Therefore, Go
The article provides a reminder to believers on the dangers and difficulties involved in the work of discipleship and evangelism. This includes the importance of understanding the depths of the grace of God towards sinners who may still continue to sin even after being converted, and indeed the believer's attitude towards sin.
Reformed Mission in Southern Africa The Way Forward
The Unevangelized: Lost or Saved?
Evangelism in the Established Church: Practicing Personal Evangelism – Sharing the Good News
Every Christian has a desire to share the gospel with unbelievers. Often the challenge is how one does it. In this article the content of evangelism is shared: where to start and what to say is when personally evangelizing someone.
Effective Evangelism
God tells us that the preaching of the Word is the most powerful tool of evangelism. Are churches and members today being effective in this preaching of the gospel? This article weighs in.
Eight Lessons on Evangelism from Proverbs
Do you want to learn to evangelize? The book of Proverbs offers eight basic lessons on evangelism, which this article considers.
The Gagging of the Church: Evangelism without the Evangel
What happens when evangelism is strictly by silent witness? This article urges evangelism that is not only visible but audible.
A Pastor's Role in Evangelism
Puritan Evangelism
To understand the Puritan way of evangelism, one must understand how their practice of evangelism differs from the modern practice of it. This article shows that the difference lies in their doctrine of man and his state.
Home Mission Worker
Relevance of 'Calvinism' for the Church Growth and Expansion in the Modern World
Evangelism Revisited
Inside the Mind of User-Friendly Evangelism
Why Joy Increases through Evangelism
Everyday Evangelistic Conversations
Two Bs That Must Accompany Our Evangelism
Evangelism includes two things: begging God to save sinners, and boasting about God to sinners.
Are You a Great Commission Leader?
How are you honouring the Great Commission as a leader in the church? Here are ten questions you can ask yourself in order to see to what extent you are mindful of the Great Commission in your labours.
What's Your Church Sign For?
What should you put on a church signboard? If you put up a church sign, avoid these three things: jokes, insider language, and shaming. In their place, this article suggests three things to consider having on the sign.
Missions and Evangelism
Active and Passive Conversion
Should We in Evangelism Approach Only Unbelievers or Also Members of Other Churches?
Do We Have to Preach the Gospel or Instruct in the Scriptures?
Obstacles to Evangelism
Objections to Evangelism
How to Overcome "Our Guilty Silence"
How the Church Becomes Visible
Present Day Evangelism
Crusade Evangelism
The Mission of God in the Old Testament
Why I didn’t see ... The Passion of the Christ
Reformed Evangelism
You Are My Witnesses
Five Common Evangelism Excuses
There are five excuses you may give for not evangelizing. This article looks at these evangelism excuses and gives remedies to them to get you started in evangelism.
The Missing Piece in Our Evangelism
What might be absent from your evangelism? This article explains that evangelism requires sacrifice.
Five Things You Must Do When Talking to People About Jesus
When you are witnessing to a non-Christian, these are five things you must not forget.
Get to Work In the Workplace you Need Courage, Perseverance, and Some Simple Strategies
Five Things Mistaken for Evangelism
What is evangelism? Part of answering this question is knowing what evangelism is not. This article identifies five things that are mistaken for evangelism.
Small Towns Need Missionaries
How can a church do mission work in a small town? The church must be gospel-centred and church orientated, it must equip people and be a mission community. These are the anchor posts to support mission in small towns.
Evangelism in the Established Church: Practicing Personal Evangelism – How to Do It
Every Christian has a desire to share the gospel with unbelievers. Often the challenge is how to do it. This article shares the method of evangelism. Some different methods are considered and evaluated, with the preference for the seed-planting method.
Sowing Gospel Seeds
Are you struggling to engage in evangelism? Think of evangelism as sowing seeds, then think of different ways you can sow the seeds of the gospel. This article offers ten such ways.
Why Joy Increases through Evangelism
Did you know that engaging in evangelism can increase your joy as a Christian? How is that possible? There are three ways, and this article will explain them.
Five Common Evangelism Excuses
This article raises and evaluates five common excuses for not evangelizing, and follows up with a plan to alter the course and look for opportunities for evangelism.
Discipline and Missions
Church discipline is not reserved for established churches alone. This article argues that it must be administered in mission churches since discipline is a mark of the true church. It discusses where it must be administered and the importance thereof.
Evangelizing Roman Catholics
This article identifies a few problem areas in Reformed evangelism among Roman Catholics, and then outlines some ways in which Protestants can more effectively communicate the gospel of grace to them.
Romans 3:25 – How to Motivate Yourself and Others in Evangelism
This article considers Romans 3:25 in context as a motivation for intentional evangelism.
The Reformed View of Evangelism
This article describes the Reformed view of evangelism, focusing on the confrontational character of the gospel.
