I found an interesting post at Farming the Field blog that looks at the types of evangelistic encounters that were had in the New Testament.
The author is a teacher of Ray Comfort’s material from the way of the Master. He cites a book that looks at contact evangelism, a popular style in that method.
Contact evangelism [...]

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 [...]

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 of Ministry
The foundational drive of this [...]

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.
What’s not working?
The authors ask:
Why Aren’t Our Efforts [...]

(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 [...]

(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 second Sphere of Influence: Where do you work.
In Bill Tenny-Brittian’s Hitchhiker’s [...]

Picking up from the Last post (Spheres of Influence), here is one example of taking a look at where do you live as a sphere of influence:
This example comes from Bill Tenny-Brittian, Hitchhiker’s Guide To Evangelism
Several years ago we moved into a planned subdivision that hosts over 5,000 homes.
I was a church planter launching a [...]

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 [...]

Are you familiar with this statistic?
There are so few North American Christians practicing evangelism that it takes an average of eighty-five church members one full year to bring one Wanderer to the faith.  Additionally, according to the World Christian Encyclopedia, the church spends $1,551,466 for each new convert.
Why are so few Christians sharing their faith effectively?
You [...]

In They like Jesus, but not the Church, even Dan Kimball confesses that he made the same discovery at one point– no non-Christian relationships.
As I have given relational evangelism training seminars around the US and Latin America, the most common confession I hear from those who have walked with Christ for many years
I don’t have [...]

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“I have no non-Christian relationships” confessed one of my evangelism coaching clients (shared with permission).
“I was taking an inventory of my personal relationships and discovered that I had surrounded myself entirely with Christians.”
In the Christian Cocoon
This is a common description of many Christians who have been walking with the Lord for many years.
I [...]

Some glimpse in the the mind set of the US.
While the government reports numbers, you likely know a real face, a real story, a real person who is behind these statistics.
Do you know someone affected by these numbers?  How can you communicate the peace of Christ to them?  Read on.
Job Losses
In January, 598,000 workers [...]

This weekend, one of my friends shared with  me a first hand story about an evangelistic encounter he had.  
I found myself encouraged as I listened to it.  Here is a one who gets the idea of cooperating with the work of the Holy Spirit. 
I’ve retold the story here for your thoughts and for your [...]

Bill Tenny-Brittain wrote an article entitled “The Stewardship of Friends” published in May/June 08 of NetResults.org magazine. 
It is excerpted from his book Hitchhiker’s Guide to Evangelism, available from Chalice Press in fall 2008. 
I had the chance to read Bill’s book prior to publishing and am glad to recommend this book to you.
The essential point [...]

Today’s guest post is from Robert Shaw, Pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Winfield Indiana.  I’ve met Robert at the Evangelism Conference for the PCUSA last year, and ran into him again at the transformation pastors conference that just ended in St. Pete’s Beach in FL.
He shares with us some of the things that he [...]

Personal Evangelism Book
Many of us know people who seem to have a simple time sharing their faith. 
When we think of the successful evangelists we know, many seem like

easy and out going extroverts,
who have no problem talking to strangers,
or causally talking about faith with everyone at the family reunion. 

No fear [...]

Do you know your Neighbor?
Something I experienced when I lived in the suburbs of Richmond VA was the lack of a sense of community in our neighborhood. 
Sure we all bought nice houses, but with the exception of one family, we didn’t know any of the neighbors. 
What a contrast to our former subdivision where we [...]

Below is an article I wrote for a men’s publication, coming out later in May. 
Mac and Susan (*) were new neighbors that moved into our cul-de-sac. A few days after the trucks left and friends stopped dropping by, my wife and I prepared some welcome cookies (fresh baked oatmeal raisin, still warm from [...]