The Catalyst

The "Catalyst" is our personal evangelism and early discipleship training course. This course is for your existing church members, and it can have a great reviving effect on a congregation.

Research has proven again and again that the majority of people who come to faith in Christ through the ministry of a local church initially come to the church (or a special evangelistic event) because of an invitation from an existing church member.

In his book Crusade Evangelism and the Local Church Dr Sterling Huston (long-time Director of North American Crusades for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association) said of the BGEA crusades:

“Evangelism is built on relationships. It is possible to gather a crowd at a crusade by making the meetings entertaining and appealing. But for an evangelistic harvest to occur, Christians must sow and water in the lives of people around them. The living example and the loving invitation of a Christian, offered to someone who needs Jesus Christ, is the single most important factor in influencing Crusade attendance.”

Dr Huston goes on to quote the following statistic: 75.6% of people responding to the Gospel in their crusades came because they were personally invited by a Christian friend (and 73.8% were picked up and transported to the Crusade by their friend!).

There is an untapped wealth of evangelistic opportunity in the relationships your church members already have, and often a simple invitation to attend a low-key, home-based video course (or an evangelistic breakfast, etc) is all it takes for them to begin their journey towards faith in Christ.

But for this untapped wealth to be harvested there will need to be a fresh inspiration for personal evangelism together with a practical, workable strategy taught to the people of your church. This is what the Catalyst course does.

The Catalyst course is a seven-session seminar which will not only re-inspire the members of your church for personal evangelism, but will teach them a proven, comfortable technique for doing so.