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 …
Get More Church Invitations: Relevant Sermons
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: The Pastor’s Faith and Personal Evangelism
Today we’ve got Chip Buhler, a church consultant, pastor, and trainer of pastors, and founder of Twenty 20 Vision Chip and I have been friends since we ministered together in college back in the late 80s and early 90s, when we experienced a move of God on our campus that has since produced pastors, 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 alot 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 “I don’t have time for personal evangelism.” “I’m not good …
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 …
How Pastors Lead Congregational Evangelism Series
Here is the whole series in a nutshell. . .. How Pastors Lead Congregational Evangelism #1 – Personal Involvement How Pastors Lead Congregational Evangelism #2 – Testimonies of Life Change How Pastors Lead Congregational Evangelism #3 – Challenge your Staff How Pastors Lead Congregational Evangelism #4 – Increase Invitations to Worship How Pastors Can Lead …
How Pastors Can Lead Congregational Evangelism #5
For the last part of our series Coaching Congregational Evangelism, I want to share some very practical advice a church planter gave me. “Evangelism doesn’t just happen. You’ve got to do it.” I was asking him how he grew his church from scratch in a few months (I no longer remember the exact numbers). His …
How Pastors Lead Congregational Evangelism #4
Sometimes I wonder if in the big rush to be “missional” that some churches forget the attractional side of their main event – the worship service on Sunday. But, for many churches, that Sunday event is not something that will be going away or be done away with. It’s not an either or proposition. Rather, …
How Pastors Lead Congregational Evangelism #3
Pastors carry the torch of vision, and are usually the key public person of influence in a congregation. It’s been observed that pastors are asked to cast vision for everything from Finding volunteers for work parties or service projects, Recruiting volunteers for Children’s Church, Encouraging small group participation Community initiatives or outreaches, Stewardship and fundraising, …
How Pastors Lead Congregational Evangelism #2
I’ve been listening to some podcasts from various different churches in the United States as I exercise. (Read: 6 Steps to Get your sermons recorded again to see a cheap and easy way to make them available on line.) One key feature that I’ve observed in the podcast of these growing churches is the regular …