Beyond Belief by Patrick McElroy is subtitled Live a Consistent, Spiritually Powerful life.
From the back cover:
“a book about breaking free from a spiritually weak life to achieve the consistently powerful one that is available to every believer.
It’s a Bible Study 101 that guides reader to a greater revelation of God.”
Summary of Beyond Belief
The 66-page book [...]

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’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
See Part II of Evangelism Where You Live – A Review Part II
This final section of [...]

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 [...]

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.
What’s not working?
The authors ask:
Why Aren’t Our Efforts [...]

How often have you heard?

Greeting church visitors is every one’s responsibility.

However, you know this  doesn’t always get done.
Thus, many churches  have organized greeting teams to serve a few weeks in a row.
In my experience, some times people who are recruited as greeters may not be sure exactly what to say or how to give [...]

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 [...]

This past week, I’ve had fun with some new friends in Palmer Alaska, while teaching The Evangelism Dunamis.  
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 mission outreaches were launched as well [...]

Looking for practical evangelism tips?  Here are a few.  Links will take you to further explanations and articles on these items. 
Evangelistic Prayer
1.  Seek the Father’s Heart — (see Getting Emotionally Worked Up)
2.  Offering yourself for God’s use in sharing your faith.
3.  Regular Prayer for those who don’t know Christ.
See Also:

Ten Prayer Points For your Friends
Prayer [...]

I remember a model of evangelism that felt like a sales pitch.
I would attend a seminar and learn the newest script for evangelism.  The idea is that I would learn a series of conversational steps that would help people

See their need for Jesus
Make a decision to follow Christ
Repeat a prayer after me.
Sign here for [...]

I attended Eric Hoey’s (photo to right, link goes to Eric’s Blog) workshop on Evangelism and Church growth at the Multi-Cultural Church Conference this past weekend in San Antonio. 
Among other things, Eric reminded our group about different styles of evangelism connected with your personality.  The material came from Becoming a Contagious Christian, Bill Hybels and [...]

In my previous conversation at the corner McDonald’s where I spent two hours discussing faith, the gospel, and the need for Jesus, my conversation partner brought up
Mathew 7: 13-14 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But [...]

As mentioned in Saturday’s post I just finished reading Nick Pollard’s Evangelism Made Slightly Less Difficult: How to Interest People who Aren’t Already Interested (order your copy direct from Amazon).
The goal of his book is to help you get uninterested people interested in Jesus, to reach people “who are simply not interested in hearing [...]

I just finished reading Nick Pollard’s Evangelism Made Slightly Less Difficult: How to Interest People who Aren’t Already Interested (order your copy direct from Amazon).  Nick is a full time evangelist and speaker who lives in Great Britain.
With cover endorsements from Josh McDowell, George Verwer, and Lesslie Newbigin, I figured it would be a pretty [...]