Practical how-to advice for pastors, church planters, and ministry leaders on personal evangelism and church hospitality
From Timmy Brister's Blog: Evangelism, Calvinism, and the SBC « Provocations & Pantings According the 2006 Annual Church Profile (ACP), there are 44,223 churches in the Southern Baptist Convention. 10,449 churches baptized NO ONE 3,312 churches baptized ONE PERSON … [Read more...]
As mentioned in one of the prior define evangelism articles, we shared a brief description of the Gospel from Scot McKnight's book Embracing Grace: A Gospel for All of Us (order from Amazon).I have finished reading McKnight's book and want to share some of my thoughts on it. Prof. McKnight was … [Read more...]
I wrote the following essay to a friend while I was traveling to a friend's funeral two years ago. It covers several points around what is evangelism. Is it more than four points and a prayer?I've edited it slightly for time references and removed some personal matters, but thought I'd share … [Read more...]
On a message board that I frequent, a user asked for a review of Becoming a Contagious Christian, Hybels and Mittleberg. Below is what I shared. I used the materials when they were popular in the 90s. They may have been updated since then, so my review will be based on the original.I also, … [Read more...]
If you haven't done it already, what is your church's evangelism strategy for 2008?Have you set measurable evangelism goals?I met a pastor last week who was telling me that their church will be focused on Evangelism as one of their top priorities in 2008. He has invited me to come in my … [Read more...]
Dever's article that we reviewed (What Evangelism Isn't) made the point that Evangelism is not only personal testimony. Personal testimony is part of evangelism (it is one aspect of the joyfully sharing part). I found a website that collects Bible Impact Stories. It is run maintained by … [Read more...]
Our definition of evangelism (from the PCUSA) has both:A message to share ("joyfully sharing the good news of the sovereign love of God) A destination ("calling people to . . . . . ")The good news is the gospel. This is what gospel means in its most basic form: "good news."However, … [Read more...]
As the new year begins, I want to revisit a working definition of evangelism. For some background as to what we have used as a definition of evangelism, read our evangelism definition from April of 07.To recall, I use the PC (USA)'s definition of evangelism Joyfully sharingthe good … [Read more...]
Some time ago, I came across an outline of some hints about prayer walking. It mixes prayer, with walking a neighborhood, and inviting God to transform that place and the people who live there. Here are some ways you can prayerwalk (Adapted from Follow Me: Becoming a Lifestyle … [Read more...]
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