A church I coached over the phone wanted to implement a church greeter program as a result of reading Church Greeters 101.
But after one coaching session with the pastor, became clear a new greeter program won’t solve this church’s problems.
This call helped me to see that that there are additional variables to growing your church’s [...]

Today’s guest article is written by Les Brown who writes devotionals at http://lesbrowndevotionals.com.  He develops a composite story of errors made in welcoming first time visitors to church.
It may read a little harsh, but I’ve experienced almost every one of these events in his story, just not in one service. . . .
Compare it to [...]

I’ve been a church drop out twice, once while I was an associate pastor.  Isn’t that funny?
As I reflected on those experiences through the lens of church growth strategies and evangelism, I want to set aside the data that is out there and just share my own experience.
Why do we make all the efforts to [...]

Today’s guest article is by Ed Cyzewski, author of Coffeehouse Theology: Reflecting on God in Everyday Life.
I’m doing a lot of travel and speaking here at the end of October and a few of my friends are helping me out with guest posts.
Addressing the “What works for me” Paradox
When I discuss my faith with someone [...]

I just finished reading Jeff Johnson latest book that is making the rounds among my friends:
Got Style? Personality Based Evangelism
For me, this book was one of those brilliant a-ha moments, where I suddenly saw the 3-D image buried in the Magic Eye painting.
This book brought together several loose threads that were rattling around my mind [...]

Jeff Johnson is the author of Got Style?
We’ll be talking about how personal evangelism fits into the local church.  The big problem that we see with most evangelism training is that it is divorced from connecting people to the local church.  How can we help the church support the work of evangelism?
See: The Church and [...]

We’ve all heard about evangelism and our personality as the witness — how we best conduct personal evangelism out of a particular style.
But what about our hearer?
The person we are witnessing to?
Can we help shape our gospel presentation to their need, to the language of their heart, to their spiritual thirst?
Listen to how Dr. Brad [...]

Tonight I was asked by a guy in our church
to be a “Greeter” which means
I’d shake people’s hands as they come in.
(Twitter user)
Being a greeter is much more than shaking hands as people walk in the door of your church during worship services.
So many churches simply recruit warm bodies to fill this role without much [...]

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 2: The Impact of Church Greeters in my new ebook Church Greeters 101.
It launches this week for $12.99 and is only available for download at
www.ChurchGreeterTraining.com
Price good through Sunday night, 9pm October 11, 2009.
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[begin excerpt] I received this email earlier this week, though I changed the details to remove [...]

I’m often asked
How does a church build a bridge to the local community?
Here is a great example of a church serving it’s community and using the web 2.0 technology to do so.
12 Stone Church Developed a website called
myCorkBoard.org
I heard about it in a podcast this past fall where the preacher highlighted it as a place [...]

Note: What follows is a sample from the book, “Church Greeters 101″ being released October 8, 2009.  It is currently priced at $14.99
Here is what one reviewer has already said:
I’ve been looking for a resource to help guide me as I work to rebuild our greeter ministry.
Church Greeters 101 hits the spot!
What I really found [...]

Personal evangelism can be as normal as breathing.
Don’t believe me?
I had an appointment with a friend, but he canceled it.
He changed his mind, forgot to tell me, and showed up anyway.
While drinking coffee with him, he began talking about his spiritual life.
He started it.  I listened.
He described the emptiness he felt inside.
He described how he [...]

You want me to do what?
Many people find personal evangelism scary.
Some would rather clean a pig sty instead of talking about Jesus to their friends.
Yet Jesus commands us to go and share.
But fear stands in the way.
I’ve developed a sampler of my day long Fear Free Evangelism Seminar to help you face your fears [...]

Join Chris Walker of EvangelismCoach.org talking with Bill and Gail Royster, The Welcome & Hospitality People, church hospitality consultants for more than 25 years as we talk about “the little things” that help to make a great first impression.
We’ll look at easy to hard fixes that you can make this weekend when it comes specifically [...]

Can a former taxi driver become a recognized world expert in planting house churches?  Tyndale sent me the lastest volume on house churches for review: The House Church Book, by Wolfgang Simson.  George Barna’s name is attached to it, just like his name was attached to Tony and Felicity Dales The Rabbit and the Elephant: [...]

Personal Evangelism
The Pugnacious Irishman looks at the objection: “I’ll start sharing my faith as soon as I learn how to defend it and answer questions.” Read: Are you ready enough? Study but no action is still no action.
People get a passion for evangelism by doing it.  We study, study, study, thinking we’ll eventually get [...]

I found an interesting post at Farming the Field blog that looks at the types of evangelistic encounters that were had in the New Testament.
The author is a teacher of Ray Comfort’s material from the way of the Master. He cites a book that looks at contact evangelism, a popular style in that method.
Contact evangelism [...]

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At $19.95 (under .70 a day) I bought this instant download myself and found lots of useful information and action [...]