What is your evangelism style?Do you prefer to warn the stranger of their sin by open air evangelism?Do you prefer to wait until some one asks you for the reason you believe?Or maybe you prefer to invite people to your church where they can find a community of believers to help them grow in their discovery of Christ.If you're the … [Read more...]
No church wants to give a bad experience to their first time visitor or returning guest.When visitors have a bad experience with your church, often your error is something unintentional. What does it take to be a great church greeter? Church Greeters play an important role in your hospitality ministry, but some need some training.In … [Read more...]
If you had a $2500 budget to spend on improving your church for a better welcome, where would you spend it?This could be a great discussion starter for your hospitality committee to help reveal some dreams and vision development. Use it as a brainstormer an capture the ideas. If you had $2500 to spend, what would you do with it to improve … [Read more...]
Zondervan has placed the NIV Application Commentary Series on sale for only $4.99 each through May 20th. I have this entire collection in hardback, and rejoice that they've thrown this to the kindle on a deep discount.The first column is for the US Market.The second is for Canadians.OLD … [Read more...]
Some doubt the effectiveness of their prayers because they are uncertain if they arefollowing the correct format, obeying all the right rules, and fulfilling all the necessary requirements for God to hear them and answer their prayer.Nagging doubts about rules and formulas shape their perceptions of prayer.But the spiritual … [Read more...]
While I am teaching in Nicaragua this week, one of my pastor friends has graciously allowed me to share this article with you all. It's from a class he is teaching on personal Evangelism.The 4 P’s and Evangelism John 20:19-23 The mere mention of the word “evangelism” often has the ability to instill the strongest adult with … [Read more...]
Here is one of my favorite questions: Our hospitality ministry is SOOOOO lacking.What can we do to fix it? I love answering questions from readers like you, particularly in response to reading my "7 Secrets of Effective Hospitality" report that you get for subscribing to my newsletter (Why Subscribe?)Based on some descriptions that … [Read more...]
Of the various different evangelism styles, I tend to lean towards a conversational style that can be effective in both contact evangelism as well as incarnational evangelism.If you want to read some books that focus on relational evangelism, here my favorite list of 10 books on Relational Evangelism.Life-Style Evangelism: Crossing … [Read more...]
Here is a common email I receive (composed from various ones): I'm having a hard time finding volunteers who believe in the ministry of hospitality. They think everyone should be doing this automatically.Our church doesn't have enough people who are interested in being greeters. We can't get any volunteers. .We've not ever organized our … [Read more...]
Next week (April 16-22, 2013), I'll return to Nicaragua on another teaching trip, particularly to the cities ofJinotega Matagalpa.I teach for a ministry called PRMI (Presbyterian Reformed Ministries International).I serve as their Missions Faculty for the Americas and have the joy of helping grow their work in Latin … [Read more...]
Looking for recorded teachings of EvangelismCoach or on-line Ebooks that he has written?See this list of e-books, MP3, DVDs, and CD recordings related to hospitality and personal evangelism. Over … [Shop here...]
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