Practical how-to advice for pastors, church planters, and ministry leaders on personal evangelism and church hospitality
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 … [Read more...]
Perhaps you’re wonderingHow to improve your first impressions ministry for first time church visitors What to say to a first time visitor. How to train church greeters.Do you want to retain more of your church visitors?That process starts with a great first impression.A first … [Read more...]
The North American Mission Board is developing a new evangelism initiative to fulfill their 2020 vision of "Every Believer Sharing, Every Person Hearing.""God's Plan for Sharing" is meant to encourage Christians to prayerfully and thoughtfully engage in the most effective approach for making … [Read more...]
Presbygrow writes: We are pleased to announce that our resource for new church development, Starting New Churches: A Discernment Process, has been revised and updated. I know the principal authors and have skimmed the resource this morning and believe that if you are involved in planting a church, … [Read more...]
Preparing a community outreach for your church this coming spring?How can you spiritually prepare yourself and the community for your outreach?You are probably thinking: 1. Planning meetings. 2. Publicity 3. Hoping for good weather. . .:)Don't forget prayer. Prayer is the … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
This was submitted by one of our readers and permission granted to be distributed by EvangelismCoach.org. The writer wishes to remain anonymous. Some slight editing for on-line reading have been made.The writer gave this as part of their Hospitality training to their welcoming ministries … [Read more...]
As I continued to read through Ron Crandall's book, he gives a list of principles for church renewal and revitalization from the ages of church history. It may seem like a no-brainer, but at least observations through church history back it up.1. Personal renewal.Renewal of a church … [Read more...]
This week and next, you'll be reading about small church transformation, particularly the role of evangelism, based on a study of small churches first done in 1995 and then updated in December of 2008. These first few posts setup some of the background and are meant to be in small blog-size … [Read more...]
I continue to be amazed at the growth in reach of this ministry.You, my readers, are faithfully recommending this site to others, emailing articles to your friends, and encouraging people to signup for events.January saw us in 3 different countries for three different conferences (one of … [Read more...]
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