8 Steps to Use Your Personal Testimony
Each Christian has a personal story of how he/she came to know Jesus in a personal, life-changing way.
Check out these 8 steps to develop use your personal testimony.
Top 3 Mistakes of Personal Evangelism?
Evangelism is cooperating with the work of the Holy Spirit to share the good news to those who are ready to listen.
Even so, we are prone to making evangelism mistakes. Do you avoid any of these evangelism mistakes?
Evangelism Tip: What’s behind the question?
For a conversational evangelism tip, here is one I use on a frequent basis: I look for the question that is behind the question, emotion, or statement.
Faith Story Number 1: What’s New Story
The What's New Story is one of the four Stories every Christian should know in personal evangelism
Overcome Your Evangelism Fears: “I don’t know what to say”
People have all sorts of fears when it comes to personal evangelism.
At the top of th list in my anecdotal research is this one:
I don’t know what to say.
How I Handle “Jesus was a Good Teacher”
I have a friend who doesn’t believe in having a personal relationship God, but does believe that Jesus was a good teacher. My friend, like many people who are not followers of Jesus, hold this view: Jesus was a good teacher. His principles are worth following. He taught was other religions taught. He was a …
Obnoxious Habits in Personal Evangelism – Aggressive Pitches
A freaky thing happened to me today that reminds me of an obnoxious habit in personal evangelism. I got a phone call today. Would I be interested in the caller showing me how to make $3500 a day?
10 ways to kickstart your Personal Evangelism this Summer
Check out this list of ways to Jump Start your personal evangelism this summer
Book Review: God Behaving Badly
Ever been stumped by: The God of the Old Testament is of wrath, and the God of the New Testament is Love. How could God kill two ministers protecting the ark of the covenant. If God doesn’t change, how does he “relent”? I was on a bus coming down a Nicaragua mountain after a camp …
How do you talk to a . . . .
Imagine you are at a dinner party one night. Someone shifts the conversation and drops a bomb like this one: Who are we to say Christianity is any better than any other religion? I think the essence of Jesus’ teaching is love, the same as all religions. It’s not our job to tell other people …
2 Reactions to Spiritual Thirst
I was not hostile to Jesus, just indifferent. Before I met Jesus personally, I didn't know much about Him. I was not hostile to Him. I was not opposed to him. I was pretty indifferent. My spiritual thrist was indifference
That's because our family only attended church on Christmas Eve and Easter.
I tried to put the facts together every now and then, but the reality is, I had no clue.
I was not hostile to faith. I was just indifferent.
That was my level of spiritual thirst.
Obnoxious Habits in Personal Evangelism – The out of place transition
In my early zeal, I used to seize any opportunity to steer a conversation to Jesus. My forced transitions were obnoxious. I've learned to do this instead
30 Days of Prayer: Day 22 – Tell of His Love
My faith has found a resting place, Not in device nor creed; I trust the Ever-living One, His wounds for me shall plead. I need no other argument, I need no other plea; It is enough that Jesus died, And that He died for me. — Hymn, My Faith has found a resting place …
MP3: 4 Growth Steps in Personal Evangelism
Where can I start in my growth in personal evangelism? What if I’m too scared to talk with strangers? Or better yet, where can I start? In this 60 minute recording on personal evangelism you will learn: How church invitations are part of evangelism How to discover and share your own journey to faith What …
Small Talk Questions for Church Greeters
Consider these small talk questions as icebreakers your church greeters, ushers or volunteers could use to open the doors to a potentially deeper conversation and connection with your first-time church visitor.
7 Detours in Evangelistic Conversation
In a recent Outreach Magazine article (Nov/Dec 2012), Larry Osborne put together a list of 7 detours in evangelistic conversations. Detours are conversational rabbit trails that are deflect significant evangelistic conversation elsewhere, rather than at the true spiritual need of others. We often step into those rabbit trails, thinking that we might have to: defend …
Appropriate Silence in Personal Witnessing
I’ve got a few friends who have always been hostile to talking about faith. Their level of spiritual thirst has been low. In fact, it’s downright hostile. We remain friends, but talking about Jesus provokes emotional hostility or an evasive awkward silence.
Tim Keller’s 10 Personal Evangelism Tips
Let people around you know you are a Christian (in a natural, unforced way) Ask friends about their faith – and just listen! Listen to your friends problems – maybe offer to pray for them Share your problems with others – testify to how your faith helps you Give them a book to read Share …
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 …
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Contact Evangelism Gone Wild
As I mentioned in my previous post on contact evangelism as a evangelism method, I share my thoughts on how to train people and evangelists who are scared of this methodology. How do I help such people improve their personal evangelism skills? By far, when I ask people about their evangelism fears at personal evangelism training …
10 Practical Evangelism Tips for Pastors
I get to talk alot with pastors at conferences I give or attend, and often on the telephone as well about some of their challenges with personal evangelism. As mentioned in the last post, this is what I hear from pastors about their personal evangelism “I don’t have time for personal evangelism.” “I’m not good …
Novel Evangelism: Build Bridges through Books
Evangelism Conversations through Popular Novels, or Novel Evangelism. Its an evangelistic bridge building strategy to help the believers in your church recognize and participate in more conversational opportunities about people’s spiritual journey. I’m familiar with using the same ideas in popular music, and movies, so the idea isn’t new. Listen to my friend Bill Feree talk …
Personal Evangelism for the 21st Century
After the miraculous catch of fish (in Luke’s order), Jesus Says to Peter and Andrew, James and John: I will make you fishers of men. I listened to Andy Stanley’s podcast last week where he said: “Followers are Fishers.” This got me to thinking about how do we do personal evangelism in the 21st century …
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6 Ways to Mess Up Witnessing to Strangers
At the bus stop where I was wasting time, a friendly evangelist took the time to talk with strangers, a form of evangelism often called contact evangelism. I watched and observed and wondered — would I like to be talked to in this manner? How to destroy the moment. I admire the woman for taking …