Your journey to faith in Jesus Christ was not a microwave one minute experience. You were prepared by the Holy Spirit ahead of time. Telling your story of your journey to faith is one of the most important stories you can tell. Read on for ideas and a free download.
Christianity Today recently released an article you may have seen, Fox News’ Highly Reluctant Jesus Follower. It’s a worthy article to read Kirsten Powers’ first hand personal testimony of how she became a follower of Jesus. It is getting a lot of airplay at the moment (I must have seen it 30 times already in …
Is it possible to be too focused on the outcomes of evangelism? It can be when evangelism is taught as a sales technique to get a sinner’s prayer. It can be when evangelism training is reduced to a set of step by step skills that are equivalent to sales techniques. Ask leading questions. Minimize …
Personal evangelism in the context of relationship happens in my life.
Here is a story of a relationship I invested in, and how it created a context for personal evangelism.
In this brief video from The Exchange, Ed Stetzer interviews Robert Coleman during Exponential and this highlight was shared. Dr. Coleman wrote the classic The Master Plan of Evangelism and was at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School when I was there. Unfortunately, I never had a class with him (it didn’t fit my schedule), but my evangelism classes …
Many evangelists feel the urgency to share their faith. Urgency is what propels them to Find a conversational opening to start a faith sharing conversation Gather at 7pm to go witnessing or soul winning at the bus station. Go to the public square and proclaim Christ. Start conversations with strangers. The urgency of evangelism propels …
The church we are involved with intentional reaching out to people who don’t know Christ. We love to help people our their journey to faith in Christ. But, sometimes it gets awkward. We have gotten use to how Christians should think, dress, speak, live and behave. Over the years, we get insulated with a new …
Have you ever considered that simply inviting someone to church could be all it takes for Jesus to take hold of them and change their life? All you have to do is ask them to come! It seems too simple, doesn’t it?
Jesus also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in …
Part of our task is to take the word of God and scatter it in the field.
I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 1 Cor 3:6-7 (NIV) Paul gives us a great analogy to talk about the conversion process. It picks up on some of the parables …
Check out this list of how members of one of my classes came to faith in Christ. “When I was 8 years old, I was invited to a bible camp for kids.” “My father helped me see my need for Jesus and I put my trust in Him.” “A friend invited me to church, and …
I recently read the story of Naaman’s conversion that from 2 Kings chapter 5. The text itself is not about evangelism or evangelism practices. But in this short little story from 2 Kings 5, we can seven evangelism principles at work.
Last night, I watched a deeply powerful film. Faith Like Potatoes
I recently watched a visual parable that demonstrates the role of the Holy Spirit in Evangelism. It’s the film: Flywheel. The story follows the awakening faith of the central character, a used car salesman. Along the way, you see moments that when tied together cause a crisis of faith, which leads the man to offer …
One of the questions that I have received frequently via “Ask Evangelism Coach” has been on the role of the Holy Spirit in Evangelism. That as a topic is broad, so I’ll begin a series of posts on that topic. Here is an older post I wrote: Role Of The Holy Spirit In Evangelism that …
I had a chance to share the gospel because I explained prayer to someone who doesn’t know how to pray or what a prayer burden is.
