Practical how-to advice for pastors, church planters, and ministry leaders on personal evangelism and church hospitality
Imagine the scenario:You and a non-Christian friend are sitting in a Starbucks, talking about life, drinking a cup of coffee.In a relaxed and safe manner, the talk naturally turns to your faith in Christ.She looks at you and asks with complete sincerity: “What is the gospel?”How … [Read more...]
Note: Over the next few days, I’ll be sharing some thoughts on postmodernism and evangelism. To keep the articles readable and short, they are spread out over a few days. Grab the RSS feed to get new articles automatically. When I went to seminary, great importance was placed on Systematic … [Read more...]
The North American Mission Board is developing a new evangelism initiative to fulfill their 2020 vision of "Every Believer Sharing, Every Person Hearing.""God's Plan for Sharing" is meant to encourage Christians to prayerfully and thoughtfully engage in the most effective approach for making … [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...]
The most liberating portion of our teaching on evangelism is showing the advance working of the Holy Spirit. In this presentation you can see how the Holy Spirit prepares the way for your evangelistic conversation. Holy Spirit and Evangelism View more presentations from Chris Walker. … [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...]
Michael Green reminds us about the either/or nature of the gospel, using biblical descriptions that paint a contrast We are either members of the kingdom, or outside its gates. reconciled to God, or rebels Lost or Found Invited to the wedding feast or left in outer darkness Building lives upon the … [Read more...]
Our definition of evangelism (from the PCUSA) has both:A message to share ("joyfully sharing the good news of the sovereign love of God) A destination ("calling people to . . . . . ")The good news is the gospel. This is what gospel means in its most basic form: "good news."However, … [Read more...]
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