7 Ways to Encourage Congregational Evangelism
Every pastor I know wants to grow their church by leading people to Christ.
If that’s you, you’re in good company.
If you’re succeeding at it, you are in rare company.
Develop Your Church’s Evangelism Strategy
Healthy churches grow in worship, fellowship, discipleship, and mission engagement in the community. They also grow through evangelism. What is your church's evangelism strategy
Ideas for Evangelism Strategies
Your church can be used by God to lead people into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Here are ideas for Evangelism Strategies to help you do that.
Evangelism Substitute #4: Community Service
Don't let community service outreach projects become a substitute of personal evangelism
Summer Olympics 2016: 3 Outreach Ideas
A few quick ideas for church based outreaches during the summer olympics.
3 Keys to Make an Evangelistic Sunday School Culture
Sunday school has a long history of being an evangelistic tool of the church. I’ve visited growing churches that utilize their Sunday School to not only grow their members, but create a space where newcomers can connect and discover faith. Recently, a small church pastor asked me about how to make their Sunday School evangelistic. …
Video Discussion Starter:Imperfect
God looks at the inside not the outside. If you were to use this video as a conversation starter, what additional questions might you use? Check out this video discussion starter and then I’ll share some possible ways to use this video:
7 Servant Evangelism Ideas for Black Friday Shopping Crowds
In the United States, the Friday after Thanksgiving is a major shopping day. The media will show reports of Black Friday shopping crowds outside of major department stores and malls. People who are waiting to be nearly the first in line to get the savings on Christmas presents for family and friends. When the doors …
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 …
What is the Next Step after Your Halloween Outreach
In my first church, we chose October 31 as a safe alternative to Halloween. We planned all sorts of children’s games, candy giveaway, costume contest, and all around fun. We mobilized lots of volunteers to run the games and our small church had a tremendous party every year. Our Harvest Party (we called it) celebrated …
Gospel centered life change is the church’s work
From a pastor friend of mine: “Two Amazing stories from church today…card from one Campus said, “the guy I used to buy drugs from came to church and got saved today.” Report from another campus “I was on my way to buy heroin to kill myself tonight b/c I had no hope…saw the church…came in…gave …
Are you reaching out to this demographic?
These statistics are a few years old, but nonetheless, what is your church doing to reach this demographic? I admit, I am a little biased. I do ministry full time among developing leaders in Central America. God has given me a love for this culture that is just as passionate as my own North American …
Should we invite unsaved friends to church?
I posted this question to the EvangelismCoach.org Facebook page. “Should we invite unsaved friends to church?” Give a Yes or No, and then give a reason. The answers were pretty divided between Yes and No, with some strong opinions: Yes, the church is on an evangelistic mission. No, the church is for believers only to …
Get More Church Invitations: A Great Welcome
Recently, I was asked via Ask EvangelismCoach about ways to increase the number of invitations to church that members give to their network of friends. Review these posts to get on board with some of the answers More church invitations: Friends and Family Get More Church Invitations: Prayer I want you to come to my …
Video: How Your Church Can Grow in Evangelism
As a church leader, what if you don’t excel in personal evangelism? Can your congregation still enjoy conversion growth? Watch these three pastors in this 10-minute video about how churches can grow in evangelism. Darrin Patrick, Mark Dever and Matt Chandler spend some time talking about their different evangelism approaches. You might like these books …
Christmas Outreach through Public Schools
I heard about this Christmas 2012 Church outreach from 12 Stone Church. Even small churches can adopt a school and do something similar. I don’t go to 12Stone Church, but found myself wanting to volunteer, or even dream about doing something like this with my church next year. It’s a great community engagement step that …
Great Christmas Outreach Ideas
I’m looking for Great Christmas Outreach Ideas that you have done, particularly those that involve the church in serving or blessing the community. I’m particularly looking to generate ideas for the smaller church, under 150 in worship. I’m not looking for how to bless your own church members. Please leave a comment below, and make …
Tim Keller on How churches reach cities – Lausanne Capetown 2010
Here’s a 17+ minute video of Tim Keller talking at Lausanne about how you reach cities by Planting & renewing churches that are contextual to the city, Establishing citywide gospel movements By contextual churches, he speaks of planting a church that fits in your context. As part of that talk he gave these marks to …
Does your Greeter Ministry Create Barriers
A big hospitality barrier for many churches is a malfunctioning greeter ministry. Greeters don’t show up on time, do a half-baked job, rarely make eye contact, and seem don’t they don’t really care. I saw this on my twitter feed not too long ago: Church Greeters who scowl when they are told good morning really …
Does an Invitation to Church Equal Evangelism?
Have you ever considered that simply inviting someone to church could be all it takes for Jesus to take hold of them and change their life? All you have to do is ask them to come! It seems too simple, doesn’t it?
Evangelism Strategies Podcast and Webinar Replay
In this complimentary Evangelismcoach webinar, I’ll share with you 3 major areas of evangelism training for your congregation to help you develop your evangelism strategy for 2012. Among other things you’ll lean: 3 areas of focus for congregational evangelism to start your planning 6 different evangelism styles to match the right program for your congregation …
What is the Church doing in the community?
Four out of ten pastors lack strong interest in increasing community outreach.
10 Roles an Evangelism Committee Can Have in The Church
Evangelism is the tool that brings others to Christ and His Church.
Check out these 10 Roles an Evangelism Committee can Fulfill in a Healthy Congregation.
3 Focus Areas to Grow a Small Church
In a discussion group I am a part of, a small church pastor asked the group for advise on how to grow a small church. Well meaning Christians threw out all sorts of cliches that lack substance, even if they are true: Pray Follow God Get back to the Bible Don’t follow man’s ways Just …