Our New Series
Church Planting and Church Growth.

Today’s Sermon

In our Series of Church Planting and Church Growth, we shall be able to understand what Church Planting and Church Growth is and how target evangelism real accelerates these two things.

Title: Target Evangelism.
Text: Matthew 10:11-13
And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.
And when ye come into an house, salute it.
And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.

Church planting and Church Growth is as a Result of target Evangelism.
A target is an objective goal. Target Evangelism is done in a specific geographical area, homes, individuals or a class one is attempting to reach with an evangelistic message.
We target places,
We target homes,
We target individuals

This was what Paul did. He could target individual families and synagogues.

Paul was about target Evangelism.
Jesus was about target Evangelism.
Philip was about target evanglism.
The early church was about target evanglism.

When Jesus wanted to reach many people in Samaria, he targeted only one woman at the well. When he won this woman, it was this woman who went about telling everyone in their City about this man who told her everything that she ever did. All came to Jesus to hear him because of the testimony of this one woman that Jesus touched with the Word of knowledge. After this miraculous revelation there was evanglism explosion. She went running and told one person, then the second and when she was telling the third the first two had began telling others what she had told them.
Some people would ask, why is that woman running. They answered, That woman is telling people of the man who is seated at the well. What is wrong with him. Oh, they said, she speaks of this man who is at the well. She said it is her first time to meet with him but he told her every secret about her private life. Could this be true? Let’s go right there to verify if the story is true or a hoax and ascertain the rumors.
Others would ask, what did she tell you. She told me of a man who told her everything that she ever did. Did she tell him about her private life? No, she never told him, and what surprised her is this one thing, how this man was able to tell her all that she ever did moreover things concerning her private life which she has been hiding from everyone. This could be true they said. We all know that this woman is an adulterous woman and she has been fearing to identify with people because of her manner of life. And for us to see her running from house to house telling this, the story should be true, let’s go and see. For this woman to gain all this confidence running around, there should be something so serious.
Some went and knocked at the doors of others. When they came out, they asked, did you see the woman who is moving from house to house. Some said, yes, and others said no, and yet others said some one told me about what she told him.
Others would ask, what is going on? The answer was like, it is about a woman who says that there is a man down there at our well who told her everything that she has ever done. She never told him anything about her private life, but to her greatest surprise, he was able to tell her all that she has ever done. That is so shocking, they said. We better go and see that man to prove this rumour that is circulating.
And the report circulated like a nuclear explosion.
If not because of targeting and winning this one woman, reaching those hundreds that came to the well would have been so difficult. He would have experienced much resistance reaching them one by one. You even see that it took some resistance to win this one woman had it not been because of the supernatural word of knowledge about this woman’s situation.

When Jesus sent his disciples out in Matthew 10, he gave them this strategy of target Evangelism. He tells them to Target houses, homes and individuals.
So for us to experience success in church planting and see our churches grow, then we must embrace target evangelism.

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