Evangelism

Imagine the following situation: You’re talking to a group of people in a coffee shop, and the issue of religion comes up. Having just met…

Looking back can be helpful. We dare not live in the past, but to evaluate it can be advantageous. Here are seven questions to ask…

1. Reserve a night for “Neighbor Night” Years ago, when my wife and I started talking about wanting to develop a lifestyle of biblical hospitality,…

The idea of rethinking vocation must start with considering the sacred/secular divide, or what some people refer to as the problem of dualism. Dualism, simply…

Nearly everyone I’ve known who is active in apologetic work deeply understands the necessity of the Spirit to bring about conversion. I’ve never met an…

Mankind is not morally neutral. When you share the gospel, you don’t speak to someone who is devoid of worldview commitments. You don’t witness in…

There are many reasons you’d want to attend an established church—some good reasons and some, well, not so good ones. “They have a better children’s…

The idea of rethinking vocation must start with considering the sacred/secular divide, or what some people refer to as the problem of dualism. Dualism, simply…

To develop healthy disciple-making practices, we must recapture the art of hospitality. Our castle or His weapon? Have you heard the expression, “Every man’s home…

If you’ve heard me speak or if you’ve read any of my books, what I’m about to write shouldn’t be new to you; if you’re…

Last week I introduced you to, or reminded you of, a concept called identity amnesia: Christians become ineffective and unfruitful when they forget who they…

Finally, let me give you an easy-to-remember bridge to use as you share the gospel with your Muslim friend. Whenever you meet Muslims, they’ll say,…

Presence, the second largest of our blocks, is about being with your Muslim friends. Muslims, and middle-easterners in general, are event-oriented people. It’s not about…

Proclamation is sharing of the good news, and the pyramid cannot exist without it. Religious conversations are never difficult to get into with a Muslim,…

The smallest of the “P’s” is persuasion, which is also the point of the pyramid – or the tip of the spear, to use another…

You’ve heard it said that you are what you celebrate and there is nowhere that is truer than in the local church. Here’s what I mean… The…