My First Evangelism Experience
I remember the first time I ever intentionally focused on leading someone to Christ.
My first evangelism conversation was an amazing experience, once I got past all the mental stress I had created for myself.
How Paul Planted the Church in Corinth
The Apostle Paul planted the church in Corinth. How he did it is told in Acts 18. We can learn some church planting evangelism practices that still work today.
20 Fears about Personal Evangelism
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.
18 Common Evangelism 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 …
The fear of the E-word
In the November 2014 issue of Presbyterians Today, I share an article that gives 3 basic steps to overcome your personal fear of evangelism. Sometimes called “the e-word,” as if evangelism is an unspeakable curse word, personal evangelism is generally not a regular discipline among believers in mainline churches because of associations with pushy street …
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 …
Spiritual Thirst Opens the Conversational Door
A young man came to me one evening during the camp meal and he asks, “Do the non-elect go to hell?” I was startled. This question was out of context, out of the blue, seeming to come from left field.
The Rabbit and the Elephant Webinar
This webinar has passed. You can watch the replay and download the podcast here: Rabbit and the Elephant Webinar Replay Here is the resource page: Rabbit and the Elephant Resource Page Here is a book review: Rabbit and the Elephant Review Grab our EvangelismCoach newsletter to get future webinar announcements. A movement of house churches …
Make it easy to Build Relational Connections
As the author, I get to hear various reasons why people buy my book on church hospitality, How to Welcome Church Visitors. Why are church hospitality committees (Read: What do Church Hospitality Committees do?) looking to improve their hospitality ministry in their church by buying my book? Fear that a visitor to their church will come …
A Fearless Evangelism Class
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 . . .
Paralyzed by Silence
During January, I received a series of questions via Ask Evangelism Coach section. I’ll take a few posts to answer them. If you have a question to ask, please do so there, or on Twitter or Facebook.
Pray First then Watch
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 …
Evangelism Fear Poll Results
There was a little poll on the sidebar that you can answer with two clicks of the mouse. This first one was a really small sample of readers. These are not meant to be scientific polls by any means. Here are the results of our first one. What Hinders Your Personal Evangelism? Fear (56%, 9 …
Fear Free Evangelism Case Study
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 …
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