Divine Appointment: Mis-dialed Phone Number
You can learn to recognize divine appointments when you learn to obey the nudge of the Holy Spirit and listen for spiritual thirst
Evangelism Styles and Your Personality
Recently, a question has been spinning in my mind:
“How do I share my faith without being obnoxious?”
Maybe that is your question too.
Knowing these 6 styles of personal evangelism can help you overcome your shyness or evangelism fears.
4 Reasons Relational Evangelism Works
Why is relational evangelism the most effective form of personal evangelism?
These 4 reasons suggest why relational evangelism works
13 Questions to Evaluate Your Personal Evangelism
Evaluate yourself when it comes to personal evangelism. Here are 13 reflection questions to help you examine your heart.
How to Live The Lifestyle Evangelism of the Early Disciples
Critics complain that lifestyle evangelism is not biblical. But I can clearly see evangelism as a lifestyle in the actions of the early disciples in the book of Acts. Acts 5:42 describes a lifestyle of evangelism in the early days of the church: Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, …
7 Observations from Fox News’ Kirsten Powers’ Testimony
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 …
Book Review: Living Dangerously, Shawn Anderson
The Great Commission calls each of us to “Go and make disciples.” Your lifestyle plays a part in that process. Eventually, you’ll need to talk about your faith in Christ and share the gospel, but your lifestyle and your character will play a role in your witness. What areas of your character significantly impact another …
Personal Evangelism in the Course of Life
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.
A Comparison of 3 Evangelism Methods
A brief look at three different evangelism methods that are popular
Is relational evangelism biblical?
Is relational evangelism a biblical method of doing evangelism?
Some critics of relational evangelism claim that there is no biblical evidence for a relational evangelism approach.
Let me address the biblical aspect of evangelism through relationships.
What is relational evangelism?
There are many different personal evangelism methods being taught these days in the body of Christ. In part, these different evangelism methods are an outgrowth of different strengths, personalities, personal preferences and diversity in the body of Christ. Evangelism trainers like myself have found these different ways to help nervous people grow more comfortable in sharing their faith with others.
Book Review:Eats with Sinners
I’ve been in the Church for so long that deep friendships with people apart from Christ have been neglected. I’ve filled my day with work, managing the lives of my children, administrative and planning for the local church, and running an international ministry. Recently, I’ve been having a season of reading and re-reading a bunch …
Fear Free Evangelism Course Released
Can Evangelism be as Normal as Breathing? Don’t you wish that just thinking about doing evangelism didn’t raise the hair on the back of your neck? Can you overcome that paralyzing fear that keeps you from joyfully sharing what God has done for you? Does evangelism feel like a dreaded chore that you find easy …
Personal Evangelism for the 21st Century
After the miraculous catch of fish (in Luke’s order), Jesus Says to Peter and Andrew, James and John: I will make you fishers of men. I listened to Andy Stanley’s podcast last week where he said: “Followers are Fishers.” This got me to thinking about how do we do personal evangelism in the 21st century …
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 …
Who Do You Know That is Unchurched
A great exercise for personal evangelism is take an inventory of your local friends who do not attend a church.
Add them to your list of prayer for your friends to come to faith in Jesus Christ.
10 Ideas to Personally Reach Out To Your Neighborhood
When I lived in the suburbs of Richmond VA I experienced the lack of a sense of community in our neighborhood. We had all bought nice houses, but with the exception of one family, we didn’t know any of the neighbors. What a contrast to our former subdivision where we knew everyone on the cul-de-sac, …
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 …
Personal Evangelism Coaching Group
Yesterday, I met with fellow blogger Jimmy Kinnaird here in Atlanta to discuss personal evangelism. We had a great meeting at Starbucks, and it was awesome putting a real face on a real person that I first met because of our blogging interest on personal evangelism. An idea we kicked around is about an evangelism …