Practical how-to advice for pastors, church planters, and ministry leaders on personal evangelism and church hospitality
My new favorite resource on this topic is Thom S. Rainer’s book Surprising Insights from the Unchurched. He has surveyed those who have become churched within the last two years. This was a particular niche of study, asking questions of those who made that transition in effective … [Read more...]
The number of Christian teenagers actively sharing their faith is declining. Believing teenagers were asked if they had attempted to explain their religious beliefs to someone else with different religious beliefs with a hope that they might receive Jesus Christ as Savior. In 1997, 63% of … [Read more...]
As a response to the series Coaching Congregational Evangelism, I've been coaching a few very busy pastors through a 30 day process to better personal evangelism for busy pastors.I find over and over again in my practice that coaching "removes the fog from the mirror." Fog = Evangelism … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Note: I'm in Black Mountain NC this week, doing some video taping on personal evangelism training, so this week will have some guest articles.Today's Guest Article is from Jeffrey Johnson, author of Got Style? Personality Based Evangelism.See my review of Got Style at Personality Based … [Read more...]
Since the PC USA is where I hold my ordination as pastor, these statistics are of interest to me, and I know that many of the EvangelismCoach.org subscribers are in that same tribe.Source: PC(USA) - Presbyterian News Service - PC(USA) records steepest membership loss since reunion in … [Read more...]
I found this article on Todd Rhodes Monday Morning insight blog (link below). It features the results of a survey of formerly churched adults. (Photo: WanderSick)Highlights:Only 11 percent would be willing to self-identify as a visitor on first visit. 26 percent would visit some kind of … [Read more...]
The ARIS 2008 survey was carried out during February-November 2008 and collected answers from 54,461 respondents who were questioned in English or Spanish.The American population self-identifies as predominantly Christian but Americans are slowly becoming less Christian.86% of American … [Read more...]
For youth pastors, young adult pastors, and others who work with this group, this research gives current insight based on survey data. Lifeway has published a podcast with it, found at Stetzer's article.From Ed Stetzer's research: In fact, 73 percent of unchurched twentysomethings consider … [Read more...]
The short answer: Personal Invitation from a Trusted friend.Charles Arn has surveyed thousands of people: (Source: 3 Questions for Charles Arn) In your research, have you found that there's one specific reason that visitors come to church?The friendship factor.We've asked more than … [Read more...]
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