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Guest Post Door to Door

Jared Johnson and his wife Reagan have been a part of our Young Pros ministry at Richland Creek for over a year. I have mentored Jared and taught him in a couple of classes. He and Reagan are very precious to us.

Jared recently received the Owens Evangelism Award at SEBTS. I have watched his faithful, missional, intentional witness at his work. We have partnered together in sharing with common friends. God has His good hand on this young man. He is thoughtful, passionate, teachable, and he loves his bride.

Jared wrote a blog that came out of a class he took I co-taught with Mike Dodson, our church planting prof. I believe in door-to-door evangelism. Is it the best method in our time? Nope. But does it still reach people, and can it still help to equip believers? Yep. Enjoy Jared’s thoughtful, helpful guest blog:

I’ve never liked door to door evangelism. To me it always seemed that it was more like selling a vacuum cleaner than sharing the love of Jesus. And I don’t think I’m completely wrong, but now I think I’m mostly wrong.

I took an incredible class this semester about reaching the Unchurched in America and the thing we focused on the most was being missional. This just means that everything we do revolves around bringing glory to God by sharing Jesus with those around me. For instance, my workplace isn’t a place to make money while I learn to do ministry, it is my ministry.

So the last day of this class I found out that we were going to be helping out a new church plant in North Raleigh. I thought that maybe we would work at the school where they’re meeting. Nope. We went door to door to tell people about the church and to share the gospel with them if we got a chance.

I’ve been thinking about this hour spent going door to door for the last two weeks. My thinking came to a tipping point yesterday while I was watching a show featuring Gordon Ramsey. He’s a famous chef that yells and cusses at bad restaurant owners but he fixes problems. I love it.

This place he was fixing was a bar in England that had no real direction and a terrible reputation. Chef Ramsey showed up and fixed everything. Still, no one came. So he sent out the staff to go door to door to bring people in.

Boom. Sometimes we’ve got to go door to door. Jesus’ message gets hijacked from time to time and people hear the wrong message. They hear that Jesus wants them to do more so He’ll love them. They hear that if they love Him just right and prayer the right prayers they’ll prosper. They hear that if they walk an aisle and say a prayer they’ll go to heaven and sing with fat angels playing harps. How will they know if they have not heard that Jesus actually sets us free from all of that work and hoping in nothing?

I still think being missional is the best way to evangelize but I realize more and more that I don’t know everything. I’ve got a lot to learn.

But I’m still right about church league softball. It’s got to go.

Jared and Reagan blog at If you don’t mind, Caroline.

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Alvin L. Reid (born 1959) serves as Professor of Evangelism and Student Ministry at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina, where he has been since 1995. He is also the founding Bailey Smith Chair of Evangelism. Alvin and his wife Michelle have two children: Joshua, a senior at The College at Southeastern, and Hannah, a senior at Wake Forest Rolesville High School. Recently he became more focused at ministry in his local church by being named Young Professionals Director at Richland Creek Community Church. Alvin holds the M.Div and the Ph.D with a major in evangelism from Southwestern Seminary, and the B.A. from Samford University. He has spoken at a variety of conferences in almost every state and continent, and in over 2000 churches, colleges, conferences and events across the United States.