Book Review: Untamed Alan Hirsch

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"There are two kinds of people in the world: those who live the adventure, and those who only read about others living the adventure."Alan Hirsch lives the adventure of being a follower of Jesus.  His experiences and learnings show clearly in his writings, and even more so in this book written … [Read more...]

Contact Evangelism as we do it

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Following up from the previous postsThe Perceptions of Contact Evangelism Contact Evangelism Gone WildI want to share how I practice contact evangelism. The Phillip Model of Evangelism: Based on the model of Phillip and the Eunuch, we'll look for opportunities that are based onthe … [Read more...]

Contact Evangelism Gone Wild

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As I mentioned in my previous post on contact evangelism as a evangelism method, I share my thoughts on how to train people and evangelists who are scared of this methodology.How do I help such people improve their personal evangelism skills?By far, when I ask people about their evangelism … [Read more...]

Prepping A Church for Door to Door Evangelism

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A church on invited me out last weekend to prepare their team to go door to door.I thought I was invited to give my workshop on personal evangelism.Because of some miscommunication, I didn’t realize that this was my expected purpose until it was too late.The organizer mentioned that 53 … [Read more...]

Guest Article Getting beyond the walls

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Today's Guest Article is from my friend who has served as our translator during our Nicaragua mission trips.Earl and his family have been serving as church planters in Nicaragua for years, and he shares with us some reflections on getting out of the church walls.Here you go. . . . . . . … [Read more...]

Book Review of Outflow

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Outflow, written by Steve Sjogren and David Ping, is a group study book aimed at small groups that want to try their hand at servant evangelism, a methodology of evangelism that emphasizes random acts of kindness.The main metaphor in Outflow is the concentric circles of a multi-tiered fountain, … [Read more...]

The Prayer Station at Faith in Action Sunday

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Pastors Alan and Debbie Kemp recently led their church into a Faith in Action Sunday, following a program that has been developed by World Vision.They chose to take their regular Sunday service and move it to the front lawn of the their church -- going to the streets, so to speak.Their … [Read more...]

How to Setup a Prayer Station

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One way that you can discover your community need is through setting up prayer stations at your outreach events.For example, we did one at a dental fair where we partnered with the local dental school to give free cleanings to kids (Photos below).Making this prayer station service available … [Read more...]

The Reciprocal Church

Dr. Kevin Yoho,General Presbyter Newark Presbytery has put together a presentation called The Reciprocal Church.I like what he's done in calling "the church" back into the nieghborhood, using the idea of reciprocity.Does the church give benefit to the community in exchange for the investment … [Read more...]

How Pastors Can Lead Congregational Evangelism #5

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For the last part of our series Coaching Congregational Evangelism, I want to share some very practical advice a church planter gave me. "Evangelism doesn't just happen.  You've got to do it." I was asking him how he grew his church from scratch in a few months (I no longer remember the exact … [Read more...]