My top 10 Books on Personal Evangelism
When I want inspiration on personal evangelism, I often revisit one of these books.
Each of these books approaches personal evangelism from a different angle and focus on different skills.
Church Planting Book Review: Church in the Making by Ben Arment
Church planting is not easy work. Ben Arment shares some lessons he has learned out of his church planting experiences in his book, Church in the Making: What Makes or Breaks a New Church Before it Starts In the introduction, Arment writes for church planters who struggle. How did church planting become such a spiritual …
Book Review: Five Star Church
Could the same principles that create a five star hotel be applied to the church and its hospitality? That is the basic structure of the fictional conversation between a pastor and staff and the general manager of a five star hotel, as mapped out in the book The Five Star Church: Serving God and His …
Book Review: That’s a Great Question
My unsaved friend had a few questions for me about the New Testament. He had been reading articles on the Internet about objections to the credibility of the New Testament Conspiracy theories of the church suppressing information Edits to the text that introduce conformity to the established doctrine. The search for the historical Jesus. Secret …
Book Review: Becoming a Contagious Christian
Becoming a Contagious Christian helped me change my approach to personal evangelism and now I teach these same principles in my materials throughout the US and Latin America. They present a practical form of personal evangelism that can help the ordinary person in the pew overcome their shyness or fears in talking about their faith …
Book Review: Offer Them Life
Having read a steady diet of popular church growth books, Dan Dunn’s Offer Them Life: A Life-Based Evangelistic Vision is different academic challenge. It is not a book to consume in one sitting, but a great book for those who want to think deeply on the biblical theme of Life. I love Dan’s passion for …
Book Review: The 7 Principles of an Evangelistic Life
I am a big advocate of evangelism as a lifestyle. When I read the book the Acts, I see how evangelism played out in the life of the apostles and early believers. They spent time with people. They shared their faith, and the “Lord added daily” to their numbers. How can a believer experience a …
Hospitality Ministry Book Review: See You Next Week
During a recent church visitor assimilation webinar (available now for purchase), we discussed some excellent resources on the assimilation process. One participant recommended a short book on hospitality ministry that was helpful to them. See You Next Week is a short text crammed full of ideas that could help your church get started in improving …
My Favorite Books on Church Visitor Assimilation
Helping your church visitor become a regular attender is not rocket science. Church visitor assimilation is ultimately a matter of personal relationships and connections. But there are plenty of good strategies that churches have tried to help those connecting relationships form naturally. If you want to do some good reading on the subject, here are …
10 Books to Guide Your Church To Bless the Community
Your church should be a blessing to its community. You know that. In my current church, we are still looking for ways to bless our community. Our outreach will look different than yours. Our resources are different than yours. Our life patterns (working hours, commuting patterns, gated communities, social classes) are different than yours. But …
Book Review: A Plan to Revitalize a Church’s Passion for Evangelism
One frustrating problem for small church pastors is leading a church that has no desire to share their faith. How does that pastor begin to change that and overcome the natural resistance to personal evangelism? If a pastor had no training in personal evangelism (which is likely if the church is a mainline denomination), then …
Give This Book to Your Spiritually Thirsty Friend
One spiritual conversation is just not enough. The Lord will use many conversations to help bring your friend to Christ. But sometimes, you’ll want something that you can give your spiritually thirsty friend something that they can read and ponder over. Books are good for this. Invite your friend to read one with you and …
Book Review: Living Dangerously, Shawn Anderson
The Great Commission calls each of us to “Go and make disciples.” Your lifestyle plays a part in that process. Eventually, you’ll need to talk about your faith in Christ and share the gospel, but your lifestyle and your character will play a role in your witness. What areas of your character significantly impact another …
Book Review: God Behaving Badly
Ever been stumped by: The God of the Old Testament is of wrath, and the God of the New Testament is Love. How could God kill two ministers protecting the ark of the covenant. If God doesn’t change, how does he “relent”? I was on a bus coming down a Nicaragua mountain after a camp …
How do you talk to a . . . .
Imagine you are at a dinner party one night. Someone shifts the conversation and drops a bomb like this one: Who are we to say Christianity is any better than any other religion? I think the essence of Jesus’ teaching is love, the same as all religions. It’s not our job to tell other people …
NIV Application Commentary Sale
Zondervan has placed the NIV Application Commentary Series on sale for only $4.99 each through May 20, 2013. I have this entire collection in hardback, and rejoice that they’ve thrown this to the kindle on a deep discount. The first column is for the US Market. The second is for Canadians. This is a flash …
10 Books on Relational Evangelism
Of the various different evangelism styles, I tend to lean towards a conversational style that can be effective in both contact evangelism as well as incarnational evangelism. If you want to read some books that focus on relational evangelism, here my favorite list of 10 books on Relational Evangelism.
Book Review: Making Friends for Christ
I’ve often listened to personal testimony stories that have the following elements: A friend of mine had been praying for me. I had lots of conversations with my friend about their personal faith. I was intrigued by my friends desire to serve the poor with their church I was invited to church. I heard about …
Growing an Engaged Church
Helping church members invite their friends is one of the side effects of an engaged church, as Albert Winesman wrote Growing an Engaged Church. The basic question of his book is addressed on the jacket: What would a church look like if members of its congregation were 13 times more likely to have invited someone to …
Book Review: Done – What most religions don’t tell you about the Bible
Cary Schmidt has written a useful introduction to the gospel: Done.: What most religions don’t tell you about the Bible. Its chapters cover the basic gospel script of Do Vs. Done as the framework for a simple explanation of the gospel that allows someone who is considering Christianity to examine the biblical evidence and reasoning …
Book Review: And The Gathered and Scattered Church
Is your church looking to make first steps to re-engage its community? Or are you caught up in the missional vs. attractional discussion? Google “missional vs. attractional” and you’ll find a slew of blog posts, articles, and books referencing the divide between two ways of doing church. Over the last few years, I’ve talked with …
Book Review:Eats with Sinners
I’ve been in the Church for so long that deep friendships with people apart from Christ have been neglected. I’ve filled my day with work, managing the lives of my children, administrative and planning for the local church, and running an international ministry. Recently, I’ve been having a season of reading and re-reading a bunch …
33 Influential Evangelism Books for 2012
Outreach Magazine compiled a list of 33 influential books in the March 2012 edition. “Whether you are aspiring to evangelize more effectively, exploring the nuances of ‘missional’ in your life and your church, looking for a great small group curriculum, or just wanting to expand your ministry knowledge in general, we want to help you …
Book Review: Gospel Wakefulness
Gospel Wakefulness, by Jared Wilson, is one of the most transforming books I have read this year. I read a lot of books, many of which overlap each other by re-organizing the same material in a different manner, or looking at a particular niche from a different angle, or telling stories to demonstrate applications of …