Divine Appointments Start with Noticing People
Divine Appointments can start where we are aware of the gentle prompting of the Holy Spirit to pay attention more carefully to a particular person.
8 Conversational Bridges to the Gospel
A blog had a great article ( “Gospel Connections in Suburbia“) that has evangelistic conversational tips. The problem posed is How can I take a natural conversation about common things and connect it to the gospel without it coming off like an abrupt topic change? The farther the distance between the subject matter at hand …
Church-Based Relational Evangelism
Why is there no noticeable change even after all time and effort to do training and provide resources?
A Fearless Evangelism Class
For the next few weeks, I’m teaching in a Spanish language missions school, particularly on cross cultural conversational evangelism. Two of the opening questions I often ask are: When I think about evangelism, I feel. . .. When “evangelism” is mentioned, I begin to think . . .
Hitchhikers Guide to Evangelism Webinar and Podcast Replay Recording
In this FREE online webinar, author and church growth consultant Bill Tenny-Brittian of 21st Century Strategies Inc will share practical steps to Overcome your fear of messing up. Find confidence to explain the value of your faith. Talk about your faith journey, walk, or conversion experience Bill Tenny-Brittian, the senior editor of Net Results magazine, …
Hitchhikers Guide to Evangelism Webinar Follow Up
Listen to the Hitchhikers Guide to Evangelism replay here. In this FREE online webinar, author and church growth consultant Bill Tenny-Brittian of 21st Century Strategies Inc will share practical steps to Overcome your fear of messing up. Find confidence to explain the value of your faith. Talk about your faith journey, walk, or conversion experience …
Do you have any non-Christian Friendships?
(HT: Image pslim) “I have no non-Christian relationships” confessed one of my evangelism coaching clients (shared with permission). “I was taking an inventory of my personal relationships and discovered that I had surrounded myself entirely with Christians.” In the Christian Cocoon This is a common description of many Christians who have been walking with the …
Paralyzed by Silence
During January, I received a series of questions via Ask Evangelism Coach section. I’ll take a few posts to answer them. If you have a question to ask, please do so there, or on Twitter or Facebook.
7 Tips For More Spiritual Conversations
Most of us find that the frequency of our spiritual conversations diminish over time, simply because we are too busy with life. The Ebb and Flow of Evangelism Conversations We go to a conference, get pumped to talk with people about Jesus, and then over time, the number of conversations diminish. We might read an …
Respecting Boundaries in Conversation
This weekend, one of my friends shared with me a first hand story about an evangelistic encounter he had. I found myself encouraged as I listened to it. Here is a one who gets the idea of cooperating with the work of the Holy Spirit. I’ve retold the story here for your thoughts and for …
Film Review of Flywheel
I recently watched a visual parable that demonstrates the role of the Holy Spirit in Evangelism. It’s the film: Flywheel. The story follows the awakening faith of the central character, a used car salesman. Along the way, you see moments that when tied together cause a crisis of faith, which leads the man to offer …
Sam gets Baptized: The Fruit of Personal Evangelism
I share a guest article with the author’s permission, after she’s been applying the evangelism training received from my materials. Of course names are changed for privacy. The photo is a different friend of mine conducting a baptism.
Is your faith in your conversations?
Today’s guest article is provided by Paul Stokes, renewal advocate for the Group for Evangelism and Renewalwithin the United Reformed Church (UK), or GEAR. I am on mission work, conducting Evangelism Training Ministry in Nicaragua working with Young Life Leadership on the Healing Ministry of Jesus. ___________________________________________________________ Is it rude to listen-in on other people’s …
Grow from Witness to Evangelist
Most of my evangelism training occurs in mainline churches, where many people equate evangelism with Hospitality or Service Projects. Neither one is evangelism per se (For example see, Is Neighborhood Outreach Evangelism?) But there is a marked hesitancy to discuss your faith. That could be for a variety of reasons, many of which have been talked …
A Simple Transition to A Spiritual Conversation
Sunday, our family took a taxi from our home to the location of our son’s piano recital. The taxi driver was pretty talkative. Among other things he rejoiced that the price of gas has come down over 50% from a few months ago. He rejoiced that we were his last fare before going home to …
Pray First then Watch
I truly believe that prayer opens conversational doors. One of the principles that I put forth in my Fear Free Evangelism Seminar is that when you pray, evangelism stuff happens. Conversations appear. You don’t have to force a conversation. Conversations about faith simply show up. The challenge is then how to listen to their spiritual …
Evangelism Fear Poll Results
There was a little poll on the sidebar that you can answer with two clicks of the mouse. This first one was a really small sample of readers. These are not meant to be scientific polls by any means. Here are the results of our first one. What Hinders Your Personal Evangelism? Fear (56%, 9 …
Fear Free Evangelism Case Study
With permission, I want to share a story from a participant in one of the Fear Free Evangelism Seminars that I conduct I have edited it for details and confidentiality: I’ve been extremely busy on audits recently but it is on just such a trip to Atlanta 2 weeks ago that I was able to …
Reader Question via Ask EvangelismCoach
A reader from the Ukraine submitted a question via Ask Evangelism Coach section. (I’ve edited this for spelling an grammar). Hello. I am Ukrainian. I want that in my life people will be saved. I regularly share the gospel, but unfortunately there is not much fruit. What do you suggest to me about reaching people. …
Identifying Barriers to Personal Evangelism
I was cleaning out my file cabinet this week (isn’t that fun?) and found some interesting items. Actually, I found a lot of stuff that I had forgotten I had, and of course, lots of useless junk that went straight to the shredder. A clipped article about Microsoft Certification from 1993? How about a marriage …
10 practical ways of sharing your faith
Here are a 10 practical tips on personal evangelism. Each of these links will take you to further explanations and articles on these items.
Book Review-Evangelism for the Rest of Us
Many of us know people who seem to have a simple time sharing their faith. When we think of the successful evangelists we know, many seem like easy and out going extroverts, who have no problem talking to strangers, or causally talking about faith with everyone at the family reunion. No fear in them at …
Divine Appointments
A divine appointment is recognizing God’s prompting a moment that will impact someone’s life in their jourey to faith. These are kairos moments.