Free Evangelism Resources and Most Popular Posts

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I'll join the bandwagon of many of the blogs I read and reveal to you the Ten most popular posts based on pageviews during 2007.Conversion Stories in the NT: Phillip and the Ethiopian Eunuch (Part of the Conversion in the NT Series) Evangelism Oozing from our Pores (on motivations) Define … [Read more...]

Outreach Idea: Church offers free coffee on Mondays

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Here is an outreach idea that a church is doing, in response to their local situation:Church offers free coffee on Mondays.The idea is to provide a gathering spot, a relational context where evangelism can naturally happen. Visitors do get a card with church information.While not … [Read more...]

Friday Finds

A great question about the gospel and evangelistic methods. Do many methods strip the gospel of its riches through oversimplification?An article from an athiest about unconvincing arguments for God. It's a good read if you want to examine your witness.The Engle scale – Is evangelism a … [Read more...]

Friday Finds

From the bookshelf: I'm currently readingLogic of Evangelism by William J. Abraham, and Finding Common Ground: How to Communicate With Those Outside the Christian Community...While We Still Can by Tim Downs.Questions for EvangelismVanguard church writes an article called … [Read more...]

Tool: Look for God’s activity

Doing evangelism can be as simple as telling stories about God’s activity in your life.Telling personal and current stories is but one piece of evangelism.As discussed in our definition series, The PCUSA General Assembly adopted a definition of evangelism in 1990 that defines evangelism … [Read more...]

Definition of Evangelism – A Summary

I have tried to compile in one article all the links to a definition that we've been discussing on EvangelismCoach.orgThere are many definitions of evangelism. Searching the web and my library for definitions, I find some are so wide to cover anything related to growing a church, some are so … [Read more...]

More Evangelism Definitions Part 2

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I've continued to collect definitions of evangelism from various websites.(Note: For the beginning of our articles about a definition of evangelism, see "What is Evangelism Part 1.")From the Episcopal Church General Convention: Evangelism is "the presentation of Jesus Christ, in the power … [Read more...]

Friday’s Collection . . . .

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New Reading I got my new stack of books in this week. I'm currently reading They Like Jesus but Not the Church: Insights from Emerging Generations by Dan Kimball about ministry to the Emerging Generation. I'm drinking it up and will likely be writing about it next week.Pray with Me My little article … [Read more...]

More definitions of Evangelism

For more in our series “What is evangelism?” Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5More definitions 1 More definitions 2Over on PomoMusings, a discussion about the evangelism and gospel soliciting reader definitions is in progress. I've enjoyed the discussion over there and encourage … [Read more...]

What is Evangelism? — Part 5

I appreciate some of the comments received so far.I’ll wrap up the discussion on our evangelism definition by simply highlighting the last part of the definition of evangelism that I use. Joyfully sharing the good news of the sovereign love of God, and calling peopleto repentance, … [Read more...]