Last month I participated in a discussion in response to a post on Brian Barela’s blog looking at the role that ministry mode evangelism plays in our movements on campus.
I think that ministry mode evangelism is an important element in our movements on campus but I do not think that we are ever going to fulfill our mission unless we can move beyond ministry mode evangelism into the two other modes (natural mode and body mode).
My concerns rest largely on two points. The first is that while ministry mode evangelism is essential in starting a movement, it is extremely difficult to have true spiritual multiplication in a campus setting without natural and/or body mode evangelism. The second is that unless our students learn natural mode evangelism (through us or others) they will be frustrated in their evangelism efforts beyond campus. I want to focus on the first of these points in this post.
Many of you will also be familiar that once a campus ministry gets to a certain size it becomes extremely difficult t...