2005: Year of the Won
by Chuck Millhuff

It is my passion during every Revival in 2005 to turn our corps of evangelists into a massive sales force to promote personal evangelism in every church in which they are ministering. The goal is to raise dramatically the level of commitment among the people where it really counts in the arena of the pre-saved outside the church.

A whole sermon-or least an emphasis-on this issue of the Great Commission in the one-on-one, day-by-day way of living the Christian life preached during the revival is the goal. The Sunday night service would be the universal time for this sermon if it fits into the flow of the week. The thought of, say, 100 revival events in process during a given week and every one of them presenting the exciting challenge of personal evangelism to the end that the pre-saved would be WON to Christ is rather overwhelming. Multiply these 100 revival events by, say, 25 weeks and it is obvious to extrapolate this out to 2,500 churches being changed to some degree in the area of the most impacting commitment imaginable, personal evangelism. With about 5,000 churches in the United States and Canada, we can make a real difference.

Think of it like D-Day in World War II when the hundreds of ships crossed the English Channel to start the
liberation of Europe from Hitler's grip. I visualize hundreds of evangelists leading the troops into this glorious battle for souls. Know that as you hold this magazine in your hands that a year from now thousands of people will have come to faith in Christ or gone on into the entirely sanctified life of growth and victory. Why? Because we as evangelists sounded the battle cry and then splashed onto the secular beach in the everyday world of grime and need where folks are looking for "hope, help and a home," to quote Evangelist Jim Mellish.

2005 THE YEAR OF THE WON!

I pray that I will be the person I am presenting here to a greater measure than ever before. I also pray that every evangelist will cooperate with my vision and what I truly believe to be the heart cry of every pastor. In our church in Olathe there are many couples sitting there every Sunday that Jeanne and I have had a part in leading to Christ. Over the now more than 30 years we have belonged to College Church, we have consistently reached out to the unsaved in our town in every conceivable place and way. I say this not to
brag but to let you know that I am not asking any of our evangelists to do what I have not been doing for
many years on a regular basis. Only heaven will tell what the year 2005 and the Nazarene evangelists in the United States and Canada will create if we take this challenge God has so clearly laid on my heart. May we as evangelists not hide in our pulpits as in coward's corners, avoiding the pre-saved with an eye for our own convenience. I believe so much in our evangelists. I believe them to be the most committed and effective in the world in any church anywhere. We are a force that hell will have to reckon with as never before in the year 2005. I can't imagine any pastor not saying, "That's what I need."

If you have more questions about Year of the Won, send them to Chuck Millhuff at evang@nazarene.org