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What is Evangelism? A Definition

I bet that if you had 100 people in a room, you would have one hundred definitions of evangelism.

Some evangelism definitions are so wide that they cover anything and everything related to growing a church.

Some evangelism definitions are so narrowly focused to a scripted outline to a stranger that needs to be humbled.

Some definitions of evangelism are somewhere in between.

Whenever I do workshops, I always get different answers to the question “What is evangelism?”

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Church Hospitality Survey Assessment or Audit

The gospel should be offensive, not your church members or a lackadaisical hospitality ministry.

Your hospitality ministry in the church is one of the most important factors in the experience of first time visitors that will influence their personal decision to come back to your church.

After all, your church won’t grow if your visitors don’t return and make friends.

But you may have unintentional barriers that might hinder that person’s decision to return.

Fix things with a Church Hospitality Audit

Church Hospitality Leaders find it helpful to have a questionnaire to help them spot and fix items that can quickly remove those unecessary rough edges.

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Your Turn: How to Identify Church Visitors in a Large Church

Recently, a reader submitted a question via Ask Evangelismcoach about how to identify church visitors in a large church:

What are some ideas for identifying visitors?

We are a 2500 member church and many of us don’t know the difference between a visitor and someone who is a member who we just have never met?

I have heard of using name tags, colored coffee cups(ugh!), asking visitors to stand during worship…

I spend time talking with people I do not know/recognize but they end up being members, not visitors. Any suggestions?

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44 Spiritual Conversation Starter Questions

Tactful spiritual conversation starter questions can open the doors to significant life changing evangelistic conversations.

Tactful means

With these evangelistic questions, use them appropriately.

It’ll take prayer and discernment to recognize those moments when these are great questions to use in personal evangelism.

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6 Ways to Follow Up on First Time Church Visitors

If your church visitors do not return and make friends with people in your congregation, your church

  • will not grow
  • will not help new believers who responded to an altar call invitation to grow as a disciple
  • will not help new movers into your community get involved in your church with their treasures and talents
  • will not help evangelism contacts via your outreaches continue to seek for Christ.

While it is a good practice to train your church members to increase the number of invitations to church, it is also a good practice to find ways to be intentional your  follow up on your first time church visitor.

Here are six ways to be intentional in helping your church visitor to connect.

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