Coming up in a few weeks, I’ll be teaching at a missions base in the Far west of Panama. I’ll be training missionaries in their concentrated lecture phase before they begin a 6 week outreach working in partnership with local churches among some of the unreached groups in Panama. This has led me to reflect …
Some time ago, I was asked in an email What are key training ideas in personal evangelism, or key steps to keeping the evangelistic temperature high in a congregation? These below focus on personal evangelism, not church growth. Evangelism values for pastors: Share personal examples of conversations that you’ve had with non-church goers. Share personal …
Evangelism Training in the local church helps believers to better share their faith
I keep adding to the list. If you have found some tips helpful for pastors to keep their personal evangelism passion high, please send them to me via email, contact us form, or simply give me a call at 804-335-1445. See these prior posts: 5 Evangelism Tips for Pastors 4 More Evangelism Tips for Pastors …
Win Arn did a study sometime ago (the actual reference is in my notes somewhere) Approx 90% of pastors thought the main purpose of the church was evangelism. Approx 10% of lay people thought the main purpose of the church was evangelism. Is it any wonder why there is a conflict of desire in a …
Reese’s research in Unbinding the Gospel found that many pastors have no personal experience with evangelism (Reese, 9). The footnote explains that 10 out of 60 denominational seminaries in mainline denominations require even half a course in evangelism for graduation. The other half of the course is often paired with stewardship (p. 22). Chapter 8 …
I finished reading Fusion: Turning First-Time Guests into Fully-Engaged Members of Your Church. This book is sure to be at the top of the list for Church Visitor Assimilation texts. There are several key elements to Fusion: Turning First-Time Guests into Fully-Engaged Members of Your Church that have made their visitor retention rate so astronomical. …
When I lived in the suburbs of Richmond VA I experienced the lack of a sense of community in our neighborhood. We had all bought nice houses, but with the exception of one family, we didn’t know any of the neighbors. What a contrast to our former subdivision where we knew everyone on the cul-de-sac, …
The FAITH method of evangelism offers a simple way to share your faith with confidence. This easy-to-remember gospel outline walks through forgiveness, availability, impossibility, turning, and heaven.
"Do versus Done" is very simple gospel presentation to think through, and gets at one aspect of the gospel message.
James Choung has written a few books on explaining the Christian Faith. On of the issues that he tackles is updating or improving the Bridge Illustration. The whole article is here at The Big Story | Tell It Slant . “Choung’s ‘napkin theology’ and its ‘four-worlds’ diagram promise to be for evangelism in the twenty-first …
How to use the Bridge Illustration to Share Christ
In our personal evangelism seminars, I have found that most participants have heard of a particular gospel script and think they know how to use it. In fact, if you are an evangelism trainer, you can use this exercise to help the audience discover that they need to work on knowing a gospel presentation. I …
The key to using gospel scripts is to know ONE "inside out"so that your explanation is crystal clear. The idea is that you can use it at any given moment, or as they say, you can "do it in your sleep" (a phrase meaning that you can explain the script without having to think too hard because you are so familiar with it). Once you are deeply familiar with one, then add another one to your skill set.
Many churches still use a bulletin or program to share the news of community life. Do you proofread your announcements? Is the font easy to read? Does the bulletin appear professional (not a 7th generation photocopy)? Are contact names and phone numbers included? If not, what central point can a person go to to get …
I was recently asked about the use of questions in spiritual conversations. How do you get an evangelistic conversation started?
Do you use press releases to market your church? Churches and other Christian groups often fail to obtain a profile in the local community because they do not know how to create effective press releases. I found this interesting church press release the other day. (Source: Presbyterians focus on ascension and evangelism – link broken). Here is …
What kind of impression do visitors get when they come into your church for the first time? Every church thinks it’s friendly. I and many others have experienced the fear factor of walking into an unknown place and knowing immediately that we don’t fit and are not really welcome to remain. During my last book …
Last month, I posted an entry on Surveying 1st Time Church Visitors to help improve your church’s welcoming. I contacted each church mentioned and discovered the effect of such an online first time visitor survey was a zero. One church visitor survey was a broken link. The second church visitor survey for first time visitors …
Below is an article I wrote for a men’s publication, coming out later in May. Mac and Susan (*) were new neighbors that moved into our cul-de-sac. A few days after the trucks left and friends stopped dropping by, my wife and I prepared some welcome cookies (fresh baked oatmeal raisin, still warm from the …
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I have a friend who gave me his personal business card. On the back, however, was a brief little gospel script. This might be a useful idea for a person to give away, and makes for a little conversational piece. Of course, the script is not complete. It doesn’t explain everything that is contained in …
Uhh… Should we be doing that in church? Originally uploaded by Diamondduste One should always proof read their church signs. This bad church sign was an awful choice of words.
