Practical how-to advice for pastors, church planters, and ministry leaders on personal evangelism and church hospitality
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...]
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...]
I spent time giving some evangelism coaching a church yesterday.The questions of the day revolved around finding and meeting community needs.A majority of church members are no longer within 5 miles of the neighborhood that has transitioned from blue collar to immigrant. As such, there is … [Read more...]
I’ve been reading Evangelism Where You Live: Engaging Your Community and I think it is a must read book for pastors of churches seeking to engage its community.See Part I of Evangelism Where You Live - A Review Part ISee Part II of Evangelism Where You Live - A Review Part IIThis final … [Read more...]
I’ve been reading Evangelism Where You Live: Engaging Your Community and I think it is a must read book for pastors of churches seeking to engage its community.Over the next few days leading up to the Community Based Servant Evangelism Webinar, I’ll be pulling out a few themes. A philosophy … [Read more...]
One of my loyal readers (via RSS feed) wrote an interesting post: Today, I had coffee with a friend of mine who said, "I don't believe that it is my responsibility to share the gospel." He just wanted to live his life in such a way that people would be attracted to that example and hopefully come … [Read more...]
Servant Evangelism Steve Sjogren, in Scattering, Watering, and then...Waiting reminds us about how the role of the evangelist: Jesus said that the Holy Spirit is like the wind – he (not IT – please, never refer to the Holy Spirit as “it” – that is incredibly offensive to him) is not one … [Read more...]
Every now and then, I put up a series of links that simply reflect some of the reading that I do. Nathan Eshleman at Presbyterian Thoughts raises a provocative question about how the Church and Illegal Immigrants. Having personally been involved in the immigrant community, and … [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...]
Looking for an idea to engage your neighborhood? Read about Saturday in the Community at The Blind Beggar. (Photo from the Website).The last church I was with does something similar at Christmas time. Local churches donate toys that are sold in the local low-income community. Proceeds buy more toys … [Read more...]
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