Practical how-to advice for pastors, church planters, and ministry leaders on personal evangelism and church hospitality
Update: This article gives an overview at welcoming visitors to church. For more specifics, see the series on Welcome Church Visitors that has a few more articles specifically on how to welcome visitors. To stay up to date on our postings about welcoming church visitors Subscribe to … [Read more...]
These are six ways that I’ve seen used to help the church engage the local neighborhood.1. Throw an annual block party. 2. Hold a medical fair in your fellowship hall. 3. Classes on community felt needs – parenting or economics, home ownership. 4. Hold a job and community service … [Read more...]
Do your church visitors know where your front door is?This article at 8 (Or So) Questions About Your Church Signage raises some excellent questions about the signs around your church. No sign creates an embarrassed church visitor At my first church, the visitors were the only ones to use the … [Read more...]
In our presbytery, one of the fastest growing demographics is the Hispanic population.Here are just a few phrases that anyone can use to help a Spanish speaking guest feel welcome. (See No One Said Hello for a Spanish speaking visitor who didn't feel welcome). 1. "Dios le bendiga" with a … [Read more...]
I'm often asked for ideas about helping people grow comfortable in talking about their own faith.In the denominational cirlces I run in, there is a clumsiness, awkwardness, or hesitancy to share about one's own private faith journey. This could be for a variety of reasons:1. It's not a part … [Read more...]
In my seminars and teaching, one question that I ask over and over again:Do you have a faith worth sharing? Do you have friends to share it with?At Every Day With Christ: Take a Look Across the Room, Charlotte Lowrie wonders about taking the time to talk with friends about Christ.Here … [Read more...]
Welcoming I've recently had the joy of connecting with a Spanish speaking small church. It's a small church, bouncing from 15-40 in attendance.Our first visit was sometime last year, maybe October. I'm clearly an American, so I stuck out. (When I visited a 700 member Spanish church in Panama, … [Read more...]
Question: Why Do Atheists Object to Evangelism & Proselytization?This is an interesting article on an atheist oriented site that expresses how some evangelisitic "sharing" comes across to the person we are talking to.The basic contention is that often times, we Christians treat the … [Read more...]
In a post over at Jesus Creed » Letters to Emerging Christians, Scott McKnight does a good analysis of the "Romans Road" as a script for evangelism. He says two things that are worthy of pondering:The third thing now: the Romans Road works for some. It is just as important to say it doesn’t work … [Read more...]
Most churches have an unofficial dress code that visitors don’t know. When a visitor appears to break the dress code, how does your church react? Does your reaction help the mission of evangelism, or does it create an environment that is hostile to evangelism?The “secret” dress codeOne of … [Read more...]
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