I’ve been reading Evangelism Where You Live: Engaging Your Community and I think it is a must read book for pastors of churches seeking to engage its community.
See Part I of Evangelism Where You Live – A Review Part I
The authors do make progress in developing their thesis in the remainder part of the book.
Chapter [...]

I’ve been reading Evangelism Where You Live: Engaging Your Community and I think it is a must read book for pastors of churches seeking to engage its community.
Over the next few days leading up to the Community Based Servant Evangelism Webinar, I’ll be pulling out a few themes.
A philosophy of Ministry
The foundational drive of this [...]

The short answer: Personal Invitation from a Trusted friend.
Charles Arn has surveyed thousands of people: (Source: 3 Questions for Charles Arn)
In your research, have you found that there’s one specific reason that visitors come to church?
The friendship factor.
We’ve asked more than 50,000 people over the last 10 years why they came to church, and between [...]

Picking up from the Last post (Spheres of Influence), here is one example of taking a look at where do you live as a sphere of influence:
This example comes from Bill Tenny-Brittian, Hitchhiker’s Guide To Evangelism
Several years ago we moved into a planned subdivision that hosts over 5,000 homes.
I was a church planter launching a [...]

Our  Relational Evangelism series:

Part 1:  Do you have any non-Christian Friendships?

Part 2: Drifting Away from the World that eventually isolates us from the world and surrounds us with only Christian friends.

Are we called to isolate ourselves?
One reaction to the culture is to isolate ourselves:

Christian social networks,
Christian business,
see only Christian movies,
listen to Christian radio, and
attend the [...]

In They like Jesus, but not the Church, even Dan Kimball confesses that he made the same discovery at one point– no non-Christian relationships.
As I have given relational evangelism training seminars around the US and Latin America, the most common confession I hear from those who have walked with Christ for many years
I don’t have [...]

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“I have no non-Christian relationships” confessed one of my evangelism coaching clients (shared with permission).
“I was taking an inventory of my personal relationships and discovered that I had surrounded myself entirely with Christians.”
In the Christian Cocoon
This is a common description of many Christians who have been walking with the Lord for many years.
I [...]

Miss part I?
You can read 10 Practices to Welcome Church Visitors Part 1 by following that link.  Here are Common Practices 6-10.
6. “Secret Greeters”
Some churches will go beyond simply training greeters for points of entry at the church, such as the front door.  A good idea is to encourage others to be “secret greeters.”  [...]

Evangelism, at least in my circles of influence, seems to be a dreaded word. At its mention, some people feel queasy, the hairs stand on the back of their neck, people want to secretly leave the room.
On the opening night of our Listening Evangelism Conferences, one participant in Michigan simply said “Evangelism scares us.”
Why I [...]