Practical how-to advice for pastors, church planters, and ministry leaders on personal evangelism and church hospitality
I've just wrapped up an Evangelism Conference at Calvary Presbyterian Church, Enfield CT, on Listening Evangelism, Evangelism in the Power of the Holy Spirit.What a great group of people!Several churches, different denominations, gathering to learn about our approach to … [Read more...]
In our personal evangelism seminars, I have found that most participants have heard of a particular gospel script and think they know how to use it.The practiceSince I use the Bridge Illustration as my default setting, I use it in training others with a little practice exercise.I use a … [Read more...]
James Choung has written a few books on explaining the Christian Faith. On of the issues that he tackles is updating or improving the Bridge Illustration. The whole article is here at The Big Story | Tell It Slant . “Choung’s ‘napkin theology’ and its ‘four-worlds’ diagram promise to … [Read more...]
The "Do vs Done" Gospel Evangelism Script is one of those scripts that is very well known and has a long history."Do versus Done" is very simple gospel presentation to think through, and gets at one aspect of the gospel message.However, "Do versus Done" is so common that actually finding the … [Read more...]
This evening I read a post about evangelism scripts at this blog.The main gist of the entry is of an encounter between an evangelist with a script and the author being the one evangelized.The script came from Evangelism Explosion, a tool that has been highly useful in the past and one that … [Read more...]
In doing research for this series on gospel scripts, I found another outline called FAITH. It seems pretty good and could be a simple tool to share your faith. Scripts are not automatic The purpose of a script is to provide you an outline to share your faith when the Lord provides the … [Read more...]
The next series of posts will look at a few of the scripts I have used.My default setting is the Bridge Illustration.The Bridge Illustration is the one that I use the most often. When I was a youth pastor, reviewed with my teenagers at least once every three months. No one left our youth … [Read more...]
Many of you know that prayer preceeds personal evangelism. Yet I encounter more and more people that still feel somewhat clumsy in actually praying. I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. ~Henry Ward … [Read more...]
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