A Workshop Of Evangelism

Evangelism doesn't have to be frustrating or intimidating. Bill Hybels and Mark Mittelberg believe that effectively communicating our faith in Christ should be the most natural thing in the world. We just need encouragement and direction. In Becoming a Contagious Christian, Hybels and Mittelberg articulate the central principles that have helped the believers at Willow Creek Community Church become a church known around the world for its outstanding outreach to unchurched people. Based on the words of Jesus and flowing from the firsthand experiences of the authors, Becoming a Contagious Christian is a groundbreaking, personalized approach to relational evangelism. You will discover your own natural evangelism style, how to develop a contagious Christian character, to build spiritually strategic relationships, to direct conversations toward matters of faith, and to share biblical truths in everyday language. This landmark book presents a blueprint for starting a spiritual epidemic of hope and enthusiasm for spreading the Gospel.

I see many schools of the Apostles, Prophets and the prophetic and very little of the School of Evangelism. Many who are evangelists have forgotten that they have the same responsibility given to the other offices to train or edify others to do the same work they do. I believe the time has come for each office to go back to the place of making disciples. And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. --Ephesians 4:11-12 NKJV We have been praying and asking God for revival and I see God bringing revival in the teaching ministry, meaning the spirit of God is stirring us up to teach more as opposed to preaching. With the fresh wind of God blowing, I felt the burden and pull to teach and equip those who are called for the ministry of evangelism by way of this book. I pray that this book will spark a fresh fire for evangelism in the spirit and heart of the one reading it in Jesus mighty name. I pray that you will be fully equipped and receive the desire to equip others to do the work of an evangelist. This workshop book is written to give you some guidelines that will help you to start well. You can also use it to equip your team if you have one. I have underlined some key words or points to help you remember them. When using the book as a workshop tool, the underlined sections will help you to interact with those you are teaching; by asking them to write the keywords down as you give them. Later you can ask them to read to you, repeating the key points and ask you questions. This will help you to stay in the teaching mode instead of preaching. -Apostle Claire Revealed

Christians often struggle to know where to start when it comes to telling others about God, Jesus, sin, and salvation. In this short book, J. Mack Stiles challenges us to view evangelism as something we do together instead of something we do alone, helping churches cultivate a culture of evangelism that goes beyond simply creating new programs or adopting the latest method. The seventh volume in the 9Marks: Building Healthy Churches series, this book will help Christians joyfully embrace evangelism as a way of life as it equips them to share their faith with those who don't yet know Jesus. Part of the 9Marks: Building Healthy Churches series.

Why is evangelism so important? Christ Himself states in Matthew 28: Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. (Matt. 28:19-20 NKJV) Amen. And in Matthew 9: Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest." We must prepare workers so the Lord can send them out. (Matt. 9:37-38 NKJV)

Complete, practical, inspiring - this is 'Training for Evangelism'. Sharing both the successes and the failures of his own church's evangelism program, Richard Sisson presents ideas and principles for fulfilling the Great Commission.

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Service Evangelism has been used by thousands of pastors and lay leaders throughout the United States and Canada to advance a style of evangelism that combines the social and personal dimensions of the gospel.