New Contest in Search of Best Soul-Winning Method

By Audrey Barrick, Christian Post Reporter Monday, January 22, 2007

A new contest has kicked off to find some of the best methods of evangelism.

The purpose of the contest is to encourage all believers to take part in the Great Commission and lead people to Christ. The man behind the contest is an average Christian who doesn't know much about how people are saved other than to cheer during altar calls and occasionally help lead someone to Jesus.

Donald Mitchell is a 60-year-old strategy consultant in Boston. He is also a minor celebrity among book buyers and writers for his online book reviews, as Forbes magazine described him.

Mitchell usually attends internet services for Calvary Chapel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. As a youngster, he was a "backslidder" about going to Sunday School, he told The Christian Post in an e-mail, and was regularly evangelized to return. He only began witnessing in the last year or two.

But one day in August 2006, he was moved by a Bill Keller devotional and received a new commission.

"[God] told me to launch a contest to find better ways to save more souls through Jesus by using the 2,000 percent solution process and then to publicize what is learned as widely as possible," Mitchell wrote in his blog.

"I'm very humbled that God wants me to take on this task," he said.

Already, numerous entries on the best and most creative soul-winning methods have been e-mailed, most of which describes programs that operate at much less than one percent of the cost of programs that evangelists "brag about" as being very cost effective, Mitchell added.

More than a decade ago, God had called Mitchell to a project to help the world make 400 years worth of normal progress in the 20 years between 2015 and 2035. Since that calling, he published The 2,000 Percent Solution which describes how to accomplish 20 times the current results with the same effort and resources – The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook and other books on productivity.

Now, he's setting out to co-author The 2,000 Percent Solution for Saving Souls with the winner of his newly launched contest.

The 101 next best solutions to saving souls will be selected and featured in a second book, The 101 Great Solutions for Saving More Souls.

"We tend to think of evangelists and pastors as having this responsibility," said Mitchell, according to Agape Press, "but really it's one that we all have."

"If all Christians do their part, we can create an enormous spread of knowledge about Christianity and our personal experiences with Christianity . . . and allow those who then want to be saved to be saved."

Mitchell hopes to have the books available for Christmas 2007. All profits and royalties from the books will be donated for "implementing the solutions" described in the books.

Contest entries are being accepted until Easter.

Contest rules are available at: www.livespirituallybetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com.