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Drew Goodmanson has posted a great list of shared values for missional church communities.  He gives 10, but one that catches my attention is this one:
8. prayer as a missionary activityRecognizing that God is the primary agent and orchestrator of mission, we view prayer as a missionary activity. We will offer prayer to unbelievers, witnessing [...]

Gas on the Fire:

The Fuel for Evangelism

Tips to keeping your
Evangelistic Temperature High

Date:
August 7, 2008 9pm EST

Here are some more Evangelism Quotes that I have compiled.  Check out our other article on Evangelism Quotes as well.

There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Evangelism without listening is like playing golf blindfolded. (Larry Chrouch)
We have to find the back door to peoples’ hearts [...]

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I will be presenting at the PC USA Transformation Pastor Training event in St. Pete’s Beach Florida at the end of September 2008.
The conference is open to pastors from other Christian denominations, you don’t have to be PC USA to participate.
If you are in the Tampa area, I’d love to [...]

Our family visited another church for the first time.  We showed up unannounced and uninvited.  We had seen the sign on the street announcing service times and chose to attend.
The experience was very different than the first time visitor story we shared in a prior posting.
This church met in the same building as the prior [...]

This weekend, our family attended a church down the street.  I share the story of our visit as a first time visitor. 
Our family was not part of this denomination, and not a part of this local community.  This was our first time ever in this building, and first time ever in that particular denomination.
We [...]

As part of our 5 week road trip, we are collecting stories of evangelistic outreach ideas, and learning what some churches are doing successfully or not.
Meeting a Community Need
One community church had heard that a local city council banned people from walking their dogs in the local park. 
If you owned a dog and [...]

One of the features here is “Ask EvangelismCoach.org“, a place where you can submit a question that’s on your mind about evangelism.   I collect them for ideas for future articles, and is a great conversation starter.
A recent one that came in was:
I’m so excited to have found your website – you were recommended by the [...]

Through July 22, we are on a 5 week road trip visiting various churches, evaluating their evangelism programs, and gathering information from lots of different churches and denominations about their local evangelism programs.
We have been connecting with pastors and churches so far in 4 different states (1 more to go). 
Simply noticing people:
At our [...]

Coming up in a few weeks, I’ll be teaching at a missions base in the Far west of Panama. 
I’ll be training missionaries in their concentrated lecture phase before they begin a 6 week outreach working in partnership with local churches among some of the unreached groups in Panama.
This has led me to reflect on [...]

We have completed the first full week of our road trip.  In the Atlanta Georgia area, I had plans to meet with several readers of this blog, but I got very sick and had to cancel most appointments.  Even now, strength is beginning to return.
20 Twenty Vision Ministries
I was however able to reconnect with a [...]

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During our summer road trip, we have been offered free use of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Richmond to provide a live [...]

Some time ago, I was asked in an email what I think are key training ideas in personal evangelism, or key steps to keeping the evangelistic temperature high in a congregation.  These below focus on personal evangelism, not church growth.
Evangelism values for pastors:

Share personal examples of conversations that you’ve had with non-church goers.
Share personal [...]

Evangelism Training in the local church helps believers to better share their faith

We crossed a small mile stone today in page views.  30,000 was from an IP address in Pennsylvania about 11:00am EST this morning.
A word of Thanks
I want to thank those readers who have been using the site to help increase your evangelism passion and further your study. 
This week, I received the following comment [...]

Gary Rohyrmayer writes in Developing a Sowing Mentality-Part 2:
4. Those with a “sowing mentality” are not particular about methods, “…whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well…”
In my experience too many church leaders get stuck or inebriated with a particular style of evangelism. Yet leaders with a sowing mentality understand it is [...]

I keep adding to the list.
If you have found some tips helpful for pastors to keep their personal evangelism passion high, please send them to me via email, contact us form, or simply give me a call at 804-335-1445.
See these prior posts:

5 Evangelism Tips for Pastors
4 More Evangelism Tips for Pastors

1.  Obey the promptings of [...]