Focus on Reproduction, Mentor's Guide, MG12

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doing evangelism in the city? What am I least convinced of as I review the material?

* What are the kinds of attitudes and perspectives we will need to adopt for our evangelism strategies if we are to, in fact and in reality, begin to take the idea of oikos evangelismmore seriously in our urban church environments? * How soon and early ought we to begin to have children, teens, and adults begin to share the Good News with the members of their own distinct oikos networks? Under what conditions would it be detrimental (if any) to encourage a person to immediately go and share with the members of their oikos network their new found faith in Christ? * Of all the various strategies and methods employed in urban evangelism, what three methods appear to take most seriously the reality and potential of the oikos network? * Have I made a concerted effort to pray for and share the Good News with the members of my own oikos network? What has prevented me from doing so? What steps could I take immediately to be even more effective in sharing the life and message of the Kingdom with the members of my own oikos group?

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Bad Advice?

Recently, a member of the Black Muslims was dramatically converted to Christ. Encouraged by members of his new fellowship to share with family and friends about the Lord, the young disciple went and shared his decision to follow Christ with his imam (his Muslim minister), his fellow ex-Muslim colleagues, and his Muslim family. Immediately, all of these individuals took great offense at the testimony of the new Christian-converted-from-Islam. Was the advice that the new fellowship gave the young disciple “bad advice?” Should he have nurtured his relationships more before he said anything to them? Is this a case of simply persecution of Christians or bad advice in seeking to win his oikos network?