By - Ed Stezer Every Saturday morning at First Church, dedicated church members meet to do something both their parents and grandparents did before them—door-to-door visitation. They visit people in the neighborhood who might be new church prospects with the hope they'll begin personal relationships with Christ either that morning or the next Sunday at church. Recently there has been a growing debate among those assembling for outreach as to how to approach their task. Some on the team want to share the gospel with every person they come in contact with—or they believe they're putting the person's eternal destiny at risk. Others suggest that the team should simply invite people to hear their biblically faithful, gospel-preaching pastor tell them about Jesus during his Sunday message.

Who's right?

We (the North American Mission Board's Center for Missional Research) decided to find out. By partnering with a polling firm  to ask 1,200 random Americans we discovered that the answer just might be—"both." Read The Entire Article Here.

More than just another story! The record about the lad and his basket of bread and fish inspires all of us to recognize that even the simplest of offerings from us can be used by God to change the lives of the people we come in contact with everyday. With one simple invitation to the friend you see everyday you are allowing God to open your basket of bread and fish and use it BEYOND anything you can imagine. Remember the story:

One of the disciples—it was Andrew, brother to Simon Peter—said, "There's a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But that's a drop in the bucket for a crowd like this."

Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." There was a nice carpet of green grass in this place. They sat down, about five thousand of them. Then Jesus took the bread and, having given thanks, gave it to those who were seated. He did the same with the fish. All ate as much as they wanted...