This Journey to Faith Took 3 Years
When a young man eavesdropped on my prayer time, it started him on a journey to faith in Christ.
God is sovereign over the process of evangelism, using us even when we may not know it.
Contact Evangelism as we do it
When we do open-air contact evangelism in the local park, we'll use dramas, mimes, sketches, and the like.
Contact Evangelism Gone Wild
As I mentioned in my previous post on contact evangelism as a evangelism method, I share my thoughts on how to train people and evangelists who are scared of this methodology. How do I help such people improve their personal evangelism skills? By far, when I ask people about their evangelism fears at personal evangelism training …
The Perception of Contact Evangelism
Recently, I have been giving some local church workshops on personal evangelism with church members who have had lots of prior training in personal evangelism: How to present the gospel in less than 3 minutes How to steer a conversation to Jesus. How to present the Good News to a total stranger. These passionate evangelists …
Your 50% in the work of Evangelism
Steven Furtick blogs about not putting unnecessary burdens on ourselves while sharing the gospel. He calls it “Your 50%”. Essentially, Furtick calls us to remember that We are called to bear witness to our faith. God is responsible for calling people to respond in faith. The proclamation of the gospel message through word and deed …
How I Prepared a Church for Door to Door Evangelism
A church on invited me out last weekend to prepare their team to go door to door. I thought I was invited to give my workshop on personal evangelism. Because of some miscommunication, I didn’t realize that this was my expected purpose until it was too late. The organizer mentioned that 53 people were attending …
30 Days of Prayer: Day 13 – Conversion process is discernable
I once gave a talk to children at a Bible Camp in Panama. Outside of the covered patio we used as a lecture hall, mango trees were getting heavy with fruit. The mangoes were almost in season. I had picked one bruised and green mango that had fallen on the ground. Turning it over in …
Book: Organic Outreach For Ordinary People
In Organic Outreach for Ordinary People: Sharing Good News Naturally, author Kevin Harney sets out to show us a way that ordinary people can do evangelism. The book offers solid theology of appropriate Bible passages specific actions steps one can take after each chapter, Questions for personal and group reflection. Kevin looks at relational evangelism …
Podcast and Webinar Replay: Developing a Sowing Mentality – Gary Rohrmayer
Has your church plateaued in its evangelistic effectiveness? Perhaps, your church has stalled out in its evangelistic passion. People are not coming to faith and your members are not really engaging people into finding faith in Christ. The life-saving station has become the club of comfort. Yet, other churches continue to grow year after year. …
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? …
How to talk about spiritual things with a friend
Moving a conversation around to spiritual things can be the most difficult part of witnessing. We can talk freely with our friends about many subjects, but are at a loss when we want to bridge the gap between everyday life and the Lord. What does driving to work every morning or playing golf or washing …
30 Days of Prayer: Day 12 – The mystery of conversion
“Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.” – Mark 4:27 How does the seed grow? I remember science projects I did in elementary school to make seeds sprout. We played with the variables of soil, light, water, and even gravity (by using …
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 …
30 Days of Prayer Day 10: Surprised by Joy
Jesus tells us another parable about the kingdom of heaven in Matthew 13. “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.” Matthew 13:44 In contrast to the parable …
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 …
30 days of Prayer: Day 7 The Process of Evangelism
I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 1 Cor 3:6-7 (NIV) Paul gives us a great analogy to talk about the conversion process. It picks up on some of the parables …
30 Days of Prayer Story: An Invitation to Church
“Where do you go to church?” inquires the barber cutting my hair. I’m sitting in the barber’s chair, getting the personal haircut that has been needed since the last day I left that chair nearly 3 months ago. I try my best to get the same barber every time to nurture a contact relationship. The …
30 Days of Prayer: Day 1 Am I too busy to see?
Take 5 minutes and pray for your city, Ask God to give you His eyes to see the crowds.
How teenage evangelism is changing
The number of Christian teenagers actively sharing their faith is declining. Believing teenagers were asked if they had attempted to explain their religious beliefs to someone else with different religious beliefs with a hope that they might receive Jesus Christ as Savior. In 1997, 63% of “born-again” youth answered affirmatively. In December 2009, that number …
Review: The Unexpected Adventure Lee Strobel Mark Mittelberg
Just this past week, I picked up a copy of The Unexpected Adventure: Taking Everyday Risks to Talk with People about Jesus. One of our mission supporters enabled us to acquire a Nook, the e-reading device from Barnes and Noble, and this was one of the first books I acquired. I simply needed something to …
Personal Evangelism Mistake #4
Today’s Guest post is “Top 10 Evangelism Mistakes, Number Four” from Shawn Anderson’s Living Dangerously blog (no longer online).
Conversational Evangelism Training Course
From surveying my readers, there are two major challenges to personal evangelism When is the right time to share my faith? How and where do I start a conversation? You probably know the feelings of fear and nervousness surrounding this “moment” Will I mess up? What if I get it wrong? Am I forcing my …