals a denominational attitude toward … Continue reading

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Let’s Go Fishing for Men

Author : Keith Sharp Introduction Perhaps the most effective soul winner for Jesus I have ever worked with was Joe Pollack of Springdale, Arkansas. When I knew Joe he was a widower in his seventies. He had very little formal … Continue reading

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Salt and Light

Author : Keith Sharp In February, 1992, while I was in Nigeria, the late Brother Joseph Onyemaechi took me far out into the bush near Aba to preach on Sunday evening to a new congregation he had started. We were … Continue reading

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Local Evangelism

Author : Keith Sharp In the late summer of 1945, my father, twenty-nine years old and fresh out of Freed-Hardeman College, preached a ten night gospel meeting in the tiny Southwest Arkansas village of Kings Rider. One hundred ten souls … Continue reading

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