How to Evangelize a Muslim
Evangelism for God's Glory
Two Views of the Gospel
In evangelism there is an approach that is man-centred and one that is God-centred. The one makes man sovereign and the other God sovereign. How? This article compares the two to show you how.
Reformed Evangelism
To evangelize is to set forth the good news. This article seeks to explain the Reformed understanding of this offer. It looks at the presuppositions that govern Reformed evangelism, the Reformed view of the gospel, the method of evangelism, and the zeal for evangelism.
Relevant Preaching
Fishing: A Forgotten Model of Ministry
The Ordinary Means of Growth
Liberalism says the message must change for the church to reach the world, while the seeker-sensitive approach calls for a change of methods. This article shows that God gave both the message and the methods: these are the means of grace—preaching, sacraments, and prayer. These are essential to church growth.
It's Hard to Be Seeker-Sensitive When You Work for Jesus
Evangelism that is according to the seeker-sensitive approach turns the Lord Jesus into a product. This is the trap the church must not fall into. Why? Let the article explain.
'Traditional or Experimental'
Rational or Practical: Communicating the Gospel Today
Jesus Christ and Other Religions
Evangelism: The Church’s Missionary Task in the World
This article is about the definition of evangelism and mission, and the relation of evangelism and mission. It also discusses evangelism by lifestyle, by every believer's living faith.
Being Ready to Witness Acts 26 shows it can be as simple as saying what you've seen
How Do We Reach Our Modern World?
Give Your Church the Multivitamin of Evangelism
This article suggests that increasing evangelism in the church is crucial for supplementing the health of the church. It has a way of promoting biblical literacy, Christian unity, and personal holiness,
Five Vital Ways to Seek the Welfare of Your Neighbourhood
How do you seek the welfare of your neighbourhood community? This article offers five simple ways: pray for the community, spend time in the community, know the assets in the community, make the community beautiful, and open your home.
Evangelism in a Culture of Religious Nones
Why is it that unbelief is growing? While this question cannot be answered fully, part of the reason may be the way the church does evangelism. If the church's way of doing evangelism is coercive, lacks wisdom, and is not personal, then the church cannot expect to have an impact.
Three Lies That Hinder Our Mission According to John Calvin
What are the lies that hinder you from living the Christian life, witnessing, and evangelism? This article shows from John Calvin that there are three lies: self, society, and Satan.
Jesus Welcomed REAL Sinners. Do We?
The evangelism ministry of the church must be full of grace in welcoming sinners. Often, however, this is a key struggle for the church. This article outlines four misconceptions that unbelievers have about the church, which serve as barriers to evangelism.
Humble Evangelism
Humble evangelism—can this be the way of doing evangelism? What is it, exactly? It is evangelism that starts with the awareness of your own need for Jesus.
Evangelistic Malpractice
This article identifies a number of unbiblical approaches to evangelistic ministry. These include the omission of the aspects of repentance from sin and the lordship of Christ, the hiding of the terms of discipleship, and the salesmanship techniques employed in bringing people to confess faith in Christ.
Kelong and Net
When Christ called the disciples he promised that he would make them fishers of men. This article shows that this image has implications for the method of doing evangelism.
Lifestyle Evangelism
Evangelism in Reformed Congregations
Fitting Third-World Believers with Christian Worldview Glasses
What is a Christian worldview? Everyone comes to perceive the world and God in a way formed and influenced by their culture and sub-culture. From a Christian perspective, it is imperative to replace such an old worldview with the one communicated in the gospel. This essay considers what it means to replace a natural third-world worldview with a Christian worldview.
The Bay of Islands and Beyond
"First Things" as Faithful Witness: Applying Paul's Ministry Manifesto Today
What did Paul mean when he said he was all things to all people? This article considers the challenge of the Christian witness today, in the face of unprecedented moral revolution. We are to bear witness to the gospel of Christ by holding on to all that the Bible instructs us to, and letting go of all that would undermine the truth of God's Word.
Outreach: Precursor to Evangelism
Does Inclusivist Theology Undermine Evangelism?
Are those who have not heard the gospel excluded from the blessing of a life with God? More evangelical scholars have recently questioned the conviction that those who die without faith in Christ are excluded from eternal blessings. In this paper it is argued that an unqualified inclusivism undermines the urgency of mission and evangelism. Two scholars, Clark Pinnock and John Sanders are placed in the spotlight.
From Zeus to Zilch: Evangelism and Post-Christian Culture
This article considers the way Paul and Barnabas engaged with the Lycaonians in Acts 14:1-20. It shows that evangelism that begins with God as Creator is the point of contact to common human experience, for no one can deny that they were created. Paul argues that all men are already in the debt of a gracious God, and so are to repent of sin and place their faith in Christ. Preaching is to proclaim the Creator and Redeemer of all things.