Video: How to find the best evangelism course for your church
In the video, I answer a reader question about how to find the best evangelism training course for your local church. Listen in:
Video: Dr. Michael Green examines What is the gospel
Michael Green has had a tremendous influence on my ministry through his books that I read while in seminary. Michael gave the first talk at a recent confidence in the gospel event. If you have 18 spare minutes, listen to his challenge to us to be faithful to the Apostolic Gospel. Michael Green provides the keynote …
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 …
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 …
7 Axioms of Personal Evangelism
Earlier in October of 2011 I taught a class to pastors in the only seminary in Barquisimeto Venezuela. The Wesleyan Seminary of Venezuela (founded by a United Methodist Church in Georgia) has established a ministry school in the central Venezuelan city of Barquisimeto. It provides continuing academic training for current pastors, church planters and those …
Do the Work of the Evangelist
This past week, I gave a workshop at the National Evangelism Workshop in Nashville TN. Ed Stetzer presented some material from Transformational Church: Creating a New Scorecard for Congregations as well as reflections from 2 Timothy 4 that pumped us up: Do the work of an evangelist – 2 Timothy 4:5 1. Evangelism is Action – Do …
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 …
Don’t Rush Small Group Evangelism
This week, we launched a new small group aimed for people who don’t go to church. For our small group, 13 people showed up for the first meeting, 7 of whom I had never met before. This was the 1st of 6 meetings, and I was not leading the group. From the conversations prior to …
Podcast: Sharing your Faith while Serving the Community
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard small churches say “we are just too small” to do much of anything. In today’s podcast, I talk with a pastor whose little country church is bringing the good news of Jesus AND serving the community AND leading people to faith in Christ. I interview Pastor …
Podcast: Equipping People to Reach their Sphere of Influence
I’ve coached enough pastors and done enough evangelism training seminars to know that one challenge that many of you face is equipping your people for evangelism. How do you lead your congregation in effective evangelism? How do you equip your members to be more confident in sharing their faith? How do you do evangelism training? …
3 Reasons Church Visitors Come Back – Thom Ranier
Today’s guest article comes from Steve Dunn, Lead Pastor of the Church of God of Landisville, and author behind the blog – The Outward Focused Church.
Podcast: Get out of the Office, Pastors
I working up a new seminar on personal evangelism for pastors, and in today’s episode, I am interviewing a pastor who has found a way to have lots of conversations with unchurched people. I’ve asked him to talk about what he does for evangelism as a pastor, how he does evangelism as a pastor, and …
3 Ways Pastors Can Do Evangelism
I’ve recently been working on a new talk on Personal Evangelism for Pastors, developing practical action steps so that pastors can increase their personal involvement in evangelism. Mark Dever spoke last year at the Desiring God conference and here is a little clip on this particular issue. Some quotes: Pastors are called to equip people …
10 Practical Evangelism Tips for Pastors
I get to talk a lot with pastors at conferences I give or attend, and often on the telephone as well about some of their challenges with personal evangelism. As mentioned in the last post, this is what I hear from pastors about their personal evangelism There can be a variety of reasons why pastors …
Every life has a story
Watch this video and comment below. Every life has a story. One listening evangelism exercise we do is to spend time praying for the strangers we might meet. As we go out into the streets, strangers will occasionally start talking with us about their stories. If we slow down long enough to listen, we might …
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 …
Can Pastors find time for Evangelism?
This is what I hear from pastors about their personal evangelism “I don’t have time for personal evangelism.” “I’m not good at doing this evangelism thing.” “I wish I could get out of the office and actually talk with people.” “I wish I had learned this in seminary.” “I have no experience in personal evangelism, …
4 Keys to Implementing an Evangelism Plan
4 keys on how to implement a plan for evangelism in your church
3 Keys to Ignite the Evangelism Passion of a Congregation
How to raise your church's passion for personal evangelism, centered on the role that the central pastor plays in modeling, encouraging, and leading personal evangelism in the church
8 Evangelism Sermon Topics
I’ve interacted with many of you who have declared that this year will be the “Year of Evangelism” within your church. One aspect of developing that vision is giving sermons on Evangelism, or developing a sermon series. Abraham Lincoln is reported to have said “It wasn’t a great sermon because the preacher didn’t ask me …
Beating Dunbars Number
Several years ago, I was challenged as a youth pastor to give my leadership away — delegate, delegate, and delegate. The challenger warned me that I could only reach so many people, but if I delegated and empowered, I could lead larger ministries with longer reaches and greater sustainability. The challenger mentioned that my personal …
7 Questions to Evaluate Your Church’s Evangelism
The following article comes from LogosPathosEthos: Questions to Evaluate Your Church’s Evangelism. It’s a great list of questions that doesn’t need modification. Gene Getz in his book, Sharpening the Focus of the Church, lists some helpful questions to clarify the church’s purpose in evangelism. Is our church concerned about its immediate community? Are we reaching …
Church-Based Relational Evangelism
Why is there no noticeable change even after all time and effort to do training and provide resources?
5 Phases of Church Renewal
As I continued to read through Ron Crandall’s book, he gives a list of principles for church renewal and revitalization from the ages of church history. It may seem like a no-brainer, but at least observations through church history back it up. 1. Personal renewal. Renewal of a church begins with renewal of the individual. …