Practical how-to advice for pastors, church planters, and ministry leaders on personal evangelism and church hospitality
This article on using Facebook events is reprinted with persmission from Christian Webtrends (blog.ourchurch.com) to edit for Christmas. It was originally aimed for Easter, but it's just as true for Christmas.The images refer to an Easter service, but you get the idea.Details are … [Read more...]
A regular question I get is "How do you grow a small church?"In our current life situation, we are planting a church in the city in which we live.We are currently a small church, made up primarily of immigrants from foreign countries.Approximately35 adults in attendance each … [Read more...]
A reader contacted me: “Pastor, our small church needs help organizing a Friends and Family day for the end of August to launch our new season. Can you help us?”As we talked further on the phone, we kicked around a few ideas unique to their church, but developed some ideas that are useful to … [Read more...]
Charles Arn has surveyed thousands of people: (Source: 3 Questions for Charles Arn) In your research, have you found that there’s one specific reason that visitors come to church?The friendship factor.We’ve asked more than 50,000 people over the last 10 years why they came to church, … [Read more...]
The short answer: Personal Invitation from a Trusted friend.Charles Arn has surveyed thousands of people: (Source: 3 Questions for Charles Arn) In your research, have you found that there's one specific reason that visitors come to church?The friendship factor.We've asked more than … [Read more...]
Ed Stetzer was interviewed this week by Cathy Lynn Grossman for USA Today about Americans' receptivity to evangelistic contacts and outreach from a church.Lifeway Research and the North American Mission Board surveyed over 15,000 people (read more on this report via Lifeway Research) and they … [Read more...]
In yesterday's article 2 Attitudes for Small Church Transformation, Ron Crandall's study pointed out how evangelism in the small church is rooted in relationships. "Small church approaches to evangelism need to be person centered." Larger churches may have lots of programs to help attract them … [Read more...]
Most of my evangelism training occurs in mainline churches, where many people equate evangelism with Hospitality or Service Projects.Neither one is evangelism per se (For example see, Is Neighborhood Outreach Evangelism?)But there is a marked hesitancy to discuss your faith.That could … [Read more...]
I attended Eric Hoey's (photo to right, link goes to Eric's Blog) workshop on Evangelism and Church growth at the Multi-Cultural Church Conference this past weekend in San Antonio.Among other things, Eric reminded our group about different styles of evangelism connected with your … [Read more...]
Check out this article about the impact a Maryland church is having in its community.Church prays for passion for the lost. McCready and 14 others began praying in January 2002 that God would give them a passion for the non-Christians in their community. In the ensuing six years, nearly 260 … [Read more...]
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