Darrell Davis points out how many conversations that Jesus had.
Out of 132 contacts that Jesus had with people recorded in the New Testament, 6 were in the temple, 4 were in the synagogue, and 122 were out in the mainstream of life. (Adapted from Why Christians Sin, by J.K Johnson, Discovery [...]

Awesome Book Lists

Books for beginning missionaries
Jeff Gilbertson adds his: Top 10 Reading List
EvangelismCoach: Top Recommended Personal Evangelism Books for 2009

Other cool links

North American Mission Board posts conversational tips to keep a conversation moving.
Resisting Evangelistic Entropy – Networking tips for church planters.  I like some of the intentional “drop ins” to make relational connetctions.

From Goodmanson’s talk [...]

[Note: This is an update to Sharing Your Faith during Thanksgiving 2007]
Thanksgiving weekend in the United States America typically involves

large family gatherings,
more food than one could eat,
and for some families, hours of discussions about football and the weather (that may seem meaningless),
and rehashing old family stories.

For others, thanksgiving weekend might be a time to

visit friends
serve [...]

Today’s guest article is by Ed Cyzewski, author of Coffeehouse Theology: Reflecting on God in Everyday Life.
I’m doing a lot of travel and speaking here at the end of October and a few of my friends are helping me out with guest posts.
Addressing the “What works for me” Paradox
When I discuss my faith with someone [...]

Personal evangelism can be as normal as breathing.
Don’t believe me?
I had an appointment with a friend, but he canceled it.
He changed his mind, forgot to tell me, and showed up anyway.
While drinking coffee with him, he began talking about his spiritual life.
He started it.  I listened.
He described the emptiness he felt inside.
He described how he [...]

I found a book review on a book called Reimagining Evangelism: Inviting Friends on a Spiritual Journey.
I knew that I need to put this on the reading list for me and quickly acquired it.  If I was an evangelism professor at a school, this book would be required reading.
No more sales pitch!
Something that has always [...]

Note: Over the next few days, I’ll be sharing some thoughts on postmodernism and evangelism.  To keep the articles readable and short, they are spread out over a few days.  Grab the RSS feed to get new articles automatically.
When I went to seminary, great importance was placed on Systematic Theology.  I read works by

Wayne Grudem, [...]

Small groups are a great place to find help and encouragement in sharing Christ with nonbelievers.
I propose one accountability group as an Evangelism Training Small Group.
Here is a sample 6 week group.
Week One

Read together Mt. 28:18-20 and Acts 1:8. Use a flip chart or poster paper to list as many observations as you can from [...]

A moment with strangers
Have you ever been with a group of people and felt like you just needed to talk to that person over there?
A sense that God was pointing out that particular person?
Phillip (in the story of Phillip and the Ethiopian Eunuch) was prompted to “Go Stand next to THAT chariot.”  Of all the [...]

Subtext has a great article ( “Gospel Connections in Suburbia”) that has conversational tips
The problem posed is
How can I take a natural conversation about common things and connect it to the gospel without it coming off like an abrupt topic change?
The farther the distance between the subject matter at hand and the gospel, the more [...]

(Note: Join us for some practical faith sharing ideas at our upcoming free Webinar with Bill Tenny-Brittian March 26.  Bill’s book Hitchhiker’s Guide To Evangelism is full of more practical relationship building ideas.)
Continuing in our series Building New Relationships, we turn today to the third Sphere of Influence: Where do you play?
Where do you play?
Consider [...]

Our  Relational Evangelism series:

Part 1:  Do you have any non-Christian Friendships?

Part 2: Drifting Away from the World that eventually isolates us from the world and surrounds us with only Christian friends.

Are we called to isolate ourselves?
One reaction to the culture is to isolate ourselves:

Christian social networks,
Christian business,
see only Christian movies,
listen to Christian radio, and
attend the [...]

The most liberating portion of our teaching on evangelism is showing the advance working of the Holy Spirit.  In this presentation you can see how the Holy Spirit prepares the way for your evangelistic conversation.
Holy Spirit and Evangelism
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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 [...]