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Review of Beyond Belief by Patrick McElroy

February 17, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

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.”

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How to Make and Use Church Name Tags

May 1, 2019 by EvangelismCoach

For churches that have considered and want to implement using name tags, today’s post gives you some thoughts about how to make and use name tags in church. 1.  Preprint church name tags for your regular attendees One church set up two large registration areas. One has pre-printed tags for regular attendees and blank name …

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They like Jesus, But Not the Church, Dan Kimbals Book

They Like Jesus But Not The Church – A Review

February 14, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

I recently picked up and reread my copy of They like Jesus, but not the Church by Dan Kimball, in reaction to a post I read this week at the Christian Manifesto. Kimball gears his book at those who want to get out of the Christian subculture and actually engage people in spiritual conversation. Most of …

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Rabbit and the Elephant Book Review

The Rabbit and the Elephant Review

December 5, 2017 by EvangelismCoach

Today, I’m participating in a blog book tour for The Rabbit and the Elephant: Why Small Is the New Big for Today’s Church Tony and Felicity Dale. Others have published their entry ahead of me (see below), and a few others will follow behind. The Rabbit and the Elephant A movement of house churches is …

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The Rabbit and the Elephant Webinar

July 1, 2016 by EvangelismCoach

This webinar has passed. You can watch the replay and download the podcast here: Rabbit and the Elephant Webinar Replay Here is the resource page: Rabbit and the Elephant Resource Page Here is a book review: Rabbit and the Elephant Review Grab our EvangelismCoach newsletter to get future webinar announcements. A movement of house churches …

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Make it easy to Build Relational Connections

May 1, 2019 by EvangelismCoach

As the author, I get to hear various reasons why people buy my book on church hospitality, How to Welcome Church Visitors. Why are church hospitality committees (Read: What do Church Hospitality Committees do?) looking to improve their hospitality ministry in their church by buying my book? Fear that a visitor to their church will come …

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Beating Dunbars Number

June 9, 2016 by EvangelismCoach

Several years ago, I was challenged as a youth pastor to give my leadership away  — delegate, delegate, and delegate. The challenger warned me that I could only reach so many people, but if I delegated and empowered, I could lead larger ministries with longer reaches and greater sustainability. The challenger mentioned that my personal …

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Mothers Day 2009 Outreach Ideas

May 1, 2019 by EvangelismCoach

Mother’s Day 2009 may be a time to conduct special weekend event outreaches. I know several pastors that will give a sermon related to motherhood. But it’s also an opportunity for churches to engage their neighborhood. Some links have since broken.

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How to Welcome Church Visitors Ebok

Church Hospitality Webinar Slides Only and Related Resources

January 27, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

We had a great webinar this afternoon. Registrations from 10 different countries, covering 31 different states and churches from a wide variety of denominations and traditions. Perhaps you’re wondering How to improve your first impressions ministry for first time church visitors What to say to a first time visitor. How to train church greeters. Do …

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Church Planters Checklist

20 Must Dos Before Launching A Church

May 13, 2015 by EvangelismCoach

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 …

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Community Evangelism Webinar Resource Page

December 3, 2017 by EvangelismCoach

I’ve been reading Evangelism Where You Live: Engaging Your Community and I think it is a must read book for pastors of struggling churches. It’s a book that is based out of years of practical experience, and has much to say to how a church should engage it’s community. How does your church connect with the community? …

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Statistics on spirituality of twentysomethings

February 14, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

For youth pastors, young adult pastors, and others who work with this group, this research gives current insight based on survey data.  Lifeway has published a podcast with it, found at Stetzer’s article. From Ed Stetzer’s research: In fact, 73 percent of unchurched twentysomethings consider themselves “spiritual” and would like to know more about “God …

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Two Guys walking, Talking about Jesus

Evangelism Where You Live

August 1, 2021 by EvangelismCoach

A way of doing ministry in which Christ followers model, encourage, and equip others to be salt and light servants where they live

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Church Building Gamboa Panama

Church-Based Relational Evangelism

August 1, 2021 by EvangelismCoach

Why is there no noticeable change even after all time and effort to do training and provide resources?

