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 …
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 …
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 …
In my workshops on personal evangelism, one core teaching is the understanding the person’s journey to faith. Becoming a Christian is not an “on/off” proposition. I recently taught a workshop on door to door evangelism, where people wanted to know how to turn on that switch to help a person be a Christian after a …
Steven Furtick blogs about not putting unnecessary burdens on ourselves while sharing the gospel. He calls it “Your 50%”. Essentially, Furtick calls us to remember that We are called to bear witness to our faith. God is responsible for calling people to respond in faith. The proclamation of the gospel message through word and deed …
I once gave a talk to children at a Bible Camp in Panama. Outside of the covered patio we used as a lecture hall, mango trees were getting heavy with fruit. The mangoes were almost in season. I had picked one bruised and green mango that had fallen on the ground. Turning it over in …
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 …
Pastor Valcarcel’s short little book is his personal testimony of how he came to faith in Jesus and some of the life transformation since that encounter. It’s a very short read at only 56 pages, but it tells a very powerful story of his life. He self-published it in hopes of getting the story out. …
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.
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 …
Sometimes conversions are just unbelievable. They “fall from heaven” so to speak. There is no evangelist, no gospel presentation, no explanation of the law, it just happens – God does all the work. While not the norm, it can happen. God is sovereign enough to make it happen. For example, the apostle Paul’s conversion – …
