Ron Clouzet
Ron E. M. Clouzet, DMin, has been a professor, academic administrator, and foreign missionary overseeing thousands of pastors. He is currently a pastor at the East Ridge Seventh-day Adventist Church, East Ridge, Tennessee, United States.
Articles by Ron Clouzet
What is praying in the Spirit?
May 2025
When the 70 had returned from their evangelistic mission and shared with Jesus their success, “Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and said, ‘I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent…
A plan to mentor new believers
October 2022
There is a general thought that most believers baptized at evangelistic meetings do not stay in the church. The truth is that those born in the church leave at much higher rates than converts from direct evangelism.
Nevertheless,…
How to organize your church for evangelism
June/July 2022
Every pastor knows the Great Commission, but not every pastor or church has had a great experience partaking in it. Some churches do evangelism because it is expected, but either their heart is not in it, their planning is inadequate, or…
What the church needs to effectively evangelize the world
October 2020
With the second decade of the twenty-first century being engulfed in crises, a key question is, what do people want or need from the church? Recently I wrote about “the evangelism diamond.”1 In this model, the church first must…
The evangelism diamond: A model for successful evangelism
August 2020
The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.”1 This well-known phrase, applied to many aspects of life, including business, may also…
God’s longing for His church
January 2020
I never tire of telling the story of the Seventh-day Adventist church in Murmansk, Russia, high above the arctic circle. The church was only 22 members strong, but due to attrition, it whittled down to 8: the pastor, his wife, and six men.…
Evangelism and retention myths
April 2019
After leading and teaching evangelism for 25 years and in several countries on three different continents, I have seen some misguided views about the practice of evangelism. I call them myths. What follows are a few of them and why they are…
The purpose and power of ministry: A pastor’s journey
January 2018
To be a pastor means to love others more than one’s self. But that was my problem: I did not love others more than myself. Two of my uncles were pastors. One was erudite and self-sacrificing; the other was a key leader in the church, loved…
The Spirit in your life: Conditions for endowment (part 2 of 2)1
September 2011
What does it take to be endowed with the Spirit of God? In the July issue, we explored four of the seven conditions for the reception of the Spirit, as revealed in the New Testament: repentance, implicit trust, obedience, and a burden for…
The Spirit in your life: conditions for endowment (part 1 of 2)*
July 2011
As a young man, I attended a charismatic church service on the outskirts of town. Being raised in a conservative Protestant denomination, I suspected the experience would be quite different than my usual fare, but I was ready for a new adventure.
The…
Doing evangelism when no one seems to care
August 2009
Editor’s note: The church needs to know the attitude of people toward religion and church in order to fulfill its mission. The author focuses on sobering trends in one part of the world, although readers need to realize…