Practical how-to advice for pastors, church planters, and ministry leaders on personal evangelism and church hospitality
The next series of posts will look at a few of the scripts I have used.My default setting is the Bridge Illustration.The Bridge Illustration is the one that I use the most often. When I was a youth pastor, reviewed with my teenagers at least once every three months. No one left our youth … [Read more...]
In our personal evangelism seminars, I have found that most participants have heard of a particular gospel script and think they know how to use it.The practiceSince I use the Bridge Illustration as my default setting, I use it in training others with a little practice exercise.I use a … [Read more...]
Gospel scripts have their role to play in helping to explain the gospel simply and clearly. Over the years, various scripts have been developed, such asFour Spiritual Laws The Bridge (see How to Use the Bridge Illustration) Evangecube (see Evangecube video) Way of the Master Romans … [Read more...]
Printed AnnouncementsMany churches still use a bulletin or program to share the news of community life.Do you proofread your announcements? Is the font easy to read? Does the bulletin appear professional (not a 7th generation photocopy) Are contact names and phone numbers included? … [Read more...]
Stop Being a Friendly Church challenges the church with an interesting twist on hospitality (thanks to Tony Whitaker for highlighting this in the April Web Evangelism Bulletin). Essentialy, quit trying to be a "friendly church" and be a church "where you can make friends." There is a big … [Read more...]
I'd like to welcome the several new subscribers to our monthly newsletter and several new subscribers via RSS feed.I got a email last month from a subscriber that I have made confused between these two forms of communication. Perhaps blogs and feeds are new to you. Allow me to introduce the … [Read more...]
I was recently asked about the use of questions in spiritual conversations. How do you get an evangelistic conversation started? Check out the questions category for some articles that have a free download.I found this article from That Guy with the Nametag about 62 types of questions and … [Read more...]
I found this interesting press release the other day. (Source: Presbyterians focus on ascension and evangelism). In case it's taken down, here is most of the text. See my comments below the article. At 10:30 a.m. worship on Sunday, May 4, in both sermon and song, Tyrone Presbyterians will … [Read more...]
What kind of impression do visitors get when they come into your church for the first time? Every church thinks it's friendly. But I and many others have experienced the fear factor of walking into an unknown place and knowing immediately that we don't fit and are not really … [Read more...]
You've got to see this collect. Fellow Blogger Tony Sisk seems to find some good ones. I thought the ones I found were just about as awful as can be, but this one takes the cake (the one in the image about 1/2 down): The Rambling Prophet: Lousy Church Signs!!!. Don't let it mess up … [Read more...]
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