Practical how-to advice for pastors, church planters, and ministry leaders on personal evangelism and church hospitality
Press releases can be free publicity for your church as part of your marketing.Church press releases are remarkably simple to do once you understand some basic points and setup a distribution system for your church press release. How 1st PC Uses Press Releases I recently spoke with Richard … [Read more...]
"Where do you go to church?" inquires the barber cutting my hair.I'm sitting in the barber's chair, getting the personal haircut that has been needed since the last day I left that chair nearly 3 months ago. I try my best to get the same barber every time to nurture a contact … [Read more...]
Prayer sensitizes us to subtle changes in the landscape of our circumstances. – Andy Stanley, Visioneering. Seeing the harvest fieldA few nights ago, I took a flight home, back to the city where I live. The flight path of our final descent runs us parallel to the city. I got to sit in … [Read more...]
I’ve recently read Living Dangerously: Seven Keys to Intentional Discipleship by Shawn Anderson. If you are looking for some serious study and research on conversion and how that helps your evangelism work, this book contains it.He writes: Realizing that members of the church were not … [Read more...]
Want to grow your church attendance by 20% this year?I once coached a church that set that as their goal. Is it realistic? Visitors are the key to growing your church. Without keeping visitors, your church will not grow, nor will it replace the members who drop out, move, or die.The key … [Read more...]
Jesus saw the crowds.He felt compassion for them.Because they were as sheep without a shepherd.Then Matthew adds: "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest," (Matt. 9:37-38). See the … [Read more...]
Jesus saw the crowds.Jesus felt compassion for the crowds.Matthew explains why. Chapter 9 verse 36: When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Sometimes I wonder how I see people who are without Christ. I … [Read more...]
"Still other seed fell on good soil.It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times." (Mark 4:8)I've recently been meditating on the parable of the sower (Mark 4:1-8), or the parable of the soils (Matthew 13:1-9)Jesus uses lots of farming … [Read more...]
When Jesus saw the crowds, his heart broke. Matthew 9:36 reads When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. He had compassion on them.To put it another way, he felt compassion for them.I can imagine the heart of … [Read more...]
I'm brave enough to try and create a prayer guide for personal evangelism over the next 30 days.This will give you insight into how I am praying this month for the work of evangelism in my life. Am I too busy to see? Day 1: Matthew 9:35-36Jesus and his disciples were busy doing ministry, … [Read more...]
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