C3: SESSION FIVE

Ed Young, Jr.
Personal Evangelism: Things I learned from my dad, Ed Young, Sr.

1. Know the power of personal evangelism, the power of being comfortably uncomfortable. The power of sharing Christ. Jesus saw Zacheus hanging on a sycamore tree (seek Him More tree) and invited him down. Be a friend to sinners.
2. The crucial role of leadership. Take people where they need to go, not where they want to go. Too many churches and companies take people where they want to go. That is not true leadership. The best leaders are not the people who volunteer to lead. The best leaders are those you have to go out and find.
3. Do the hard things first. If you have a list of phone calls, start with the toughest one. Start your day with the workout, time with God first. Discipline.
4. Dad has zero partiality in his life. His dad has the most wealthy and prestigious people in his church yet shows no partiality to them. If a leader placates to them, they have lost the mantle of leadership.
5. The power of study. 80% of the game is study. So goes the weekend, so goes your church. We have to say “No” to a lot of good things to keep the significant important.
6. The power of the absence. Take breaks or your schedule will break you. Ed takes 6-8 weeks chunks of time off, each year. He also has many breaks each quarter. Leadership is measured when you are not there. 17,000 pastors a year bolt on the ministry partially due to negativity and not taking breaks. His best leadership moments occur when he takes a break. Vacation is not going somewhere with the family (outing), with relatives (obligation vacation) or friends. A true vacation is with your spouse.
7. Hospitality happens. It is commanded in scripture in First Peter 4:9 and Romans 12:13. We are to open our homes and be hospitable people. Not just opening our homes but really building stuff in people’s lives. Their family took young people in and helped raise them up.
8. Always de-kook your church. Always keep a monitor on kooky people who enter your church and deal with them.
9. Promote, promote, promote. The gospels are all about promotion. We are missing the people hanging from the sycamore trees. Promote your church, baptism, communion, salvations and the weekend (service).
10. Dad is a man of vision (seeing the unseen). Without it, people perish.
11. Have a funeral in your mind for negative people.
12. Dad and mom are generous people. They open their home as well as give gifts. Large, bone chilling gifts.
13. Dad taught him how to marry up. Look at his mom!