Practical how-to advice for pastors, church planters, and ministry leaders on personal evangelism and church hospitality
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...]
I continue to be amazed at the growth in reach of this ministry.You, my readers, are faithfully recommending this site to others, emailing articles to your friends, and encouraging people to signup for events.January saw us in 3 different countries for three different conferences (one of … [Read more...]
The USA Today recently wrote a great article: Where is Christ in Christmas? It has the typical complaints over "Merry Christmas" vs. "Happy Holidays."Focus on the Family put out a video about throwing away catalogs that don't wish you a Merry Christmas. Merry Tossmas My own experience Even … [Read more...]
Check out this article from the The Presbyterian Outlook entitled An evangelistic future? Editor Jack Haberer writes: After three days of making friends, comparing notes, hearing testimonies, and brainstorming their dreams, might 75 Presbyterians hope to create an evangelistic future for the … [Read more...]
Adrian Warnock asks: Should You be a Church Plant Leader? In it he gives video and a list of 20 questions that every church planter should ask. I was a church planter one, and I work with church planters now. This is a great inventory to add to the list. Joshua Cody at Church … [Read more...]
I finished readingFusion: Turning First-Time Guests into Fully-Engaged Members of Your Church.This book is sure to be on the top of the list for Visitor Assimilation texts. Comparing a Ferrari to a Pinto Note: I read Beyond the First Visit: The Complete Guide to Connecting Guests to Your … [Read more...]
Evangelism Training Podcast: Overflow Podcast Show A 5 minute podcast on how you can overflow into your non-Christian friends lives. Overflow is the best ideas from the best books on evangelism. Subscribe through iTunes. From Godsquad.com Improve Search Ranking for your Church's Website I … [Read more...]
Stop Being a Friendly Church challenges the church with an interesting twist on hospitality (thanks to Tony Whitaker for highlighting this in the April Web Evangelism Bulletin). Essentialy, quit trying to be a "friendly church" and be a church "where you can make friends." There is a big … [Read more...]
From Timmy Brister's Blog: Evangelism, Calvinism, and the SBC « Provocations & Pantings According the 2006 Annual Church Profile (ACP), there are 44,223 churches in the Southern Baptist Convention. 10,449 churches baptized NO ONE 3,312 churches baptized ONE PERSON … [Read more...]
I've soaked up reading Unbinding the Gospel: Real Life Evangelism (Real Life Evangelism Series) by Martha Reese. I met her in Nashville and spent some time interacting with her on the research. The full research can be seen here at GraceNet.infoShe did a survey study of over 1000 mainline churches … [Read more...]
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