How to get more faith sharing conversations during your week
Looking back over the last 10 days, how many conversations about your faith have happened?
If you want more, what is one action you can start to generate more?
Spheres of Influence
Do you have any non-Christian friends? A common problem that I encounter when I teach evangelism seminars is the objection: I’ve been in the church so long, I don’t have any non-Christians friends. Therefore, I don’t have anyone I know that I can pray for. I don’t know my neighbors, so how can I pray …
What is Evangelism? A Definition
What is evangelism? What do I use for the meaning of evangelism at EvangelismCoach.org?
Church Hospitality Survey Assessment or Audit
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.
Should You Rename Your Church?
We considering re-nameing our church as part of the re-branding conversation around getting a new street sign. This was our decision making process.
Your Turn: How to Identify Church Visitors in a Large Church
Five body language observations that can help your church greeters detect first-time church visitors
Help Church Visitors Make Connections
God sovereignly brings visitors to your church. But once people are first welcomed into your church during their first visit, what happens when the service is over? How do you help your church visitor connect?
44 Spiritual Conversation Starter Questions
Tactful spiritual conversation starter questions can open the doors to significant life changing conversations.
Check out these 44 conversation starter questions for conversations about Christianity, Jesus and a relationship with God.
6 Ways to Follow Up on First Time Church Visitors
Healthy churches know that every church visitor is a gift from God.
But many churches do not have a well-designed visitor follow-up process that helps turn visitors into fully committed members.
Plan your church visitor follow-up strategy well.
Tangible Signs of Spiritual Thirst
Spiritual thirst is evidence that God the Father is drawing a person to Jesus. Finding spiritual thirst is the core habit of personal evangelism I teach. What does it look like? See it in the story of the Ethiopian
Church Dropouts — why people find it easy to leave
If it was easy for me to drop out the back door of the local church, what can you do to help close that door? Here are 4 simple strategy steps
Do people know where your church is?
Out of sight, out of mind. That statement is true with the visibility of your church. If people can’t see it or find it, it’s out of their mind. This doesn’t work. Do people know your church exists or where it is? Read this story of one person knew nothing about the church on the …
6 Week Evangelism Small Group Guide
A six week evangelism study small group to hold each other accountable in personal evangelism to increase the number of conversations. If you want a group that doesn't simply study evangelism, but does it, here is a one approach
Using Tracts for Evangelism
A mother asked about using tracts for personal evangelism. Tracts may not always be useful in every context, but using tracts for evangelism can be a helpful conversation starter, a great seed planter, and the Holy Spirit can use it much later than the day the person received it.
A Sample Prayer Walk for Your Community
A simple prayer walk exercise to listen for the promptings of the Holy Spirit. Neat little time limit.
20 Fears about Personal Evangelism
When I do personal evangelism workshops, I hear all about different fears that people have. I list 20 different evangelism fears that I encounter and offer a resource to help you overcome those fears.
18 Common Evangelism Fears
Many books on personal evangelism tell stories of personal fear of evangelism. Evangelism is scary for many, for a variety of reasons? Why does one have to be brave? Here is a list that I have compiled over the years of teaching workshops and seminars and the most common responses that I get to the …
6 Different Gospel Presentations for Personal Evangelism
We always want to be prepared to explain our faith.
We get better at it as we mature in Christ.
God's sovereignty is not an excuse to avoid evangelism, nor to be sloppy in our presentation.
How to Give Constructive Feedback to Your Church Greeters
One of the hard roles of a church hospitality ministry leader is to correct behavior that can have long reaching negative consequences.
Let me give you a few tips I've used to provide feedback to church greeters and correction to careless mistakes by hospitality ministry volunteers.
6 Goals of a Church Greeter
Every Sunday, I see commentary on Twitter about the joys at serving as a church greeter, complaints about experiences with rude church greeters, sarcasm aimed at unprepared greeters at church, and nervous greeters announcing how nervous they are. But if you can help your new church greeters know what to aim for, it might help them to rise to the occasion.
Different Greetings to Welcome Church Visitors
I asked some peers in some of my networking groups: Is there something more Church greeters can say than “Good morning?” What are some of your suggestions? Please comment on site and join the discussion. This was a response to a prior article: What do you say greeting church visitors?
The Best Church Visitor Assimilation Tool
The best church visitor assimilation tool is not a visitor contact card. Nor is it a complicated data system, direct mail, automated emails, or even a free gift for your church visitors from the beautiful welcome center. Those things help, but they are not the most powerful assimilation tools. The best tool is ....
39 Days of Personal Evangelism–Tweetable List
39 days of personal evangelism tips that anyone can do and easy implement into their daily life.
2 Church Website Pages to Help First Time Visitors
Two important church website pages that could answer questions in the minds of visitors.
One is particular to this large urban church with limited parking.
The other is for every church.