The half-hour television program, “This Is Your Bible”, aired every Friday evening on a local cable television station. At the end of each program, viewers were given a 1-800 number to call for free related Bible literature. One viewer was a man who was looking for a church that was biblically sound. He was interested and called in for the free literature. Prompt action on the part of local brethren put the literature into his hands the next week, along with a brochure advertising the imminent start-up of a Learn to Read the Bible Effectively seminar. There wasn’t time to preregister for the seminar. Our television viewer walked in on the opening night with the brochure in his hand. Today he is our brother in Christ.
Our new brother — to say nothing of us! — benefited from a multifaceted preaching program. No single preaching strategy produced his baptism. Television got our Bible message out and made the Christadelphian name known to him. It provided an initial means of contact and a way for him to follow up on his interest. The literature offer and Bible seminar played vital parts. He attended the seminar and continued to attend follow-up Bible studies at the ecclesial hall; strong personal ties were forged with the ecclesia, and he began attending adult Sunday school and Memorial Service — all of these were parts of a multifaceted teaching and learning process. In the end God blessed an entire work, and the man who discovered us on television one Friday evening became a fellow heir of eternal life.
The Origin of the Organic World – Part One