How Paul Planted the Church in Corinth
The Apostle Paul planted the church in Corinth. How he did it is told in Acts 18. We can learn some church planting evangelism practices that still work today.
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.
Church Planting Book Review: Church in the Making by Ben Arment
Church planting is not easy work. Ben Arment shares some lessons he has learned out of his church planting experiences in his book, Church in the Making: What Makes or Breaks a New Church Before it Starts In the introduction, Arment writes for church planters who struggle. How did church planting become such a spiritual …
5 Growth Lessons from Church Planting
5 Lessons I learned about church planting from planting two churches.
Tim Keller on How churches reach cities – Lausanne Capetown 2010
Here’s a 17+ minute video of Tim Keller talking at Lausanne about how you reach cities by Planting & renewing churches that are contextual to the city, Establishing citywide gospel movements By contextual churches, he speaks of planting a church that fits in your context. As part of that talk he gave these marks to …
33 Influential Evangelism Books for 2012
Outreach Magazine compiled a list of 33 influential books in the March 2012 edition. “Whether you are aspiring to evangelize more effectively, exploring the nuances of ‘missional’ in your life and your church, looking for a great small group curriculum, or just wanting to expand your ministry knowledge in general, we want to help you …
Evangelism Strategies Podcast and Webinar Replay
In this complimentary Evangelismcoach webinar, I’ll share with you 3 major areas of evangelism training for your congregation to help you develop your evangelism strategy for 2012. Among other things you’ll lean: 3 areas of focus for congregational evangelism to start your planning 6 different evangelism styles to match the right program for your congregation …
Do the Work of the Evangelist
This past week, I gave a workshop at the National Evangelism Workshop in Nashville TN. Ed Stetzer presented some material from Transformational Church: Creating a New Scorecard for Congregations as well as reflections from 2 Timothy 4 that pumped us up: Do the work of an evangelist – 2 Timothy 4:5 1. Evangelism is Action – Do …
Person of Peace Webinar Podcast with Gary Rohrmayer
I’ve coached enough pastors and done enough seminars to know that one challenge that many of you face is finding it easy to talk about your faith in Christ. How do you find someone who is spiritually thirsty? How can you help someone on the next step of their spiritual journey towards Christ? I’ve asked author …
3 Part Webinar with Gary Rohrmayer
By popular demand, I’ve been asked to make all three webinars with Gary Rohrmayer available. 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 …
Review: The House Church Book
Can a former taxi driver become a recognized world expert in planting house churches? Tyndale sent me the lastest volume on house churches for review: The House Church Book, by Wolfgang Simson. George Barna’s name is attached to it, just like his name was attached to Tony and Felicity Dale’s The Rabbit and the Elephant: …
20 Must Dos Before Launching A Church
From James White, given as a hand out during a church plant conference. Write a mission statement for your church. Write a twelve-month plan of action leading up to the first public service. Write a twelve-month plan of action for the first year of the church. Write a doctrinal statement . Write your constitution and …
Small Church Transformation
The first edition of Turnaround and Beyond: A Hopeful Future for the Small Membership Church was released in 1995 and was re-released and updated in December 2008. In the study Ron sought to explore strategies that enabled struggling and often run down small churches to experience lasting turnaround. “Turnaround” has gone by various terms in …
Praying for a church Plant
As mentioned in the last post on Evangelism Prayer List, our family is participating in planting a new multi-national church in our city. I am not the lead pastor as the focus on our ministry is evangelism training in the Americas. When I lived in Richmond, I participated in an international church plant with a …
Make and Use an Evangelism Prayer List
As a family, we are getting involved with a new church plant here in our city. Lots has been written about launching a church. I’ve already spent 5 years of my ministry life launching one. One strategy to grow the church we using: prayer. Making a prayer list Here is how we made a prayer …
3 Keys to Church Growth — Case Study
Recently, in late July, I was in Volcán Panama, teaching evangelism training workshops at the mission base of Operation Mobilization Panama. Missionaries from 6 different countries had come to Volcán Panama for two months of working with the local church. To double up the use of the time, I also had the opportunity to do …
Ten Reasons To Use Your Local Coffee Shop for Your Evangelism Small Groups
I’ve had many a conversation with church planters who want to start a coffee house church members who want to start a coffee house ministry church members who want to run a coffee shop churches who want to deal Fair Trade Coffee (such as Beyond Beans) for their gatherings. building committees that dream a coffee …
15 ways to Keep your Evangelism Passion High
Passion to be involved in personal evangelism will fade over time. How can you keep the passion high? Here are 15 strategies I use.
Closing the Back Door
Outreach’s website reports in “Coming Home – Outreach & Evangelism (link broken)” some statistics about why people leave churches and what churches can do to reach back out. Why people drop out of church The Number One reason people drop out of church is a change in life situation (almost 60%). I think of the …