5 Ways to Bless Your Neighbor
Dave Ferguson shares five ways to bless your neighbors. This is a helpful structure to live out in order to live into conversational contexts for personal evangelism.
Book Review: Untamed Alan Hirsch
“There are two kinds of people in the world: those who live the adventure, and those who only read about others living the adventure.” Alan Hirsch lives the adventure of being a follower of Jesus. His experiences and learnings show clearly in his writings, and even more so in this book written with his wife, Untamed: …
How I Prepared a Church for Door to Door Evangelism
A church on invited me out last weekend to prepare their team to go door to door. I thought I was invited to give my workshop on personal evangelism. Because of some miscommunication, I didn’t realize that this was my expected purpose until it was too late. The organizer mentioned that 53 people were attending …
Getting beyond the walls
Today’s Guest Article is from my friend who has served as our translator during our Nicaragua mission trips. Earl and his family have been serving as church planters in Nicaragua for years, and he shares with us some reflections on getting out of the church walls. Here you go. . . . . . . …
The Prayer Station at Faith in Action Sunday
Pastors Allenn and Debbie Kemp recently led their church into a Faith in Action Sunday, following a program that has been developed by World Vision. They chose to take their regular Sunday service and move it to the front lawn of the their church — going to the streets, so to speak. Their church has …
How to Setup a Prayer Station
One way that you can discover your community need is through setting up prayer stations at your outreach events. For example, we did one at a dental fair where we partnered with the local dental school to give free cleanings to kids (Photos below). Making this prayer station service available allows people who want prayer …
The Reciprocal Church
Dr. Kevin Yoho,General Presbyter Newark Presbytery has put together a presentation called The Reciprocal Church. I like what he’s done in calling “the church” back into the nieghborhood, using the idea of reciprocity. Does the church give benefit to the community in exchange for the investment that the community makes in the church? Or put …
The Missional Church Links
Here are some links that I have found while doing some research on the Missional Church: Planting Missional Churches –The Biblical Basis Of Church Planting Planting Missional Churches – The Basics Of Church Planting Planting Missional Churches – Re-Developing A Missional Mindset For North America Free Resources for Planting Missional Churches (There are so many …
10 Distinctives of Postmodern Churches
I came across this list of 10 Distinctives of Postmodern Churches from Ed Stetzer’s book, Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age. Be unashamedly spiritual. People are tired of the modern belief that everything can be answered by science and reason. They are open to something mystical and spiritual. Promote incarnational ministry. Authenticity is essential. …
Guest Article: Your Attitude and Relational Evangelism
Your Attitude plays a role in relational evangelism! Guest article by Jimmy Kinnaird It’s about attitude! Attitude is just about everything in relationships. In fact, it is the most important factor in establishing rapport with another person. How can you even begin to share Christ effectively if your attitude is not right? The Bible says that …
Ten Reasons To Use Your Local Coffee Shop for Your Evangelism Small Groups
I’ve had many a conversation with church planters who want to start a coffee house church members who want to start a coffee house ministry church members who want to run a coffee shop churches who want to deal Fair Trade Coffee (such as Beyond Beans) for their gatherings. building committees that dream a coffee …
Complete Evangelism will Impact a Culture
Jim Wallis spoke to our gathering at the National Evangelism Conference for the PCUSA. I appreciated much of what he had to say. Rather than write my own summary, I have searched a few news articles and found this one to be pretty representative summary of Wallis talk. Spiritual renewal key for social transformation, says …