Practical how-to advice for pastors, church planters, and ministry leaders on personal evangelism and church hospitality
I'm brave enough to try and create a prayer guide for personal evangelism over the next 30 days.This will give you insight into how I am praying this month for the work of evangelism in my life. Am I too busy to see? Day 1: Matthew 9:35-36Jesus and his disciples were busy doing ministry, … [Read more...]
When Jesus saw the crowds, his heart broke. Matthew 9:36 reads When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. He had compassion on them.To put it another way, he felt compassion for them.I can imagine the heart of … [Read more...]
Jesus saw the crowds.Jesus felt compassion for the crowds.Matthew explains why. Chapter 9 verse 36: When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Sometimes I wonder how I see people who are without Christ. I … [Read more...]
Jesus saw the crowds.He felt compassion for them.Because they were as sheep without a shepherd.Then Matthew adds: "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest," (Matt. 9:37-38). See the … [Read more...]
Prayer sensitizes us to subtle changes in the landscape of our circumstances. – Andy Stanley, Visioneering. Seeing the harvest fieldA few nights ago, I took a flight home, back to the city where I live. The flight path of our final descent runs us parallel to the city. I got to sit in … [Read more...]
Shawn Anderson's research into the conversion process reveals some interesting statistics about evangelism through personal relationships. (Read: Living Dangerously: Seven Keys to Intentional Discipleship)Looking at the time from when Jesus is first mentioned in relationship to the point of a … [Read more...]
I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 1 Cor 3:6-7 (NIV)Paul gives us a great analogy to talk about the conversion process. It picks up on some of the parables that Jesus used … [Read more...]
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...]
Jesus give us a parable, found in Matthew 13, about the kingdom of God. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls.When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it. (Matthew 13:45-46)Looking for the fine pearl The … [Read more...]
Jesus tells us another parable about the kingdom of heaven in Matthew 13. "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field.When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field." Matthew 13:44In contrast to the parable of the fine … [Read more...]
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