How to Use the Evangecube Gospel Script
I was recently introduced to the Evangecube script for use in personal evangelism. I’ve heard about it for years, but never encountered one until last month.
God’s Heart for the Nations, Part IV — The Holy Spirit Empowers
Regardless of skin color, flag, economic condition, gender, nationality, the people from every nation, tribe, people and language will be in worship. We will enjoy the presence of those from Columbia, from Russia, from Australia to Uganda. From Canada to Argentina. Israelis who worship Jesus, Saudi's who worship Jesus.
God’s Heart for the Nations — Part III
In part I of God’s Heart for the Nations, we saw God’s heart for the nations, and how reaching the nations is part of God’s ultimate plan. In part II of God’s Heart for the Nations, we saw how the Father initiates in the choice of Israel to begin the process of redemption. Today, we’ll …
God’s heart for the Nations, Part II
Yesterday in Part I of God’s Heart for the Nations, we saw that God’s redemptive plan was for the nations. This is accomplished by individuals, but ultimately, the plan of redemption will impact nations. Every knee will bow, every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord – Phillipians 2:9-11 Today, we look at the …
God’s Heart for the Nations
Today, we begin a series entitled “God’s Heart for the Nations.” Salvation is not just for individuals, but for the nations. Here is what burns in my heart as my passion in life: to help the Church get passionate about evangelism and leading people into discovering their faith in Christ. I have spent hours, days, …
Book Review: Embracing Grace, by Scot McKnight
As mentioned in one of the prior define evangelism articles, we shared a brief description of the Gospel from Scot McKnight’s book Embracing Grace: A Gospel for All of Us (order from Amazon). I have finished reading McKnight’s book and want to share some of my thoughts on it. Prof. McKnight was one of my …
Wrestling with the Definition of Evangelism
I wrote the following essay to a friend while I was traveling to a friend’s funeral in 2006. It covers several points around what is evangelism. Is evangelism more than four points and a prayer? Letter to a friend: This morning, I’m in Cincinnati to attend the funeral of a friend who died of cancer. …
Define your Evangelism Strategy for 2008?
If you haven’t done it already, what is your church’s evangelism strategy for 2008? Have you set measurable evangelism goals? I met a pastor last week who was telling me that their church will be focused on Evangelism as one of their top priorities in 2008. He has invited me to come in my role …
Share Your Story Now
Dever’s article that we reviewed (What Evangelism Isn’t) made the point that Evangelism is not only personal testimony. Personal testimony is part of evangelism (it is one aspect of the joyfully sharing part of the evangelism definition). I found a website that collects Bible Impact Stories. It is run maintained by the American Bible Society. …
Definition of Evangelism: What is the Gospel?
Our definition of evangelism (from the PCUSA) has both: A message to share (“joyfully sharing the good news of the sovereign love of God) A destination (“calling people to . . . . . “) The good news is the gospel. This is what gospel means in its most basic form: “good news.” However, we …
Prayer Walking — Developing an Evangelistic Vision
Some time ago, I came across an outline of some hints about prayer walking. This prayer walking outline mixes prayer, with walking a neighborhood, and inviting God to transform that place and the people who live there. 16 Prayer Walking Tips Here are some ways you can do prayer walking (Adapted from Follow Me: Becoming …
Church Visitors – Miracles disguised as needs.
A few years ago I attended a seminar dinner on How to Minister to Visitors at the local church and I learned some great ideas that are worth sharing here. Perhaps these can help you minister to the people God brings to your church through your invitation or through His own sovereign means. 1. Miracles …
Guest Article: A Model for Renewing Small Congregations
Today’s article comes from my friend, Professor Ron Crandall, of Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky. I met Ron many years ago at an evangelism conference, and I’m thrilled that he’s submitted a guest article here about a congregational renewal program for smaller churches. Enjoy!
Guest Article: Sharing your faith in the ordinary course of life
While I’m away in Nicaragua, I’ve asked my good friend and sister in Christ, Susan Finck-Lockhart to write up an article for EvangelismCoach. Susan and I have the privilege of teaching on Evangelism regularly at various workshops for www.prmi.org around the States. I’ve known Susan for over 10 years and am grateful that she has …
Guest Article: Your Attitude and Relational Evangelism
Your Attitude plays a role in relational evangelism! Guest article by Jimmy Kinnaird It’s about attitude! Attitude is just about everything in relationships. In fact, it is the most important factor in establishing rapport with another person. How can you even begin to share Christ effectively if your attitude is not right? The Bible says that …
Divine Appointment: What is a prayer burden?
I had a chance to share the gospel because I explained prayer to someone who doesn’t know how to pray or what a prayer burden is.
How to Welcome Visitors During the Christmas Season
When the Christmas season approaches, your church calendar gets full. Volunteers step up for all the special activities.
As part of your planning, find ways to refresh the vision of great church hospitality and first impressions.
Here are 5 things we remind ourselves every Christmas season
New EvangeCube for Kids – Evangelism Script
There are a variety of scripts that one can use to help you explain the gospel in simple and clear terms. That is one of the 3 core evangelism skills I focus on. Each script has its critics and endorsers and it’s not our point here to argue or debate it.
From the Evangelism Bookshelf: Walking with the Poor
I’ve been reading Walking with the Poor, by Bryant L. Myers. The book looks at principles and practices of transformational development. The book explores poverty, causes of poverty, and calls the church to action in engaging broken systems that cause poverty. He lays forth a strong case that poverty is a “deficit, entanglement, lack of …
Church Website hides contact information
I visited a church website this morning (the day after Thanksgiving, 2007). The church was announcing the start up of an evangelism group. I like the idea — a group of people gathering regularly to encourage each other to do evangelism. This is an idea that I suggest to help develop evangelism training lab-time in …
Simple Servant Evangelism Idea
The News-Enterprise (link broken), a newspaper in Kentucky, reports about a church that brings smiles to the neighborhood on Fridays. Members stand on the corner, smile and wave at people. It may seem a little cheesy, like hawking pizza or tax services, but there is an impact: “Sometimes drivers stop and ask for prayer. . . …
Church Website Design Tool
I have visited many church websites myself and here is what I find: Cheesy organ music playing automatically. No staff information. No service times on the front page. No pictures of people. A church logo, with flashy stuff that says click here to skip intro. No directions No website at all I’m part of a …
From the Evangelism Bookshelf: unChristian — What a new Generation Thinks
This week, I’ve been reading unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity… and Why It Matters. It is the fruit of a 3 year study of perceptions that those not it in the church have about Christians and the church. Simply put, Christianity has an image problem. One surprise to the researchers was …
How do you start Witnessing to Somebody?
I was reading a thread on one of the Bible Forums I belong to, and came across a great post answering the question “How do you start witnessing to somebody?” That’s a great question. I’ve been a Christian for nearly 20 years and witnessing simply seems natural to me. It is the overflow of my …