follow what the shepherd models .
Titus 2:7 – 8 says , “ Make yourself an example of good works with integrity and dignity in your teaching . Your message is to be sound beyond reproach , so that any opponent will be ashamed , because he doesn ’ t have anything bad to say about us .”
Excerpt taken from Resuscitating Evangelism by Jordan Easley and Ernest Easley . Copyright 2020 . Used by permission of B & H Publishing .
1 . Joel B . Green , 1 Peter ( Grand Rapids , MI : Eerdmans , 2007 ), 168 .
2 . Chuck Lawless , “ Personal Evangelism and Pastors : Part One ,” Thom S . Rainer : Growing Healthy Churches Together , January 21 , 2014 , accessed April 25 , 2018 , https :// thomrainer . com / 2014 / 01 / personal-evangelism-and-pastors-14-findingspart-one .
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Ernest Easley is the teaching pastor over evangelism at First Baptist Church in Cleveland , Tennessee . He served as a lead pastor for over thirty-one years in Texas and Georgia and professor of evangelism for three years at Union University in Jackson , Tennessee . Ernest is the author of Through the Valleys and contributor on sermonsearch . com and preaching . com . He and his wife , Julie , have three children and seven grandchildren .
Jordan Easley is the senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Cleveland , Tennessee . He is the author of Life Change : Finding a New Way to Hope , Think , and Live . He and his wife , Audra , live in Cleveland , Tennessee and are the proud parents of their two children , Jailee and Asher .
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