4 Reasons Relational Evangelism Works
Why is relational evangelism the most effective form of personal evangelism?
These 4 reasons suggest why relational evangelism works
20 Fears about Personal Evangelism
When I do personal evangelism workshops, I hear all about different fears that people have. I list 20 different evangelism fears that I encounter and offer a resource to help you overcome those fears.
How to Mess Up a Christmas Party with Evangelism
Have you ever been “sandbagged” at a party where the organizer had a hidden agenda? To sandbag your Christmas party guests is to unexpectedly thrust your guests into a socially awkward or highly uncomfortable situation where they are unable to escape, metaphorically speaking.
Fruitless Evangelism – How to Keep Going While Waiting
No matter how much I share my faith, there are people in my life who remain apart from Christ. As an evangelist, that’s hard. Here is how I keep going.
Personal Evangelism Mistake #4
Today’s Guest post is “Top 10 Evangelism Mistakes, Number Four” from Shawn Anderson’s Living Dangerously blog (no longer online).
Review of Beyond Belief by Patrick McElroy
Beyond Belief by Patrick McElroy is subtitled Live a Consistent, Spiritually Powerful life. From the back cover: “a book about breaking free from a spiritually weak life to achieve the consistently powerful one that is available to every believer. It’s a Bible Study 101 that guides reader to a greater revelation of God.”
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 …
Divine Appointments Start with Noticing People
Divine Appointments can start where we are aware of the gentle prompting of the Holy Spirit to pay attention more carefully to a particular person.
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 …
Do you have any non-Christian Friendships?
(HT: Image pslim) “I have no non-Christian relationships” confessed one of my evangelism coaching clients (shared with permission). “I was taking an inventory of my personal relationships and discovered that I had surrounded myself entirely with Christians.” In the Christian Cocoon This is a common description of many Christians who have been walking with the …
Ten Prayer Points For your Friends
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.
Guest Article: Your Attitude and Relational Evangelism
Your Attitude plays a role in relational evangelism! Guest article by Jimmy Kinnaird It’s about attitude! Attitude is just about everything in relationships. In fact, it is the most important factor in establishing rapport with another person. How can you even begin to share Christ effectively if your attitude is not right? The Bible says that …
Prayer and Evangelism
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 …