Is it ever too soon to share the gospel?
When we meet someone, how long should it take to share the gospel with them?
There is a time and place for evangelism, but can it happen way too soon?
God — The Evangelist
We can't cause, create, nor bring results in evangelism.
Evangelism is ultimately a spiritual activity. The fruit (i.e., a disciple) of our evangelism work is truly God's doing.
The fear of the E-word
In the November 2014 issue of Presbyterians Today, I share an article that gives 3 basic steps to overcome your personal fear of evangelism. Sometimes called “the e-word,” as if evangelism is an unspeakable curse word, personal evangelism is generally not a regular discipline among believers in mainline churches because of associations with pushy street …
4 Free Evangelism Tools Everyone Must Have
The most effective evangelism tool is the one you use.
Though there are all sorts of gospel outlines, training events, books, and evangelism workshops available to equip you, none of those things matter if you don't use any of them.
Are you a Genesis 3 Christian?
I listened to the testimony of an adult woman from Guatemala. She is 2nd from the left in the image. Her journey to faith brought me to tears, and once again aroused my desire to help other people share the good news of Jesus Christ. As you read or listen her story, ask yourself this …
Podcast: Equipping People to Reach their Sphere of Influence
I’ve coached enough pastors and done enough evangelism training seminars to know that one challenge that many of you face is equipping your people for evangelism. How do you lead your congregation in effective evangelism? How do you equip your members to be more confident in sharing their faith? How do you do evangelism training? …
Do I Need to Know My Spiritual Gifts before I do Evangelism?
Today’s Guest Article is from Jeffrey Johnson, author of Got Style? Personality Based Evangelism, who recently did a blog book tour (see related links at the end). See my review of Got Style at Personality Based Evangelism
Book Review: Evangelism in the New Testament
“Offenses ought to be pardoned, for few offend willingly, but only as led by some excitement” — Hegesippus, 300 BC. When a book on evangelism methodology starts with a quote about pardoning offences, I wonder why the author feels the need to start there with his reader. I finished reading Evangelism in the New testament …
Community Evangelism Webinar Resource Page
I’ve been reading Evangelism Where You Live: Engaging Your Community and I think it is a must read book for pastors of struggling churches. It’s a book that is based out of years of practical experience, and has much to say to how a church should engage it’s community. How does your church connect with the community? …
God’s Plan for Sharing — A Church Vision for Outreach
The North American Mission Board is developing a new evangelism initiative to fulfill their 2020 vision of “Every Believer Sharing, Every Person Hearing.” “God’s Plan for Sharing” is meant to encourage Christians to prayerfully and thoughtfully engage in the most effective approach for making Christ known. GPS lays out four biblical mileposts to lead your …
5 Phases of Church Renewal
As I continued to read through Ron Crandall’s book, he gives a list of principles for church renewal and revitalization from the ages of church history. It may seem like a no-brainer, but at least observations through church history back it up. 1. Personal renewal. Renewal of a church begins with renewal of the individual. …
Did Saint Francis of Assisi get it wrong?
One of my loyal readers wrote an interesting post: Today, I had coffee with a friend of mine who said, “I don’t believe that it is my responsibility to share the gospel.” He just wanted to live his life in such a way that people would be attracted to that example and hopefully come to …
Connecting Worship and Evangelism
During January, I received a series of questions via Ask Evangelism Coach section. A series of posts this week will focus on sharing these. It’s my hope that our readers will join in the conversation. The question for today: What is the difference between Evangelism and Worship?
Divine Appointments
A divine appointment is recognizing God’s prompting a moment that will impact someone’s life in their jourey to faith. These are kairos moments.
Divine Appointment: God’s presence is with us
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 …
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 …
Effective Evangelism Training Lab Time
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 …
From Athens to Machu Picchu
Like the apostle Paul in Athens, we got to spend the day wandering around the remains of the Machu Picchu.