Extraction Evangelism!

A good example of the problems of an evangelism-driven church can be found in Argentina, a country that has been experiencing revival since roughly 1982 when it lost a war with Great Britain. Gifted evangelists like Carlos Annacondia, Hector Gimenez, and Omar Cabrera sprang up at that time and had massive evangelistic rallies of almost unheard-of proportions, counting the “decisions for Christ” by the tens of thousands. However, since that time these men have had to honestly ask themselves where all those people are now. Pastors in a
Argentina have found it difficult to incorporate the many people who made decisions for Christ into existing or newly planted churches.

A September 1996 study done by DAWN Ministries revealed that Argentina then had one of the lowest church-planting rates in Latin America. The large number of converts had simply not translated into church growth. There must be a missing link. “Evangelism which pulls individuals out of their family context and provides no new context is half-baked and may well do more harm than good,” says Australian missiologist Alan Tippet.’"

(The House Church Book. Wolfgang Simson. Barna, 2009, pg xiv)