You want me to explain the gospel?
A default setting is one that we have so mastered, that it is second nature to use it.
A default setting enables us to explain a few points of the gospel clearly when its appropriate.
6 Week Evangelism Small Group Guide
A six week evangelism study small group to hold each other accountable in personal evangelism to increase the number of conversations. If you want a group that doesn't simply study evangelism, but does it, here is a one approach
30 Days of Prayer: Day 22 – Tell of His Love
My faith has found a resting place, Not in device nor creed; I trust the Ever-living One, His wounds for me shall plead. I need no other argument, I need no other plea; It is enough that Jesus died, And that He died for me. — Hymn, My Faith has found a resting place …
Book Review: Done – What most religions don’t tell you about the Bible
Cary Schmidt has written a useful introduction to the gospel: Done.: What most religions don’t tell you about the Bible. Its chapters cover the basic gospel script of Do Vs. Done as the framework for a simple explanation of the gospel that allows someone who is considering Christianity to examine the biblical evidence and reasoning …
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.”
Evangelism Where You Live – A Review Part III
I’ve been reading Evangelism Where You Live: Engaging Your Community and I think it is a must read book for pastors of churches seeking to engage its community. See Part I of Evangelism Where You Live – A Review Part I See Part II of Evangelism Where You Live – A Review Part II This …
Evangelism Where You Live – A Review Part 1
The foundational focus of Evangelism Where You Live: Engaging Your Community is to present a philosophy of ministry that should work its way into the DNA of a church congregation. 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
I’ve been reading Evangelism Where You Live: Engaging Your Community and I think it is a must read book for pastors of churches seeking to engage its community. Over the next few days leading up to the Community Based Servant Evangelism Webinar, I’ll be pulling out a few themes. What’s not working? The authors ask: …
For Greeters: What to say to A Church Visitor
let me share some possible starting scripts that you can use yourself, or develop more fully into a resource you can use at your church.
10 practical ways of sharing your faith
Here are a 10 practical tips on personal evangelism. Each of these links will take you to further explanations and articles on these items.
Scripted Evangelism Conversations
I remember a model of evangelism that felt like a sales pitch. I would attend a seminar and learn the newest script for evangelism. The idea is that I would learn a series of conversational steps that would help people See their need for Jesus Make a decision to follow Christ Repeat a prayer after …
Gospel Script: FAITH
In doing research for this series on gospel scripts, I found another outline called FAITH. It seems pretty good and could be a simple tool to share your faith. Scripts are not automatic The purpose of a script is to provide you an outline to share your faith when the Lord provides the opportunity. You …
Do versus Done
"Do versus Done" is very simple gospel presentation to think through, and gets at one aspect of the gospel message.
Using Gospel Scripts
The key to using gospel scripts is to know ONE "inside out"so that your explanation is crystal clear. The idea is that you can use it at any given moment, or as they say, you can "do it in your sleep" (a phrase meaning that you can explain the script without having to think too hard because you are so familiar with it). Once you are deeply familiar with one, then add another one to your skill set.
Another Church Business Card Evangelism Idea
I have a friend who gave me his personal business card. On the back, however, was a brief little gospel script. This might be a useful idea for a person to give away, and makes for a little conversational piece. Of course, the script is not complete. It doesn’t explain everything that is contained in …
Two Challenges to Gospel Presentations (Scripts)
As evangelists, we need a “Default setting.” A default setting is a gospel script that we have mastered so well that it is second nature to use it. A default setting enables us to explain a few points of the gospel clearly when its appropriate.