5 Habits of Personal Evangelism for the Church Planter
After prioritizing the family, the church planter should dedicate time to the priority of personal evangelism.
Divine Appointment: Mis-dialed Phone Number
You can learn to recognize divine appointments when you learn to obey the nudge of the Holy Spirit and listen for spiritual thirst
Evangelism Styles and Your Personality
Recently, a question has been spinning in my mind:
“How do I share my faith without being obnoxious?”
Maybe that is your question too.
Knowing these 6 styles of personal evangelism can help you overcome your shyness or evangelism fears.
4 Reasons Relational Evangelism Works
Why is relational evangelism the most effective form of personal evangelism?
These 4 reasons suggest why relational evangelism works
My top 10 Books on Personal Evangelism
When I want inspiration on personal evangelism, I often revisit one of these books.
Each of these books approaches personal evangelism from a different angle and focus on different skills.
Conversations between Believers and Non-Believers
I found a list of conversations between believers and non-believers in Acts (thanks to “A Forgotten Gospel” by Mark McGrath”, see my review). The complete list comes from the book of Acts.
Evangelism Tip: What’s behind the question?
For a conversational evangelism tip, here is one I use on a frequent basis: I look for the question that is behind the question, emotion, or statement.
Compelled to share the gospel?
The Greek word translated "compel" has a wide range of meaning found in the NT, including the sense of coercion.
13 Questions to Evaluate Your Personal Evangelism
Evaluate yourself when it comes to personal evangelism. Here are 13 reflection questions to help you examine your heart.
Your church visitor has a list
Your church visitor will have an invisible list in their head that they will use to evaluate your congregation. As a leader of hospitality and welcome ministry, what can you do about that list?
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 …
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.
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
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 …