«But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.»Matthew 9:36
One life at a time
The Great Commission
«He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.”»Mark 16:15
«Go and make disciples of all nations.»Matthew 28:19
Almost no Christian evangelizes. Not for lack of love: for not knowing how to start or what to say. SimplePlan4 provides the words, the verses and the order. You provide the life.
What it is
A tool to present the gospel of Jesus Christ simply, clearly and directly, one to one or in small groups. You do half the work; SimplePlan4 does the other half.
SimplePlan4 does two things, and both weigh the same: evangelizing and discipling. The Great Commission does not only say «preach the gospel»; it says «make disciples». Winning a person and then leaving them alone is doing half the job.
There are many creative ways to evangelize, but nothing replaces presenting the Plan of Salvation in a way that is understandable, complete and personal — the way you do it with SimplePlan4.
Why it exists
None of them is an opinion. Behind each one there is a number, and behind each number, people.
The World Health Organization counts 332 million people living with depression and 727,000 suicides in a single year. Behind every figure there is someone who gets up in the morning without knowing what for. The world offers everything except an answer to the question of what a life is for. SimplePlan4 puts that answer in your pocket, ready to be given in ten minutes to the person standing in front of you.
3.62 billion people — 44% of humanity — live among peoples the gospel has never reached. They have not rejected it: nobody has told them. Two thousand years later the task is still half done. SimplePlan4 puts the Plan of Salvation in 50 languages, free and offline, on the phone of any Christian anywhere in the world.
Two out of three Christians know no method at all for talking to someone about Jesus, and seven out of ten have not done it in six months. It is not a lack of love: it is a lack of a tool. SimplePlan4 gives you four verses, a short explanation and the prayer. Nothing to memorize, no course to sit through: you open the App and you read.
44% of Christians would avoid a conversation about faith for fear of being rejected. That fear has buried more testimonies than all the persecution in history put together. SimplePlan4 carries the weight for you: it is not you improvising, it is the Word speaking and you simply walking alongside. When the person reads the verse in his own voice, faith comes by hearing.
In 1993, nine out of ten Christians believed that evangelism was their own job. Today it is six out of ten, and those who say it is the church's job have tripled. The Great Commission was given to everyone, not only to the men in the pulpit. SimplePlan4 hands the task back to every believer and gives him something to do it with.
Jesus did not say “preach”: he said “make disciples”. A newborn nobody feeds does not grow, it dies; and that is how most of what is won gets lost. SimplePlan4 does not end at the prayer: it goes on with three modules and twenty lessons that carry the new believer from his first day to being able to explain the sixteen fundamental doctrines.
If you evangelize on your own all your life, you add. If you teach someone else to evangelize, you multiply. The early church reached the known world with no buildings, no money and no technology, because every believer trained another. SimplePlan4 trains the one who was reached to do the same with his own ten names. That is the whole secret.
The first half · The method
The App's ring is not decoration: each colour is one of the steps, and they are always walked through in the same order. Ten minutes, read with the person in front of you.
«But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name.»John 1:12
Each step has its full verse and its explanation inside the App, in the language of whoever is using it. At the end comes the prayer, and it records who it was, when, and what they decided.
The second half · What almost nobody does
The Great Commission does not only say “preach the gospel”; it says “make disciples”.
That is why Discipleship weighs as much in this App as the 4 Steps.
The languages
50languages
The App opens by itself in the phone's language. The four steps, the Discipleship and the Multiplication are complete in all fifty, and no verse is typed by hand: they all come from the official Bible file of that language.
Español490 · Inglés380 · Portugués240 · Criollo haitiano12
Ruso150 · Alemán76 · Francés74 · Italiano65 · Polaco40 · Ucraniano33 · Neerlandés24 · Húngaro13 · Checo10 · Sueco10 · Serbio9 · Croata7 · Danés6 · Albanés6 · Finlandés5 · Noruego5
Hausa54 · Yoruba46 · Igbo31 · Somalí22 · Suajili16
Árabe310 · Turco84
Hindi345 · Bengalí240 · Panyabí113 · Maratí83 · Telugu83 · Tamil79 · Urdu70 · Guyaratí57 · Canarés44 · Malayalam36 · Odia35 · Asamés15
Chino mandarín940 · Japonés123 · Vietnamita85 · Coreano81 · Indonesio43 · Birmano33 · Tagalo28 · Tailandés21 · Cebuano20 · Ilocano8 · Hiligainón7
Speaker figures are for native speakers, according to the most recent estimates. Cada lengua con su versión: Español, Versión Biblia Libre · Inglés, World English Bible · Portugués, Bíblia Livre · Árabe, الكتاب المقدس — فان دايك · Hindi, पवित्र बाइबल (IRV) · Chino mandarín, 和合本 — y así los cincuenta, cada uno nombrado dentro de la App.
What is inside
Presenting the Plan of Salvation is the beginning. The follow-up, the discipleship, the teaching, and that person doing the same with others: that is what turns a decision into a disciple.
It installs like an App on the phone, works without signal, and your data follows you to your phone, tablet and computer.
How it is used
For pastors and leaders
In almost every church, evangelism is preached from the pulpit and handed over to a campaign twice a year. The rest of the year, most members do not speak to anyone about Christ. It is not for lack of love: the moment comes, and they do not know how to begin, which verse to use, in what order, or what to do afterwards.
SimplePlan4 does not ask them for a course, or a new programme, or more of your time. It puts the words, the verses, the order and the prayer in their phone. Ten minutes, read with the person in front of them.
A member who presents the Plan of Salvation once discovers that they can — and does it again. That is where a congregation begins to change: not when the pastor evangelizes more, but when the members stop believing that this is not for them.
Planters around the world
We call those who use SimplePlan4 Planters: they sow the gospel where they live.
Planters by country
Every dot is a Planter who registered and said which country they live in.
* This is what the Planters recorded in their App, not a count verified by anyone. It only counts those who filled in their profile.
What it costs
No ads, no required account, no paid version. Not now and not ever.
Giving
Choose how you would like to give
Send your offering by Zelle to the number:
+1 305-497-7673
Iglesia Hispana de América
Offerings cover the cost of the technology used to build, maintain and release the updates of this app, and some administrative expenses.
The email
Short teachings on evangelism, testimonies of what God is doing, and news about the App. Nothing else.
You request it from your profile, inside the App, by ticking the newsletter box. You cancel it from the bottom of any of the emails. Being on the Planters map and receiving the email are two different things: you can have one without the other.
The founder
“My purpose with SimplePlan4 is not to give you one more tool for evangelism; it is to offer you a biblical system, proven across the centuries, that any Christian can use with ease.”
Eduardo Julca — Peruvian, living in the United States. Pastor, writer, conference speaker, app developer, husband, father and grandfather. He believes life is too short to live without focus, and too precious not to give to what truly matters.