When I was in college, I led a small group Bible study. A freshman group member had a degenerative spinal condition that caused her severe pain after excessive walking. Since she was a resident on campus without a car, walking was the only means to get to and from classes in the various buildings scattered …
This is what I hear from pastors about their personal evangelism “I don’t have time for personal evangelism.” “I’m not good at doing this evangelism thing.” “I wish I could get out of the office and actually talk with people.” “I wish I had learned this in seminary.” “I have no experience in personal evangelism, …
I found a book review on a book called Reimagining Evangelism: Inviting Friends on a Spiritual Journey. I knew that I need to put this on the reading list for me and quickly acquired it. If I was an evangelism professor at a school, this book would be required reading. No more sales pitch! Something …
Being cross cultural missionaries, I run into a clash of worldviews. Likewise, teaching in a missions institute on worldviews, I seek to offer explanations and suggest strategies to contextualize the gospel. We may not see it a lot in the US, but a common worldview I encounter when I minister in Latin America is animism. …
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 …
Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. 1 Peter 2:7 What is precious? I’ve been pondering this word in my devotions this week while looking at the current difficult circumstances of my life. Are the challenges I face now worth the price of my calling to follow my Savior? Is following Jesus worth …
Not to long ago, I spoke at a Missions Congress on Cross Cultural Missions. The event was awesome and I shared the stage with expositors from Costa Rica and Honduras. The organizers wanted me to share on the theme of “Reaching my city for Christ.” Reaching my City for Christ For two to three weeks, …
Divine Appointments can start where we are aware of the gentle prompting of the Holy Spirit to pay attention more carefully to a particular person.
A blog had a great article ( “Gospel Connections in Suburbia“) that has evangelistic conversational tips. The problem posed is How can I take a natural conversation about common things and connect it to the gospel without it coming off like an abrupt topic change? The farther the distance between the subject matter at hand …
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 …
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 . . .
This weekend, one of my friends shared with me a first hand story about an evangelistic encounter he had. I found myself encouraged as I listened to it. Here is a one who gets the idea of cooperating with the work of the Holy Spirit. I’ve retold the story here for your thoughts and for …
Today’s guest article is provided by Paul Stokes, renewal advocate for the Group for Evangelism and Renewalwithin the United Reformed Church (UK), or GEAR. I am on mission work, conducting Evangelism Training Ministry in Nicaragua working with Young Life Leadership on the Healing Ministry of Jesus. ___________________________________________________________ Is it rude to listen-in on other people’s …
Most of my evangelism training occurs in mainline churches, where many people equate evangelism with Hospitality or Service Projects. Neither one is evangelism per se (For example see, Is Neighborhood Outreach Evangelism?) But there is a marked hesitancy to discuss your faith. That could be for a variety of reasons, many of which have been talked …
I truly believe that prayer opens conversational doors. One of the principles that I put forth in my Fear Free Evangelism Seminar is that when you pray, evangelism stuff happens. Conversations appear. You don’t have to force a conversation. Conversations about faith simply show up. The challenge is then how to listen to their spiritual …
A reader recently submitted submitted a question via Ask Evangelism Coach section. (I’ve edited this for spelling an grammar). What is the best question to ask someone to start a conversation about evangelism? Thanks for submitting the question to me via Ask Evangelism Coach section of the website.
With permission, I want to share a story from a participant in one of the Fear Free Evangelism Seminars that I conduct I have edited it for details and confidentiality: I’ve been extremely busy on audits recently but it is on just such a trip to Atlanta 2 weeks ago that I was able to …
I was cleaning out my file cabinet this week (isn’t that fun?) and found some interesting items. Actually, I found a lot of stuff that I had forgotten I had, and of course, lots of useless junk that went straight to the shredder. A clipped article about Microsoft Certification from 1993? How about a marriage …
A divine appointment is recognizing God’s prompting a moment that will impact someone’s life in their jourey to faith. These are kairos moments.
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I was recently asked about the use of questions in spiritual conversations. How do you get an evangelistic conversation started?
What is the role of the Holy Spirit in personal evangelism? We know that God’s Spirit is at work in us as believers. The Holy Spirit: Renews us Regenerates us Trains us, Teaches us, and Transforms us. But, I also want to point out the role of the Holy Spirit to prepares the way for …
Evangelism can happen in the ordinary course of life. I simply make sure that I build room in my life for conversations to linger if a person wants to talk about their curiosity about their walk with the Lord.
