Churches without a budget for evangelism training can still grow the evangelistic passion within a congregation with these four free resources that every church already has.
You don’t have to invite me to come and give a conference, or even look for evangelistic tools to buy.
Your church already has these four free evangelism tools.
Use them.
1. Prayer
I maintain a list of friends that I’m praying for.
After all, who am I praying to know the Lord?
Who can I bring to the feet of Jesus?
See also:
- Take the Risk, Offer to Pray.
- Ten Prayer Points For your Friends
- Prayer Strategy for Personal Evangelism (MP3 Download)
Praying makes me more sensitive to the opportunities around me, and more sensitive to the spiritual thirst I might hear in a conversation. Praying also makes me trust and learn the prompting of the Holy Spirit, to recognize that nudge that precedes a spiritual conversation.
2. Your Personal Testimony
Your story of your journey to faith is one of the most crucial ways that people see how Jesus is relevant to life.
You might be able to point to a day and time (like walking forward to an altar call, or kneeling alone in your bedroom), or might be able to say “It happened, but I’m not sure when.”
No matter how it happened, you need to know the story of your conversion and know it well so that you can share relevant portions at a moment’s notice.
Your experience of personal evangelism will be much richer if you can master telling your own story.
Download this personal testimony tool to help.
Read 8 steps to using your personal testimony.
3. Current Stories of God’s activity in your life.
Our testimony is of all of God’s activity in our life. When I teach on evangelism, I use the following question:
What is God doing in your life today (in this season of life, not a 24 hour time period) that makes the gospel good news?
When we are sharing our faith, God may prompt us to share
- how He pursued us prior to our declaring our loyalty to Him, or
- how He has met us in current events, or
- how He walked with us through prior suffering.
How have you seen God’s kindness at work in your life?
You might see evidence of God’s work in:
- Guidance
- Healing
- Love
- Forgiveness
- Speaking to you
- Growing a particular fruit of the Spirit
- A season of testing
- To be a blessing in the life of another
God is at work in your life.
When you have the eyes to see it, and take the time to meditate on His work, you will always have a fresh story to share of God’s work.
We’ve got more than one story.
God remains at work in our life, He is relevant to life today, not just at the point of our conversion or ownership of our faith.
View more: https://www.evangelismcoach.org/video-personal-evangelism-tip-current-stories/
4. A version of the gospel in a nutshell.
Everyone needs to master a version of the gospel. There are plenty available online for free.
The purpose of a gospel summary is to provide you an outline to share your faith when the Lord provides the opportunity. You have the flexibility to adjust it to your conversational context.
As the conversation moves along, you can add details and back off on other points. These gospel scripts are not meant to be followed in a legalistic format. There is no cause and effect as in “get the script right and they will believe, get the script wrong and you messed up their eternity.”
The point of a script is to be very familiar with ONE so that you can confidently explain your faith when God provides the opportunity. It’s got a few choice scriptures, and you can likely pick some of your other favorites that make the same point.
Read How to Practice a Gospel Presentation
Are just a few.
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Ed Arcton says
November 12, 2013 at 10:55 amI agreed with these four Tools you listed, beside i believe that Evangelism should and must be the life blood of every Believer and the local Church, just as Missions is the heart beat of God. If the members of the local Church should give themselves to pray for the lost souls around them, revival will shoot out like a water in the desert place.
Our living testimony will speak louder than our lips. The New testament Church proclaim Christ Jesus in two ways 1) By their mouth as we found in the Acts of Apostles everywhere they preached Christ.
2) By their Life (testimony) they also preached Christ to everyone and in Antioch they were known and called Christians.
3) Sharing the wonders of God in our daily walk and fellowship with Him is a powerful tool for effective witness.
4) We must have the Scriptures in our Hearts, so that anytime anywhere we may share the Good-news to all. Preach the Gospel in it simplicity and yet powerful to save the lost from the power of sin and Satan, offering them Christ Jesus as savoir and Lord of their life at all time.
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silas okello says
September 15, 2017 at 7:41 amgreat work
it helps so much
Samuel Antwi says
January 21, 2018 at 7:24 amI love evangelism and more light on it to help how I can do more.