Can we invite non-believers to church? The book of Acts offers examples of gatherings that included both believers and seekers. Let’s look at what Scripture shows about these assemblies and how we can welcome those exploring faith without compromising our mission.
With such diversity in stories, means, gospel versions and responses to the gospel, how do you do personal evangelism training in a local church?
When we meet someone, how long should it take to share the gospel with them?
There is a time and place for evangelism, but can it happen way too soon?
Your spiritual journey to Jesus Christ happens in discernable stages.
The work of the evangelist is detecting the current phase of the journey and pointing to a next step.
Have you seen an evangelistic moment (a potential divine appointment) develop suddenly in a conversation and found yourself not yet ready to share the gospel?
Learn two tips from Philip (Acts 8) to be ready
Looking back over the last 10 days, how many conversations about your faith have happened?
If you want more, what is one action you can start to generate more?
When I do personal evangelism workshops, I hear all about different fears that people have. I list 20 different evangelism fears that I encounter and offer a resource to help you overcome those fears.
Many books on personal evangelism tell stories of personal fear of evangelism. Evangelism is scary for many, for a variety of reasons? Why does one have to be brave? Here is a list that I have compiled over the years of teaching workshops and seminars and the most common responses that I get to the …
We always want to be prepared to explain our faith.
We get better at it as we mature in Christ.
God's sovereignty is not an excuse to avoid evangelism, nor to be sloppy in our presentation.
If you need a short kickstart in personal evangelism today, 10 Quick Personal Evangelism Tips. Allow at least one to capture your attention today as you pray for an opportunity to share Christ with a friend.
Having read a steady diet of popular church growth books, Dan Dunn’s Offer Them Life: A Life-Based Evangelistic Vision is different academic challenge. It is not a book to consume in one sitting, but a great book for those who want to think deeply on the biblical theme of Life. I love Dan’s passion for …
Having Church Visitor Reception AFTER a service in a small church can make the difference between a visitor who returns, and one who doesn't.
Fourteen months ago, my friend and I first got acquainted. We have spent much time together during those 14 months getting to know one another. When I first mentioned that I was a follower of Christ, the defensive wall went up. He didn’t want to talk about spiritual things. But as I continue to mention …
I am a big advocate of evangelism as a lifestyle. When I read the book the Acts, I see how evangelism played out in the life of the apostles and early believers. They spent time with people. They shared their faith, and the “Lord added daily” to their numbers. How can a believer experience a …
Looking back over the past year, some particular blog posts rose to the top for 2013. Please consider sharing this post, or some of these with other believers in your network. In this post you’ll see some of the most popular posts of 2013 in
I’ve been the first time visitor to churches during the Christmas season. I have been the first time visitor to a Christmas Eve service where I didn’t ever want to go back. On the other hand, I visited a church on Christmas Eve and was so impressed I wanted to invite friend the following week. …
Does your devotional life seem a little dull and routine?
Fix that by making sure you get involved in sharing your faith with people on a regular basis.
As you talk about your own relationship with Christ with spiritually thirsty people, you will re-discover an element of joy.
The Great Commission calls each of us to “Go and make disciples.” Your lifestyle plays a part in that process. Eventually, you’ll need to talk about your faith in Christ and share the gospel, but your lifestyle and your character will play a role in your witness. What areas of your character significantly impact another …
It’s not unusual for me to hear people talk about evangelism as a spiritual gift. I’ve done so myself. Because I love to teach on personal evangelism and help others to share their faith, people sometimes say that I have the gift of evangelism. Barna released some research saying, “Among the interesting facets of the …
Church hospitality is not evangelism. Your welcome ministry has a supporting role in the work of making disciples, but it is not evangelism.
A mainstay of my personal evangelism habits when I first came to Christ was the “big event” meeting. Marketed as free, a performer or speaker would speak on a good topic about life, but then switch it to Jesus towards the end. The music would start. The altar call process would begin for those who would …
Do you understand that evangelism has changed? Popular approaches you may have grown up with were great for their time, but new approaches to the unchanging gospel are necessary. Last week, James White sent out this post, and it’s republished here with permission. Vol. 9, No. 10 The Seismic Shift in Outreach There has been …
I volunteered the other day and I had lunch with another volunteer. As we talked about my mother’s recent death, she startled me with the following question. I’ve always wondered, how do religious people deal with death? She wasn’t opposed to religion. She didn’t have a defined set of beliefs of her own. Spiritual Conversations occur …
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 …
