Stages of the Spiritual Journey to Faith
Your spiritual journey to Jesus Christ happens in discernable stages.
The work of the evangelist is detecting the current phase of the journey and pointing to a next step.
Faith Story Number 2: Your Journey to Faith
Your journey to faith in Jesus Christ was not a microwave one minute experience. You were prepared by the Holy Spirit ahead of time. Telling your story of your journey to faith is one of the most important stories you can tell. Read on for ideas and a free download.
A Sinner’s Prayer is not The Goal of Evangelism
His prayer 25 years ago failed. My friend had obediently prayed with the well meaning evangelist. My friend repeated the phrases the evangelist said, one after the next, confessing his sin, inviting Jesus into his heart. But nothing happened. There was no spiritual transaction, no renewal in his heart, no conviction of sin, and no awareness of …
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 …
Do you need to refresh your devotional life?
Does your devotional life seem a little dull and routine? Want to spark a fire for a new round of momentum to keep up your spiritual disciplines? Then make sure you get involved in sharing your faith with people on a regular basis.
Video: Evangelism Cannot Be Our Focus
Is it possible to be too focused on the outcomes of evangelism? It can be when evangelism is taught as a sales technique to get a sinner’s prayer. It can be when evangelism training is reduced to a set of step by step skills that are equivalent to sales techniques. Ask leading questions. Minimize …
How I do Personal Evangelism
What is your evangelism style? Do you prefer to warn the stranger of their sin by open air evangelism? Do you prefer to wait until some one asks you for the reason you believe? Or maybe you prefer to invite people to your church where they can find a community of believers to help them …
Messy Journey to Jesus
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 …
The Apostle Paul’s Journey to Faith in Christ
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 …
This Journey to Faith Took 3 Years
When a young man eavesdropped on my prayer time, it started him on a journey to faith in Christ.
God is sovereign over the process of evangelism, using us even when we may not know it.
30 Days of Prayer: Day 13 – Conversion process is discernable
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 …
30 days of Prayer: Day 7 The Process of Evangelism
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 …
Experiencing a Christian Conversion
Last night, I watched a deeply powerful film. Faith Like Potatoes
Film Review of Flywheel
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 …
Spiritual Thirst: I can’t silence the pain
I’ve been doing a lot of meditating on the story of Ethiopian Eunuch, a man so spiritually thirsty that he is eager for a Christian to explain about Jesus and quick to want to follow. Saturday, I met a man who comes to our little Spanish church (not one of the men in the picture …