The gospel should be offensive, not your church members or a lackadaisical hospitality ministry.
Your hospitality ministry in the church is one of the most important factors in the experience of first time visitors that will influence their personal decision to come back to your church.
Getting Visitor Contact information is the first step towards your visitor followup, yet many churches fail at it. Listen to this expert on the subject describe different ways and what is the best way.
Take a quick audit of your church signage by following your signs to a particular destination. Can you locate the restrooms, sanctuary, front door, children's ministry, prayer rooms, class rooms, elevators pretty easily?
Philip got a word from the Lord to “Go and stand next to that chariot.” Can we get such words for today that lead us into an evangelism encounter? In the attached podcast, my friend Mike Neelley talks about his experiences as a regular part of his evangelistic life as he waits on God’s guidance …
In the video, I answer a reader question about how to find the best evangelism training course for your local church. Listen in:
Learn these four principles with great effectiveness in helping people discover Jesus. Based on the story from Acts 8, you can learn to recognize these evangelism moments.
Sometimes, we simply grow blind to the obvious. Junk gathers in rooms. Church Bulletins from prior weeks are left laying around. Lost and found items keep gathering in a corner. Bulletin boards get out of date. Toilet handles need jiggling. Window sills accumulate dust. In churches, we simply get used to the way things are. …
I received this testimonial from a pastor who attended the workshop where I recorded “Break the Unseen Barriers.” I enjoyed getting to know Joe during this brief event. As a pastor in my very first month at a new church, I was almost too busy to attend. I wasn’t even sure what we were doing …
You’ve worked so hard to attract church visitors. . . . . You passionately desire to reach these newcomers for Christ. You know that Jesus can make a difference in their life. Perhaps you’ve spent money on advertising like a direct mail campaign or business cards members give away. You’ve designed sermon series to hopefully …
Listen in as one Evangelism team leader describes how my 4 month evangelism team coaching process led to the evangelistic growth of their church. It’s about 25 minutes long. Key takeaways: We wanted to do this. We baptized two new people as a result Pastor’s excited because he’s seeing results More people want to share …
Listen in as one church tells the story of getting their Christmas events out to a few thousand people during a town Christmas event. I interview Kevin Cunningham, outreach pastor of a church in Nashua New Hampshire, a town of about 80,000.
Download this free Personal Testimony Questionnaire to gain an understanding of your own journey to faith. Your experience of personal evangelism will be much richer if you can master your own story.
Puzzled why your church visitors don’t come back? Maybe your members talk to each other and ignore the first time visitor. Maybe your volunteers are not serving the needs of visitors. Maybe your first time visitors don’t feel welcomed. In this audio sample from the Create a Culture of Hospitality MP3 download, I share other …
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 …
Yesterday, we had a great webinar with Paul Steinbrueck of OurChurch.com on social media for church planters and pastors. Given that many of our sign-ups were just at the beginning stages of using social media, Paul outlines how social media fits in church communication and some basic checklists about how to use social media.
I am helping launch a church. We don’t want to be known as the church in the hotel. We want to be known as the church that heals families. We don’t want people to come so we can grow the church. We want people to come and give themselves away in the community. I’ve been …
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. …
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? …
I’ve coached enough pastors and done enough seminars to know that one challenge that many of you face is finding it easy to talk about your faith in Christ. How do you find someone who is spiritually thirsty? How can you help someone on the next step of their spiritual journey towards Christ? I’ve asked author …
Today we’ve got Bill Tenny Brittian, a church consultant, pastor, and trainer of pastors. He’s the publisher of Net Results magazine and the co-host of Church Talk Radio, a podcast that is on my ipod player and I have listened to nearly every segment and hope to be on it in the future. He’s written …
Podcast with Chip Buhler on the the pastor's faith and connection to personal evangelism.
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 …
Press releases can be free publicity for your church as part of your marketing. Church press releases are remarkably simple to do once you understand some basic points and setup a distribution system for your church press release. How First PC Englewood Uses Press Releases I recently spoke with Richard Hong, pastor of First Presbyterian …
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 …
