According to the New Testament, the church is primarily a body of people who profess and give evidence that they have been saved by God's grace alone, for His glory alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.

The gospel of Christ has never needed the gimmicks of man to effect conversion in the soul

Discipling involves instruction and imitation.

All evangelists want to do is share a message about the forgiveness of sins and reconciliation with God. But our world is confused by the confidence we have in the gospel, and is threatened by it. Satan, I am sure, causes those things to echo in the world to increase this sort of common confusion.

I think it's unhelpful to suggest that the task of evangelism is essentially the responsibility of ministers.

It doesn't matter whether we live in the 19th or 21st centuries; we face the same basic problems that everyone who lives between the Fall and the return of Christ faces.

Keep going until you get good counsel that is persuasive for you that you should go elsewhere.