Bibliography for PC USA Transformational Pastors

At the Transformational Pastor's Gathering, I have referenced many different books.Here is a downloadable bibliography in a PDF format.If you use the links embedded in the PDF to purchase your copies from Amazon, Evangelismcoach will receive an affiliate fee from anything you order when … [Read more...]

Seattle WA Personal Evangelism Training Conference

In late October, I am scheduled to go to Faith Community Fellowship Church in Mt. Vernon Washington, to help facilitate a 4 day workshop on personal evangelism, as part of the Dunamis Course series for Presbyterian Reformed Ministries International (www.prmi.org).The Evangelism Dunamis in the … [Read more...]

Remarkable Growth

I have been amazed about the rapid growth of the website over the last 9 months of this year.  I remember waiting for the moment of the first 10,000 page views.  Took almost 12 months.  Then it would take 3-4 months. Here in September, there were 10,000 page views for the month and … [Read more...]

PC USA Transformation Conference Part II

Here is part II of the conference.  See PC USA Pastors Conference Part I.If you wish to link to this presentation, please link to http://www.evangelismcoach.org/2008/pc-usa-transformation-conference-part-ii How to do Evangelism in the Local Church View SlideShare presentation or Upload your … [Read more...]

PC USA Pastors Conference

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I've had the joy of being with about 65 pastors these last few days, conducting Evangelism Training for the Presbyterian Church (USA).As promised, here is part I of the slide shows.  If you choose to link to the slides for your church website or newsletter, please use this link: … [Read more...]

Moving from Attractional to Missional

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I've spent the last month talking with pastors around the US about church transformation.  A few pastors are in really difficult situations (read more at: Leaving Egypt and Not Liking it).From those discussions, it seems that a common meaning of church transformation is Church transformation … [Read more...]

Friday Finds Sept 26 2008

Campus Crusade for Christ puts out a weekly newsletter,  particularly for those ministering on a college campus.  It has practical tips, and planning reminders (such as make sure you are planning now for your fall retreat if you haven't gotten started). Here are a few links from this … [Read more...]

How One Church Re-engaged the Neighborhood

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What can we do to survive? Thus began a conversation ten years ago with a dying church in a transitional neighborhood.The church invited me to do some Evangelism Consulting with them about launching a new worship service.That topic was the buzz of the time and the church leaders simply … [Read more...]

24 hours with a broken plugin

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Over the last 24 hours, one of my wordpress plugins broke. Not sure why it broke, but it killed the website.  Traffic came to a screeching halt at 2.30pm CST yesterday. At the same time, my host had a hardware problem which crashed their server for several hours.  Yet all my other … [Read more...]

Identifying Barriers to Personal Evangelism

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I was cleaning out my file cabinet this week (isn't that fun?).Actually, I found a lot of stuff that I had forgotten I had, and of course, lots of useless junk that went straight to the shredder.A clipped article about Microsoft Certification from 1993? How about a marriage … [Read more...]