Do you want to grow in your skill in talking about your faith? One discipline that I use that helps me grow comfortable in talking about my faith is through writing about that conversation in a journal. I have done a mental review of nearly every evangelistic conversation that I have. I write about it …
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.
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.
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 …
There are special moments when God works through the Holy Spirit that move people another step closer to Jesus in their journey to faith.
You've likely seen them, and maybe you have been a part of them.
But the work of the Holy Spirit can be seen in your life BEFORE you the moment when you placed your faith in Jesus Christ.
Evangelism Training in the local church helps believers to better share their faith
In my previous conversation at the corner McDonald’s where I spent two hours discussing faith, the gospel, and the need for Jesus, my conversation partner brought up Mathew 7:13-14 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small …
What is the role of the Holy Spirit in personal evangelism? We know that God’s Spirit is at work in us as believers. The Holy Spirit: Renews us Regenerates us Trains us, Teaches us, and Transforms us. But, I also want to point out the role of the Holy Spirit to prepares the way for …
In some of our weekend Evangelism Training Seminars, we often build in a practical exercise in personal evangelism, a “lab time,” where people can leave the retreat setting and venture out to do evangelism in the style that we teach. It is modeled after Phillip and the Ethiopian Eunuch. The basic premise is that we ask God …
If proclamation and invitation is central to evangelism, what form does the proclamation take? In our series of conversion stories, we’ve seen Individual conversations that contextualize the gospel to the person being evangelized. Public addresses about Jesus. The actual content or sermon is not really given, but the focus is on the conversion. For today’s …
We attended a small Spanish language community church.
God draws people to himself through worship, even in one who doesn't understand the words.
A young man described for us his journey from empty brokenness to faith in Christ. His spiritual thirst prompted him to take a key step.
What is Spiritual Thirst?
Spiritual thirst is a longing deep in the soul. It is the underlying motive that people have to start and continue their search for God.
Like the apostle Paul in Athens, we got to spend the day wandering around the remains of the Machu Picchu.
