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NAMB National Evangelism Mobilizers- Evangelism Motivation
NAMB National Evangelism Mobilizers discuss how to motivate your congregation to evangelism. , NAMB National Evangelism Mobilizers discuss how to motivate your congregation to evangelism.
Interview with Chris Stephens @ Faith Promise
Chris Stephens is the Senior Pastor at Faith Promise Church in Knoxville, Tenn. In 2014 the church averaged over 5,200 in worship every weekend and…
Interview with Joe Boyd
Joe Boyd is the Senior Pastor at Aviator Church in Derby, Kan. In 2014, they averaged 1,147 people in worship and baptized 168 new believers….
From the parking lot to the pew
Visiting a large church can be a daunting experience. Trying to navigate the parking lots, find your way inside the building, register and drop off…
Does your church have a passion for compassion?
There is a recurring theme throughout Scripture, and that is the command to care for the poor. The wisest man who ever lived, King Solomon,…
Evangelism is spiritual warfare, and souls are worth the fight
Any theology of evangelism that ignores spiritual warfare dooms evangelism from the beginning. It would be the equivalent of a football coach who designs plays…
Three tools for reaching today’s generation
I have been pastoring for many years, and I can still remember summer nights in Memphis, Tennessee, during the 1980s. Groups of students crammed into…
76% of your church members may not know this basic doctrine
The Barna Group recently released a study about the Great Commission. Here’s what the study reveals: 51% of church-goers have never heard of the Great…
You’re all invited!
How many ways can I invite thee? Let me count the ways (to paraphrase the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning)! Having pastored over four decades, preached…
Five ways to give an evangelistic invitation
I have a confession to make. While it is rare that I preach a sermon without having some kind of invitation, I am always nervous…
What role does disciple making play in planting churches?
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Gathering and scattering
Everybody thinks they hate evangelism, but what if that was because they didn’t understand how evangelism happens in the real world? I’m no expert at…
Spiritual journal discipleship
Church planters get pulled in many directions at once. The task of discipling men can get displaced quickly by the tyranny of the urgent. But…
9 characteristics of a church planter: Disciple making
Recently I had the “privilege” of shopping at Home Depot. I say “privilege” because, depending on how handy you consider yourself, shopping at Home Depot…
Theological Incentives for Evangelism
As in other areas of Christian practice—worship, prayer, preaching, and counseling—evangelism needs to be undergirded by a theological reflection on just what it is we…
Evangelism to World Religions (Part 2)
Now that we understand why we should be concerned for members of other religions, we come to our second question: What is the message of…