Prayer invites the work of God in evangelism and church growth.
Leading your church to pray for their personal evangelism efforts may not be as easy as you think. I have found that people bring their own agendas to the prayer meeting. It can become easy for the prayer meeting to be hi-jacked. Let me offer to you a simple prayer outline for …
Preparing a community outreach for your church this coming spring / summer? How can you spiritually prepare yourself and the community for your outreach? You are probably thinking: Planning meetings. Publicity Hoping for good weather. . .:) Don’t forget prayer for community outreach. Prayer is the key to preparing yourself and the community for your …
Church growth books on first impressions often stress the first 7 minutes of a visitor’s experience. But this surprise result indicates that the something else is more important than first impressions. Charles Arn has surveyed thousands of people: (Source: 3 Questions for Charles Arn) We also asked the focus groups when they decided that the church …
During January, I received a series of questions via Ask Evangelism Coach section. A series of posts this week will focus on sharing these. It’s my hope that our readers will join in the conversation. The question for today: What is the difference between Evangelism and Worship?
As mentioned in the last post on Evangelism Prayer List, our family is participating in planting a new multi-national church in our city. I am not the lead pastor as the focus on our ministry is evangelism training in the Americas. When I lived in Richmond, I participated in an international church plant with a …
As a family, we are getting involved with a new church plant here in our city. Lots has been written about launching a church. I’ve already spent 5 years of my ministry life launching one. One strategy to grow the church we using: prayer. Making a prayer list Here is how we made a prayer …
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 …
At the Transformational Pastor’s Gathering this week, I led a breakout discussion on experiencing your community. One way to experience your community and discern it’s needs is to prayer walk. A few asked me for some resources about prayer walking. Some thought the term referred to walking the Labyrinth as an exercise in personal spirituality, …
Here are a 10 practical tips on personal evangelism. Each of these links will take you to further explanations and articles on these items.
Do you want guidance on how to pray for your lost friends? Here are 10 prayer points for your friends who don't yet know Jesus.
The Lausanne Committee for World Evangelism issued a report from their 2004 gathering on the work of prayer and evangelism. It is a 52 page downloadable PDF direct from the Lausanne website. Here is the table of contents: Introduction Theology and motivation of prayer in evangelism Principles and guidelines of prayer in evangelism Spiritual warfare …
I just finished reading Nick Pollard’s Evangelism Made Slightly Less Difficult: How to Interest People who Aren’t Already Interested (order your copy direct from Amazon). Nick is a full time evangelist and speaker who lives in Great Britain. With cover endorsements from Josh McDowell, George Verwer, and Lesslie Newbigin, I figured it would be a …
Some time ago, I came across an outline of some hints about prayer walking. This prayer walking outline mixes prayer, with walking a neighborhood, and inviting God to transform that place and the people who live there. 16 Prayer Walking Tips Here are some ways you can do prayer walking (Adapted from Follow Me: Becoming …
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.
Passion to be involved in personal evangelism will fade over time. How can you keep the passion high? Here are 15 strategies I use.
How can you pray for the work of evangelism? Praying for yourself: Jimmy Kinnaird has developed a useful prayer acrostic called “BOLDNESS” to help you prayerfully prepare yourself. This is an awesome acronym and a helpful structure. Here are some things I pray for: To live a consistent and holy attractive life. To be authentic …
In an article I read at Mark Robert’s blog on missional living, there is the following: Q: “Even though you talk about ‘just being honest,’ I’m still not comfortable with the idea of sharing my faith with others. What would you suggest to help me get started?” He answered: Years ago someone admitted to me: …
We have moved our family and now live in a city of 1.8 million people. We reside in an 14 story condo building, living in one of 26 condos. We don’t have a car, so we rely on taxis, buses, and our feet to get around. When Nehemiah left Susa for another city in another …
I've learned to take the risk and offer to pray with people when they make small talk about some crisis the story of the life.
That crisis often brings out the spiritual thirst a person has.
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.
