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The Efficacy of an Expository Sermon Series in Increasing Attendance Through Members Inviting Others at United Baptist Church.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Efficacy of an Expository Sermon Series in Increasing Attendance Through Members Inviting Others at United Baptist Church./
Author:	Mathews, Steven Hugh.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2024,
Description:	222 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-11A.
Subject:	Religion. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31236236
ISBN:	9798382329420

The Efficacy of an Expository Sermon Series in Increasing Attendance Through Members Inviting Others at United Baptist Church.
Mathews, Steven Hugh.

The Efficacy of an Expository Sermon Series in Increasing Attendance Through Members Inviting Others at United Baptist Church. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024 - 222 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: A.

Thesis (D.Min.)--Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2024.

Personal invitation from family and friends may be the most effective church growth methodology for bringing visitors to local churches. Researchers have pointed to the effectiveness of personal invitation in motivating unchurched people to visit a local church for the first time. In 1988, Robert Bast estimated that 57 percent of unchurched people would visit a local church if a friend or family member invited them. Eleven years later, Thom Rainer also affirmed the effectiveness of personal invitation, noting in 1999 that 80 percent of first-time church visitors credited an invitation from a loved one as the reason for their visit. Barna and Kinnaman studied the subject in 2014, and while they refrained from quantifying the effectiveness of personal invitation, they concluded that it remains the most effective means of outreach to the unchurched. More recently, Rick Richardson estimated in 2019 that 70 to 75 percent of unchurched Americans would visit a local church if invited by someone they knew. Credible researchers spanning over thirty years attest to the effectiveness of personal invitation in bringing unchurched people to church.The project director prepared and delivered a four-part sermon series at United Baptist Church of Valdese, North Carolina, focused on educating, motivating, and equipping members to invite others to church. Members indicated before the sermon series that they had moderately high levels of confidence in inviting others to church as an effective means of evangelism that God desires of them and indicated moderate confidence in their preparation to do so, as well as levels of anxiety at the thought of inviting others to church. The church showed stagnant attendance trends, with few and sporadic first-time visitors. The project director researched a biblical rationale for church invitation as a fulfillment of the Great Commission and as an effective form of evangelism. He researched church-growth theory and methodologies appropriate to the small, rural church. He prepared and preached a four-part sermon series designed to educate, motivate, and equip members to invite others. As a result of the sermon series, members indicated increased awareness of welcoming visitors, increased belief in invitation as an effective form of evangelism, improved affective states, and greatly increased awareness of opportunities to invite others to church. First-time and return visitor frequency improved greatly during and immediately after the sermon series.

ISBN: 9798382329420Subjects--Topical Terms:

516493
Religion.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Evangelism

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