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A Fearless Evangelism Class

January 27, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

For the next few weeks, I’m teaching in a Spanish language missions school, particularly on cross cultural conversational evangelism. Two of the opening questions I often ask are: When I think about evangelism, I feel. . .. When “evangelism” is mentioned, I begin to think . . .

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How to Get a First Time Church Visitor

January 27, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

The short answer: Personal Invitation from a Trusted friend. Charles Arn has surveyed thousands of people: (Source: 3 Questions for Charles Arn) In your research, have you found that there’s one specific reason that visitors come to church? The friendship factor. We’ve asked more than 50,000 people over the last 10 years why they came …

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PrayerWalking Webinar Resources Podcast Replay

April 26, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

Preparing a community outreach for your church this coming spring / summer? How can you spiritually prepare yourself and the community for your outreach? You are probably thinking: Planning meetings. Publicity Hoping for good weather. . .:) Don’t forget prayer for community outreach. Prayer is the key to preparing yourself and the community for your …

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God’s Plan for Sharing — A Church Vision for Outreach

October 30, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

The North American Mission Board is developing a new evangelism initiative to fulfill their 2020 vision of “Every Believer Sharing, Every Person Hearing.” “God’s Plan for Sharing” is meant to encourage Christians to prayerfully and thoughtfully engage in the most effective approach for making Christ known. GPS lays out four biblical mileposts to lead your …

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Hitchhikers Guide to Evangelism Webinar Follow Up

June 9, 2016 by EvangelismCoach

Listen to the Hitchhikers Guide to Evangelism replay here. In this FREE online webinar, author and church growth consultant Bill Tenny-Brittian of 21st Century Strategies Inc will share practical steps to Overcome your fear of messing up. Find confidence to explain the value of your faith. Talk about your faith journey, walk, or conversion experience …

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10 Most Important Minutes to A Church VIsitor

10 Most Important Minutes to Church Visitors

March 15, 2020 by EvangelismCoach

Church growth books on first impressions often stress the first 7 minutes of a visitor’s experience. But this surprise result indicates that the something else is more important than first impressions. Charles Arn has surveyed thousands of people: (Source: 3 Questions for Charles Arn) We also asked the focus groups when they decided that the church …

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Do you have any non-Christian Friendships?

November 5, 2017 by EvangelismCoach

(HT: Image pslim) “I have no non-Christian relationships” confessed one of my evangelism coaching clients (shared with permission). “I was taking an inventory of my personal relationships and discovered that I had surrounded myself entirely with Christians.” In the Christian Cocoon This is a common description of many Christians who have been walking with the …

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Guest Article: Church Hospitality Training

May 1, 2019 by EvangelismCoach

This was submitted by one of our readers and permission granted to be distributed by EvangelismCoach.org.  The writer wishes to remain anonymous.  Some slight editing for on-line reading have been made. The writer gave this as part of their Hospitality training to their welcoming ministries team in a mid-size congregation, so some may be worded …

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Turnaround and Beyond

5 Phases of Church Renewal

June 9, 2016 by EvangelismCoach

As I continued to read through Ron Crandall’s book, he gives a list of principles for church renewal and revitalization from the ages of church history.  It may seem like a no-brainer, but at least observations through church history back it up. 1.  Personal renewal. Renewal of a church begins with renewal of the individual.  …

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Turnaround and Beyond

Theories of Church Transformation

June 9, 2016 by EvangelismCoach

This week and next, you’ll be reading about small church transformation, particularly the role of evangelism, based on a study of small churches first done in 1995 and then updated in December of 2008.  These first few posts setup some of the background and are meant to be in small blog-size portions for easy consumption. …

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