Practical how-to advice for pastors, church planters, and ministry leaders on personal evangelism and church hospitality
(Note: Download the MP3 podcast of the free Webinar with Bill Tenny-Brittian. 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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
(HT: Image pslim)"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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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