Here as 2012 ends and we step into 2013, a common question appearing in my search results deals with What does the church hospitality committee do? Define the goal I’ve spoken with several committees over the last few years in my coaching phone calls about their church hospitality program. A common thread in these conversations …
You'll discover some core personal evangelism habits that you can implement right away. As part of the coaching process, you'll be held accountable to putting them into practice and learn from analyzed experience
Are you starting a church hospitality ministry, or wondering how to start a hospitality ministry in church? Is your church hospitality program stuck? A few weeks ago, a church setup a Church Hospitality Coaching Session. The pastor organized one of their leadership committees that were taking on some new areas of responsibility, particularly in the …
Since the PC USA is where I hold my ordination as pastor, these statistics are of interest to me, and I know that many of the EvangelismCoach.org subscribers are in that same tribe. Source: PC(USA) – Presbyterian News Service – PC(USA) records steepest membership loss since reunion in 1983. Membership in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) …
I’ve been reading Evangelism Where You Live: Engaging Your Community and I think it is a must read book for pastors of churches seeking to engage its community. See Part I of Evangelism Where You Live – A Review Part I The authors do make progress in developing their thesis in the remainder part of …
(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 …
One of my loyal readers (via RSS feed) wrote an interesting post: Today, I had coffee with a friend of mine who said, “I don’t believe that it is my responsibility to share the gospel.” He just wanted to live his life in such a way that people would be attracted to that example and …
During January, I received a series of questions via Ask Evangelism Coach section. A series of posts this week will focus on sharing these. It’s my hope that our readers will join in the conversation. The question for today: What is the difference between Evangelism and Worship?
While at the Mt. Vernon Evangelism Dunamis, I had the opportunity to visit with some elders of the Deming Presbyterian Church in Northwest Washington State (Acme WA), with about 15-25 people in worship. Here is what one of the elders had to say [edited for spacing and readability]:
Since this personal evangelism event has passed, read here about how to get the full 5 hour seminar on Audio CD to your home. Evangelism Seminar Description: Many people find personal evangelism scary. Some would rather clean a pig sty instead of talking about Jesus to their friends. Yet Jesus commands us to go and …
This past week, I’ve had fun with some new friends in Palmer Alaska, while teaching The Evangelism Dunamis. One of the joys I get in my travels as an evangelism trainer is meeting new people all over the country. Pastors from various denominations and gifted lay ministers. At this conference, new mission outreaches were launched …
Last evening, I spent time in some personal evangelism training, coaching another person in their evangelism skills, and helping them discover an insight their personal evangelism. It was an informal evangelism training conversation, and the person felt jazzed about what he has been learning and discovering. He left prepared for the evangelism conversations he expected …
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If you haven’t done it already, what is your church’s evangelism strategy for 2008? Have you set measurable evangelism goals? I met a pastor last week who was telling me that their church will be focused on Evangelism as one of their top priorities in 2008. He has invited me to come in my role …
In some of our weekend Evangelism Training Seminars, we often build in a practical exercise in personal evangelism, a “lab time,” where people can leave the retreat setting and venture out to do evangelism in the style that we teach. It is modeled after Phillip and the Ethiopian Eunuch. The basic premise is that we ask God …
