5 Growth Lessons from Church Planting
5 Lessons I learned about church planting from planting two churches.
Update your Church Website for Your Christmas Visitors
Many people check out a church’s website or Facebook page prior to visiting your church at Christmas. If you are having special events at Christmas to attract new church visitors, ask yourself these questions while at your church website: What time is your Christmas Eve Service? What should I expect on Christmas Eve? Is there …
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 …
Beating Dunbars Number
Several years ago, I was challenged as a youth pastor to give my leadership away — delegate, delegate, and delegate. The challenger warned me that I could only reach so many people, but if I delegated and empowered, I could lead larger ministries with longer reaches and greater sustainability. The challenger mentioned that my personal …
Evangelism Where You Live
A way of doing ministry in which Christ followers model, encourage, and equip others to be salt and light servants where they live
Church-Based Relational Evangelism
Why is there no noticeable change even after all time and effort to do training and provide resources?
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 …
God’s Plan for Sharing — A Church Vision for Outreach
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 …
Theories of Church Transformation
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. …
Small Church Transformation
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 …
Evangelism Training in the Local Church
Evangelism Training in the local church helps believers to better share their faith