• Raise the evangelistic temperature in your church

• Develop a strategy for church-supported personal evangelism

• Watch your church become contagious

Building a Contagious Church,
Revolutionizing the Way We View and Do Evangelism
by Mark Mittelberg with contributions by Bill Hybels
Willow Creek Resources/Zondervan
2000
404 pages

Several years ago Mark Mittelberg co-authored the best-selling video curriculum Becoming a Contagious Christian. Recognizing that contagious Christians can be most effective in partnership with a contagious church, this new resource teaches churches how to develop this synergy. With an emphasis on strategy and lay training, Mittelberg helps church leaders develop a comprehensive program for impacting their communities.

Sometimes the tendency for Christians, both as individuals and as churches, is to become ingrown.

As Christians we gravitate toward other believers for fellowship and friendship. Church programs, without a specific outreach strategy, also will grow inward as they focus on encouraging and ministering to their own members.

This book details a change process that will shift your focus to the unchurched community and simultaneously encourage and build up church members.

This process will not be without growing pains. When church as weve always done it is replaced with seeker-oriented services, many people will be uncomfortable and even unhappy with the changes. An important part of the churchs job is to raise the evangelistic temperature and help believers to see themselves in partnership with the church for the purpose of bringing their friends and neighbors to Christ.

Many Christians are uneasy with the idea of personal evangelism. We would rather leave the job to our pastors, great evangelists and others who have the gift. This book describes six specific evangelistic styles and shows how the church can support these varying approaches.

When believers see that outreach can be a natural extension of their own personality, their enthusiasm will be ... contagious.

NOTE: You can learn how to build a contagious church while you are driving in your car. This exciting book is available on Zondervans Audio Pages, read by Mark Mittelberg.