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 Christ known.
GPS lays out four biblical mileposts to lead your church outward [...]

This weekend, one of my friends shared with  me a first hand story about an evangelistic encounter he had.  
I found myself encouraged as I listened to it.  Here is a one who gets the idea of cooperating with the work of the Holy Spirit. 
I’ve retold the story here for your thoughts and for your [...]

Most of my evangelism training occurs in mainline churches, where many people equate evangelism with Hospitality or Service Projects.  Neither one is evangelism per se (For example see, Is Neighborhood Outreach Evangelism?)
In that same area, there is a marked hesitancy to discuss your faith.  That could be for a variety of reasons, many of which have been [...]

At FirstRP.org Report on First RP Conference on Biblical Evangelism, three MP3s are available from a conference they held on evangelism in Grand Rapids Michigan.
The speaker was Dr. David Murray (lots of sermons at SermonAudio.com), an ordained minister in the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) and a professor of Old Testament and Practical Theology [...]

One church, Solana Beach Presbyterian in Solana Beach California, has and effective small group ministry.  One thing they are doing a little different this year is using the small groups to help people grow comfortable in doing evangelism — a place to practice telling their stories –
“stories that testify to why they have put their [...]

In some of our weekend Evangelism Training Seminars, we often can build in a practical exercise in personal evangelism, a “lab time,” where people can leave the retreat setting and venture out to do evangelism in the style that we teach.  It is modeled after Phillip and the Ethiopian Eunuch. 
The basic premise is that we ask God [...]

A divine appointment?
I was caught off guard.
I was in class, describing my ideal job.
I would be a full time evangelist, working with churches to implement evangelism programs, conduct live  Evangelism Training Seminars and Workshops  in a local church to keep evangelism fires hot, and conduct outreaches with the local church into a neighborhood.
A student asked me: “What [...]

I like to use questions in my conversations with people to help them think about matters of faith.
Questions help draw people into conversations, and likewise can help further a conversation along rather than me making declarations all the time.
I was looking at an article by Paul Hazelden about The Modified Engel Scale (Complete). The Engel [...]

In the comments on the post entitled “From the Bookshelf: Unbinding the gospel,” commenter and blogging friend Jimmy Kinnard asked “Why aren’t people who love the Lord talking about it?”
He asks a great question.
We easily talk about the things and people we love, but when it comes to our love for God, we are as [...]