Not to long ago, I spoke at a Missions Congress on Cross Cultural Missions.
The event was awesome and I shared the stage with expositors from Costa Rica and Honduras.
The organizers wanted me to share on the theme of “Reaching my city for Christ.”
Reaching my City for Christ
For two to three weeks, I meditated on [...]

What is the gospel?
An ex-Christian friend of mine turned to me and said
“Chris, what is the gospel?”
Excitement bubbled up within me.  I’m an evangelist and this conversation was near and dear to my heart.  However, I got too excited.
The end result was confusing half thoughts, and verbal commas: “bluh, bluh, um, uh, it’s ah, [...]

Small groups are a great place to find help and encouragement in sharing Christ with nonbelievers.
I propose one accountability group as an Evangelism Training Small Group.
Here is a sample 6 week group.
Week One

Read together Mt. 28:18-20 and Acts 1:8. Use a flip chart or poster paper to list as many observations as you can from [...]

I and one of my co-teachers just finished the The Evangelism Dunamis track in Mt. Vernon Washington, about 2 hours north of Seattle. 
One of the joys I get in my travels as an evangelism trainer is meeting new people all over the country. 
Pastors from various denominations and gifted lay ministers. 
At this conference, new initial groundwork [...]

In just a few weeks, I am scheduled to go to Victory Bible Camp in Palmer Alaska to help facilitate a workshop on personal evangelism, as part of the Dunamis Course series for Presbyterian Reformed Ministries International (www.prmi.org).
The Evangelism Dunamis in the Power of the Holy Spirit emphasizes learning God’s vision for evangelism, and motivations [...]

Thursday May 29, 2008, 9 PM Eastern.
Find Confidence to Share your Faith
in the Ordinary Routine of life
 
Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/601689907
See full details for the seminar:
Free Online Personal Evangelism Training Seminar
We’ll tackle questions like:

Do I have to be brave?
How can I share my faith without being obnoxious?
What are some good books to [...]

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 group [...]