Practical how-to advice for pastors, church planters, and ministry leaders on personal evangelism and church hospitality
A blog had a great article ( "Gospel Connections in Suburbia") that has evangelistic 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 … [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...]
I found an illustrated verison of the Bridge Illustration. Useful animation and full of Scripture. For more information on the Bridge Diagram, see Discussing the Bridge Illustration to see how I adapted this for a youth audience. … [Read more...]
During the time in Enfield for the Youth Night: Discover Your Faith - Enfield CT I had blast meeting with several teenagers and talking about faith. You are God's poem. Ephesians 2:10 shares how we are God's workmanship. The Greek word for workmanship is the root of our word poem. That says a … [Read more...]
Looking for practical evangelism tips?Here are a 10. Links will take you to further explanations and articles on these items. Evangelistic Prayer 1. Seek the Father's Heart -- (see Getting Emotionally Worked Up)2. Offering yourself for God's use in sharing your faith.3. Regular … [Read more...]
I remember a model of evangelism that felt like a sales pitch.I would attend a seminar and learn the newest script for evangelism. The idea is that I would learn a series of conversational steps that would help peopleSee their need for Jesus Make a decision to follow Christ Repeat a … [Read more...]
In doing research for this series on gospel scripts, I found another outline called FAITH. It seems pretty good and could be a simple tool to share your faith. Scripts are not automatic The purpose of a script is to provide you an outline to share your faith when the Lord provides the … [Read more...]
The "Do vs Done" Gospel Evangelism Script is one of those scripts that is very well known and has a long history."Do versus Done" is very simple gospel presentation to think through, and gets at one aspect of the gospel message.However, "Do versus Done" is so common that actually finding the … [Read more...]
James Choung has written a few books on explaining the Christian Faith. On of the issues that he tackles is updating or improving the Bridge Illustration. The whole article is here at The Big Story | Tell It Slant . “Choung’s ‘napkin theology’ and its ‘four-worlds’ diagram promise to … [Read more...]
The next series of posts will look at a few of the scripts I have used.My default setting is the Bridge Illustration.The Bridge Illustration is the one that I use the most often. When I was a youth pastor, reviewed with my teenagers at least once every three months. No one left our youth … [Read more...]
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