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.
More church invitations: Friends and Family
In the previous article in the series of giving more invitations to church, I focused on prayer. As I continue to look at various ways to increase the number of personal invitations to church that your church members give, today’s article is focused on the number of personal friends who are unchurched. Again, the statistics show …
Christmas Party Icebreaker to Start Spiritual Conversations
Here is a sample Christmas Party icebreaker and conversational guide that is similar to the one found on page 38 of Christmas Party Games from Creative Youth Ideas. You can use this icebreaker as a Christmas party game for adults, for youth, and for kids. You can probably find this party game for Christmas everywhere …
5 Great Spiritual Conversation Questions
What are some spiritual conversation questions that might lead to deep spiritual discussions in your personal evangelism? Here are 5 as written out in Organic Outreach for Ordinary People: Sharing Good News Naturally. The following is directly quoted from page 190.
Fruitless Evangelism – How to Keep Going While Waiting
No matter how much I share my faith, there are people in my life who remain apart from Christ. As an evangelist, that’s hard. Here is how I keep going.
92% of Jesus’ conversations
Darrell Davis points out how many conversations that Jesus had. Out of 132 contacts that Jesus had with people recorded in the New Testament, 6 were in the temple, 4 were in the synagogue, and 122 were out in the mainstream of life. (Adapted from Why Christians Sin, by J.K Johnson, Discovery House, 1992) As …
Evangelism Where You Live – A Review Part II
I’ve been reading Evangelism Where You Live: Engaging Your Community and I think it is a must read book for pastors of churches seeking to engage its community. See Part I of Evangelism Where You Live – A Review Part I The authors do make progress in developing their thesis in the remainder part of …
Evangelism Where You Live – A Review Part 1
The foundational focus of Evangelism Where You Live: Engaging Your Community is to present a philosophy of ministry that should work its way into the DNA of a church congregation. A way of doing ministry in which Christ followers model, encourage, and equip others to be salt and light servants where they live . . …
How to Get a First Time Church Visitor
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 …
Drifting Away from the World
In They like Jesus, but not the Church, even Dan Kimball confesses that he made the same discovery at one point– no non-Christian relationships. As I have given relational evangelism training seminars around the US and Latin America, the most common confession I hear from those who have walked with Christ for many years I …
Do you have any non-Christian Friendships?
(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 …
Developing new friendships
Bill Tenny-Brittain wrote an article entitled “The Stewardship of Friends” published in May/June 08 of NetResults.org magazine. It is excerpted from his book Hitchhiker’s Guide to Evangelism, available from Chalice Press in fall 2008. I had the chance to read Bill’s book prior to publishing and am glad to recommend this book to you. The …
Sharing Life Together: How to Start Reaching Men
Below is an article I wrote for a men’s publication, coming out later in May. Mac and Susan (*) were new neighbors that moved into our cul-de-sac. A few days after the trucks left and friends stopped dropping by, my wife and I prepared some welcome cookies (fresh baked oatmeal raisin, still warm from the …
Guest Article: Your Attitude and Relational Evangelism
Your Attitude plays a role in relational evangelism! Guest article by Jimmy Kinnaird It’s about attitude! Attitude is just about everything in relationships. In fact, it is the most important factor in establishing rapport with another person. How can you even begin to share Christ effectively if your attitude is not right? The Bible says that …
God is at work-Do you see it?
The basic premise of Reimagining Evangelism: Inviting Friends on a Spiritual Journey is that God is at work already in the lives of pre-Christians, and our job in evangelism is to participate in that work. The author uses the metaphor of being part of a “detective agency” to explain personal evangelism.