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.
Book Review: That’s a Great Question
My unsaved friend had a few questions for me about the New Testament. He had been reading articles on the Internet about objections to the credibility of the New Testament Conspiracy theories of the church suppressing information Edits to the text that introduce conformity to the established doctrine. The search for the historical Jesus. Secret …
Book Review: Becoming a Contagious Christian
Becoming a Contagious Christian helped me change my approach to personal evangelism and now I teach these same principles in my materials throughout the US and Latin America. They present a practical form of personal evangelism that can help the ordinary person in the pew overcome their shyness or fears in talking about their faith …
Book Review: Offer Them Life
Having read a steady diet of popular church growth books, Dan Dunn’s Offer Them Life: A Life-Based Evangelistic Vision is different academic challenge. It is not a book to consume in one sitting, but a great book for those who want to think deeply on the biblical theme of Life. I love Dan’s passion for …
Book Review: The 7 Principles of an Evangelistic Life
I am a big advocate of evangelism as a lifestyle. When I read the book the Acts, I see how evangelism played out in the life of the apostles and early believers. They spent time with people. They shared their faith, and the “Lord added daily” to their numbers. How can a believer experience a …
Give This Book to Your Spiritually Thirsty Friend
One spiritual conversation is just not enough. The Lord will use many conversations to help bring your friend to Christ. But sometimes, you’ll want something that you can give your spiritually thirsty friend something that they can read and ponder over. Books are good for this. Invite your friend to read one with you and …
5 Star Book Reviews for Church Greeter 101
I was recently asked to organize our almost nonexistent hospitality team at church. I was honored to be asked but honestly not sure where to start. I mean you just say hello to people right?!? Who knew there was so much more to what a greeting team actually does! Thank you so much for this …
Book Review: Living Dangerously, Shawn Anderson
The Great Commission calls each of us to “Go and make disciples.” Your lifestyle plays a part in that process. Eventually, you’ll need to talk about your faith in Christ and share the gospel, but your lifestyle and your character will play a role in your witness. What areas of your character significantly impact another …
Book Review:Eats with Sinners
I’ve been in the Church for so long that deep friendships with people apart from Christ have been neglected. I’ve filled my day with work, managing the lives of my children, administrative and planning for the local church, and running an international ministry. Recently, I’ve been having a season of reading and re-reading a bunch …
Book Review: Coffee Shop Conversations
In my personal evangelism training, I focus on evangelistic conversation based on Noticing the prompting of the Holy Spirit Listening for Spiritual Thirst Using great questions to help a person discover their thirst and need for Christ. So I’m always on the lookout for great conversational tools and training to help Christians grow more comfortable with …
Book Review: Spiritual Conversations by Gary Rohrmayer
Over the years, I’ve developed an ability to hear spiritual thirst in a conversation. Spiritual thirst is what allows me to have normal conversations about my faith and the spiritual journey of the other person. It’s their thirst that propels them to find solutions in Christ. The concept of spiritual thirst has become a foundational …
Review: CoffeeHouse Theology
This past summer I got to read CoffeeHouse Theology: Reflecting God in Everyday Life. I even did a webinar (See CoffeeHouse Theology Webinar Replay) with Ed Cyzewski to download the MP3 or view online. Some of Ed’s insights are pretty profound. Is theology important in personal evangelism? What role does theology play in how we …
Book Review: Serving as a Church Greeter Les Parrott
The church greeter surveys that I’ve been conducting on greeter training material reveal that there is a tremendous lack of easily available information on recruiting and training church greeters as of 2009 when I write this article. I’ve read a series of books on the issue, and agree with that observation. UPDATE: I wrote my …
Review of Beyond Belief by Patrick McElroy
Beyond Belief by Patrick McElroy is subtitled Live a Consistent, Spiritually Powerful life. From the back cover: “a book about breaking free from a spiritually weak life to achieve the consistently powerful one that is available to every believer. It’s a Bible Study 101 that guides reader to a greater revelation of God.”
Book Review-Evangelism for the Rest of Us
Many of us know people who seem to have a simple time sharing their faith. When we think of the successful evangelists we know, many seem like easy and out going extroverts, who have no problem talking to strangers, or causally talking about faith with everyone at the family reunion. No fear in them at …
Assimilating Church Visitors: Beyond the First Visit
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 …
Evangelism Book Review: Evangelism Made Slightly Less Difficult
The goal of Nick Pollard’s Evangelism Made Slightly Less Difficult: How to Interest People who Aren’t Already Interested is to help you get uninterested people interested in Jesus, to reach people “who are simply not interested in hearing about Jesus because they are quite happy with their own views” (p. 31). The subtitle makes it …
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 …