Do you need an Evangelism Mentor? After nearly every conference I teach, I am asked if I can provide some one to one mentoring in personal evangelism or personalized coaching for evangelism. How can pastors find time to do evangelism? What can pastors do to improve their own evangelism skills? How can one grow in …
I just finished reading Nick Pollard’s Evangelism Made Slightly Less Difficult: How to Interest People who Aren’t Already Interested (order your copy direct from Amazon). Nick is a full time evangelist and speaker who lives in Great Britain. With cover endorsements from Josh McDowell, George Verwer, and Lesslie Newbigin, I figured it would be a …
I was recently introduced to the Evangecube script for use in personal evangelism. I’ve heard about it for years, but never encountered one until last month.
I wrote the following essay to a friend while I was traveling to a friend’s funeral in 2006. It covers several points around what is evangelism. Is evangelism more than four points and a prayer? Letter to a friend: This morning, I’m in Cincinnati to attend the funeral of a friend who died of cancer. …
If you haven’t done it already, what is your church’s evangelism strategy for 2008? Have you set measurable evangelism goals? I met a pastor last week who was telling me that their church will be focused on Evangelism as one of their top priorities in 2008. He has invited me to come in my role …
Dever’s article that we reviewed (What Evangelism Isn’t) made the point that Evangelism is not only personal testimony. Personal testimony is part of evangelism (it is one aspect of the joyfully sharing part of the evangelism definition). I found a website that collects Bible Impact Stories. It is run maintained by the American Bible Society. …
While I’m away in Nicaragua, I’ve asked my good friend and sister in Christ, Susan Finck-Lockhart to write up an article for EvangelismCoach. Susan and I have the privilege of teaching on Evangelism regularly at various workshops for www.prmi.org around the States. I’ve known Susan for over 10 years and am grateful that she has …
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 …
I had a chance to share the gospel because I explained prayer to someone who doesn’t know how to pray or what a prayer burden is.
There are a variety of scripts that one can use to help you explain the gospel in simple and clear terms. That is one of the 3 core evangelism skills I focus on. Each script has its critics and endorsers and it’s not our point here to argue or debate it.
Dare to Share Youth Ministries has posted an article about How to Share Your Faith Using Thanksgiving (link broken). It has a few good spiritual discussion questions that can be used during Thanksgiving celebrations. Thanksgiving weekend in America typically involves large family gatherings, more food than one could eat, and for some families, hours of …
I was reading a thread on one of the Bible Forums I belong to, and came across a great post answering the question “How do you start witnessing to somebody?” That’s a great question. I’ve been a Christian for nearly 20 years and witnessing simply seems natural to me. It is the overflow of my …
Yesterday, I met with fellow blogger Jimmy Kinnaird here in Atlanta to discuss personal evangelism. We had a great meeting at Starbucks, and it was awesome putting a real face on a real person that I first met because of our blogging interest on personal evangelism. An idea we kicked around is about an evangelism …
It’s my mission to help you find your evangelism passion and provide training to help you express your faith. It’s always a privilege to do Evangelism Training Seminars in local churches over the course of a couple of days. Watch people and churches get excited about doing evangelism keeps me going.
How does one develop an evangelism team or an effective evangelism group in the local church? In the denominational circles I run in (Presbyterian Church USA), this has been relegated to the Evangelism Committee, or the Witness and Service Committe, or New Member Committee, or the “Make up another name just to have a name …
Passion to be involved in personal evangelism will fade over time. How can you keep the passion high? Here are 15 strategies I use.
A few years ago, I listened to a talk given by Mark Mittelberg, who was on the staff with Willow Creek at the time. It was titled “Sharpening Your Evangelistic Edge.” Below are 8 barriers to effective evangelism communication that Mr. Mittleberg shared. If you have others to add, I’d love to hear them. Barriers …
In some of our weekend Evangelism Training Seminars, we often build in a practical exercise in personal evangelism, a “lab time,” where people can leave the retreat setting and venture out to do evangelism in the style that we teach. It is modeled after Phillip and the Ethiopian Eunuch. The basic premise is that we ask God …
How can you pray for the work of evangelism? Praying for yourself: Jimmy Kinnaird has developed a useful prayer acrostic called “BOLDNESS” to help you prayerfully prepare yourself. This is an awesome acronym and a helpful structure. Here are some things I pray for: To live a consistent and holy attractive life. To be authentic …
I attended a conference nearly 10 years ago by Mark Miller that gave away these secrets to Effective Evangelism Training. Challenge the conventional wisdom — Evangelism is a process not an event (see: Evangelism: Process or Event?), so one size doesn’t fit every context. Make Evangelism Personal — Who do you know that does not …
In an article I read at Mark Robert’s blog on missional living, there is the following: Q: “Even though you talk about ‘just being honest,’ I’m still not comfortable with the idea of sharing my faith with others. What would you suggest to help me get started?” He answered: Years ago someone admitted to me: …
I was caught off guard. I was in class, describing my ideal job. I would be a full time evangelist, working with churches to implement evangelism programs, conduct live Evangelism Training Seminars and Workshops in a local church to keep evangelism fires hot, and conduct outreaches with the local church into a neighborhood. A student asked me: …
I like to use questions in my evangelism conversations with people. Questions help them think about matters of faith. Questions help draw people into conversations. Questions can help further a conversation along rather than me making declarations all the time.
Today I read a post at 9 Marks about the corporate role of the church and its support of personal evangelism. The writer asks: What is the role of the local church (i.e., corporate witness) in our personal evangelism (i.e., individual, personal witness)? Consider the ethos of your church. Are you proud to invite a …
