In a post over at Jesus Creed » Letters to Emerging Christians, Scott McKnight does a good analysis of the “Romans Road” as a script for evangelism. He says two things that are worthy of pondering: The third thing now: the Romans Road works for some. It is just as important to say it doesn’t …
Over the weekend, we held a yard sale — selling off some our posessions (which is why it was a quiet posting week for me). We even let people know our house is for sale, though not at a yard sale price. We had a lot of people coming to our house, looking over stuff …
Check out this video entitled "Jesus vs Christians," a collection of man-on-street interviews. Personal evangelism doesn't have to be this difficult. The gospel should be offensive, not you.
We attended a small Spanish language community church.
God draws people to himself through worship, even in one who doesn't understand the words.
A young man described for us his journey from empty brokenness to faith in Christ. His spiritual thirst prompted him to take a key step.
It’s much easier to cooperate with God’s activity, rather than wasting hours of argument prying open a locked heart.
Sometimes conversions are just unbelievable.
They “fall from heaven” so to speak.
There is no evangelist, no gospel presentation, no explanation of the law, it just happens – God does all the work.
Easter provides evangelism conversation opportunities in the course of normal everyday life.
You might find yourself at any given moment in a potential divine appointment, or prompted to start a conversation with someone whom God underlines for you.
I've learned to take the risk and offer to pray with people when they make small talk about some crisis the story of the life.
That crisis often brings out the spiritual thirst a person has.
As evangelists, we need a “Default setting.” A default setting is a gospel script that we have mastered so well that it is second nature to use it. A default setting enables us to explain a few points of the gospel clearly when its appropriate.
I felt like I was witnessing, but feeling awful that I had no purpose for the evangelism survey other than to force open a conversational door.
The basic premise of Reimagining Evangelism: Inviting Friends on a Spiritual Journey is that God is at work already in the lives of pre-Christians, and our job in evangelism is to participate in that work. The author uses the metaphor of being part of a “detective agency” to explain personal evangelism.
All of us have unique stories that God has given to us. Some of us have conversion experience stories. Some of us have had gradual awareness stories of owning why and how we believe. But our testimony is more than just coming to a place of faith.
