Develop Your Church’s Evangelism Strategy
Healthy churches grow in worship, fellowship, discipleship, and mission engagement in the community.
They also grow through evangelism.
What is your church's evangelism strategy?
Ideas for Evangelism Strategies
Your church can be used by God to lead people into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Here are ideas for Evangelism Strategies to help you do that.
Evangelism Substitute #4: Community Service
Don't let community service outreach projects become a substitute of personal evangelism
Evangelism without discipleship is incomplete
Evangelism without the potential for discipleship is incomplete. The evangelist needs a partner to make disciples.
Book Review: A Plan to Revitalize a Church’s Passion for Evangelism
One frustrating problem for small church pastors is leading a church that has no desire to share their faith. How does that pastor begin to change that and overcome the natural resistance to personal evangelism? If a pastor had no training in personal evangelism (which is likely if the church is a mainline denomination), then …
Gospel centered life change is the church’s work
From a pastor friend of mine: “Two Amazing stories from church today…card from one Campus said, “the guy I used to buy drugs from came to church and got saved today.” Report from another campus “I was on my way to buy heroin to kill myself tonight b/c I had no hope…saw the church…came in…gave …
Should we invite unsaved friends to church?
I posted this question to the EvangelismCoach.org Facebook page. “Should we invite unsaved friends to church?” Give a Yes or No, and then give a reason. The answers were pretty divided between Yes and No, with some strong opinions: It’s not my point here to drift into a full theology of the nature of the …
3 Avenues of Evangelistic Prayer
A reader question via Ask EvangelismCoach wonders: What are some prayer points for church growth? While there are many different avenues for intercessory prayers for church growth, let me suggest 3 avenues.
Video: How Your Church Can Grow in Evangelism
As a church leader, what if you don’t excel in personal evangelism? Can your congregation still enjoy conversion growth? Watch these three pastors in this 10-minute video about how churches can grow in evangelism. Darrin Patrick, Mark Dever and Matt Chandler spend some time talking about their different evangelism approaches. You might like these books …
Does an Invitation to Church Equal Evangelism?
Have you ever considered that simply inviting someone to church could be all it takes for Jesus to take hold of them and change their life? All you have to do is ask them to come! It seems too simple, doesn’t it?
Evangelism Strategies Podcast and Webinar Replay
Complimentary Webinar on Evangelism Strategies, Shared in 2012
Top Reasons Unchurched People Choose a Church
Thom Rainer surveyed adults who became church going believers. Through interviews with the formerly unchurched, he discovered some top reasons why they would choose their church.
The Prayer Station at Faith in Action Sunday
Prayer booths like this are an opportunity for evangelism that is not aggressive.
Your guests expect to talk a little about their spiritual needs while visiting your prayer station.
4 Keys to Implementing an Evangelism Plan
4 keys on how to implement a plan for evangelism in your church
The Year of Evangelism – An Evangelism Strategy
Thinking of planning a "Year for Evangelism" as your church theme for the coming 12 months? Here are some brainstorming starter questions to help you begin to plan.
What can your church do in 2009?
Take a look at this list. As you think through your 2009 goals as a church, use this checklist to help you plan your evangelism strategy. What can increase your focus on attention on evangelism/missions? What evangelism tools can cause you to think outside the box? What does your heart desires for reaching your …
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
The church and personal evangelism
Today I read a post at 9 Marks about the corporate role of the church and its support of personal evangelism. The writer asks: What is the role of the local church (i.e., corporate witness) in our personal evangelism (i.e., individual, personal witness)? Consider the ethos of your church. Are you proud to invite a …