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.
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?
You can turn this list of bible verses on welcoming the stranger into a simple email to your greeter volunteers as a reminder of how they are called to extend an awesome welcome to your visitors and regular attenders. You might even consider separating them out one at a time for your reminder emails.
In this complimentary Evangelismcoach webinar, I’ll share with you 3 major areas of evangelism training for your congregation to help you develop your evangelism strategy for 2012. Among other things you’ll lean: 3 areas of focus for congregational evangelism to start your planning 6 different evangelism styles to match the right program for your congregation …
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 …
I found that Intervarsity.org has a some good evangelistic questions during a reasonable conversation, broken out into groups. Check these out: Some sample questions.Here are some good questions that will help you move into a conversation about spiritual things. Be sure and listen carefully to their answers. And be prepared to share your own answers …
Some people find it hard to talk about their personal Christian testimony or faith journey with Christ. It could be that you have never been asked, or it could be that you’ve not taken the time to think it through. You simply know that you follow Jesus. This questionnaire can help you grow comfortable in …
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.
