{"id":100880,"date":"2026-01-30T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100880\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T17:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:23:07","slug":"we-fight-for-personal-relationships-intentional-evangelism-bears-for-georgia-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100880\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We fight for personal relationships&#8217;: Intentional evangelism bears for Georgia church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of seven services across three campuses,\u00a0Bethlehem Church in Georgia recently celebrated 33 baptisms within four days. Senior Pastor Jason Britt says the baptisms at Bethlehem Church campuses in Winder, Hoschton and Bishop are the result of intentional gospel conversations, prayer and personal engagement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe there are a lot of conversations before conversions,\u201d Britt explained. \u201cThe larger we become, the more we fight for personal relationships. People want to be known, not just be a face in the crowd. The more intentional we are, the more fruit we continue to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more stories at your doorstep,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/s.thebaptistpaper.org\/BAP\/?f=paid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">subscribe to The Baptist Paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SIGN UP for our weekly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thebaptistpaper.org\/email-newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Highlights emails<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Britt said Bethlehem\u2019s leadership team has worked deliberately to cultivate a church culture where gospel conversations and baptisms are a natural overflow of everyday ministry rather than isolated moments on the calendar.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018No greater celebration\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever you celebrate gets repeated,\u201d Britt pointed out. \u201cThere is no greater celebration at Bethlehem Church than baptism weekends. We believe that every weekend, there is someone giving God one more chance, so we try to think through that lens of creating avenues for gospel conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That intentionality includes prayer teams available after every service and a short gathering for guests called \u201cFirst Step,\u201d where pastors are available to connect personally with newcomers. \u201cWe want to make sure there are clear next steps for everyone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>EDITOR\u2019S NOTE \u2014 This story was written by Henry Durand and originally published by <a href=\"https:\/\/christianindex.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the Christian Index<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the course of seven services across three campuses,\u00a0Bethlehem Church in Georgia recently celebrated 33 baptisms within four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-100880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}