Today’s Guest article comes via Stanley Ott, director of Vital Churches Institute. Stan has a program called the Acts 16:5 Initiative, and I am familiar with several presbyteries that are going through this process with their churches. I consider Stan a friend, and heard him give this talk last November. Visit Vital Churches Institute and …
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 …
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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.
Are you praying for revival in your country? If you want some thematic reminders for revival prayer, here you go
What follows is a recommendation list of books that I have used and taught from on Personal evangelism. You are free to duplicate this list, provided credit to EvangelismCoach.org is maintained. On-line duplication permitted with a link back to this page. Thanks. 2009 Book List on Personal Evangelism Questioning Evangelism, Randy Newman They like Jesus, …
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 …
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? …
A way of doing ministry in which Christ followers model, encourage, and equip others to be salt and light servants where they live
Why is there no noticeable change even after all time and effort to do training and provide resources?
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 . . .
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 …
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 …
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 …
(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 …
“How can skillful pastors who long for the resurrection power of God to be manifest in their churches learn to patiently guide a congregation through all the necessary stages of change involved in a turn around?” Ron Crandall – Turnaround Churches and Beyond
Ron Crandall describes two characterics of what successful turnaround and transformational churches have.
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. …
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. …
The first edition of Turnaround and Beyond: A Hopeful Future for the Small Membership Church was released in 1995 and was re-released and updated in December 2008. In the study Ron sought to explore strategies that enabled struggling and often run down small churches to experience lasting turnaround. “Turnaround” has gone by various terms in …
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?
As mentioned in the last post on Evangelism Prayer List, our family is participating in planting a new multi-national church in our city. I am not the lead pastor as the focus on our ministry is evangelism training in the Americas. When I lived in Richmond, I participated in an international church plant with a …
As a family, we are getting involved with a new church plant here in our city. Lots has been written about launching a church. I’ve already spent 5 years of my ministry life launching one. One strategy to grow the church we using: prayer. Making a prayer list Here is how we made a prayer …
