Your 50% in the work of Evangelism

The balance of evangelism scale

Steven Furtick blogs about not putting unnecessary burdens on ourselves while sharing the gospel.He calls it “Your 50%”.Essentially, Furtick calls us to remember thatWe are called to bear witness to our faith. God is responsible for calling people to respond in faith.The … [Read more...]

30 Days of Prayer Day 8: Spiritual Blindness

Praying for spiritual Blindness

Before we came to know Christ, we were sinners.Before we started following Jesus, we were spiritually dead, and spiritually blind.If we have been a Christian for a long time, perhaps we have forgotten how our spiritual eyes couldn't see in the dark, how impossible it was to seethe value … [Read more...]

Book Review: Reimagining Evangelism

I found a book review on a book called Reimagining Evangelism: Inviting Friends on a Spiritual Journey.I knew that I need to put this on the reading list for me and quickly acquired it.  If I was an evangelism professor at a school, this book would be required reading. No more sales … [Read more...]

Friday Finds September 18

Every now and then I put up a set of links from stuff I've been reading that I have found interesting and noteworthy.  There are often no themes, which reflects the randomness of my reading:Links from people I follow on Twitter. Links from my Google feed reader Shared Facebook … [Read more...]

Links in the Chain of Conversion

Links in the chain of conversion

Last night, I spent some time preparing for a talk I'm giving this weekend.One of the jewels of scripture that spoke to me last night comes from 2 Kings 5. Now bands from Aram had gone out and had taken captive a young girl from Israel, and she served Naaman's wife.  She said to her mistress, … [Read more...]

Experiencing a Christian Conversion

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Last night, I watched a deeply powerful film. Note: Over the last few days and into next week, 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 … [Read more...]

Baptism is the fruit of Following the Holy Spirit

I got the following story via email in response to the most recent Evangelism Coach Newsletter.With the author's permission, I share it here as a guest article while I'm away on Evangelism Training Ministry in Nicaragua.Of course names are changed for privacy. I appreciate the challenge I … [Read more...]

Seminar Testimony

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Our primary model in our seminars for doing personal evangelism is Phillip and the Ethiopian Eunuch. The basic premise: When God "underlined" the eunuch for Phillip, (with "Go stand next to THAT chariot"), Phillip obeyed and found a spiritually thirsty person.  Phillip … [Read more...]

God can use broken Spanish. . . .

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I completed the first of two part evangelism series for a church.  It was my second workshop in Spanish, and I want to give thanks to God for a growing capacity to teach in Spanish.  While the grammar was not 100% perfect, I was told that I was understandable, and the church gave me great … [Read more...]

Divine Appointment: God’s presence is with us

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In my previous conversation at the corner McDonald's where I spent two hours discussing faith, the gospel, and the need for Jesus, my conversation partner brought up Mathew 7:13-14 "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter … [Read more...]