Lectureship - Restoring Our Passion for the Lost — Neal Pollard
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Lesson Summary
Brother Neil Pollard opened the class by recounting his experiences in Colorado and his love of geography, then shifted to a thorough overview of the Restoration Movement’s history. He described how the Great Awakening spurred believers to return to the Scriptures, naming key figures such as Alexander and Thomas Campbell, Barton W. Stone, and the early publications like The Christian Evangelist that aimed to restore New Testament Christianity. Pollard emphasized that the movement’s conviction that the message must be biblically correct inevitably produced a fervent passion to share that message with the lost. The teacher then grounded the lesson in Scripture, highlighting Romans 9:3, 1 Corinthians 9:16, and especially Acts 1:1‑8, where Jesus commissions the disciples to become witnesses "in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." He traced the early church’s evangelistic momentum through Acts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and the scattering described in Acts 8:4, illustrating that the same Spirit‑empowered zeal continues today. The class concluded with a call for each participant to restore their own passion for evangelism, aligning personal commitment with the historic and biblical mandate to reach the lost.