Two Bs That Must Accompany Our Evangelism
Evangelism includes two things: begging God to save sinners, and boasting about God to sinners.
Evangelism includes two things: begging God to save sinners, and boasting about God to sinners.
Are you leading your church in evangelism? Here are nine questions you need to ask yourself as a pastor to determine your evangelistic focus.
Many Christians provide a wide range of reasons why they may not be able to engage in evangelism, while other have redefined evangelism. The article discusses five common myths about evangelism in the church today.
How can your church can engage better in evangelism? Here are six ways you can use to strengthen evangelism in your church.
Believers tend to struggle with how to do evangelism well. This article explains that having a good grasp of the gospel and its storyline is of great help in evangelism.
Do you struggle to do evangelism? This article lists eight reasons why the author finds it a struggle to evangelize, and you might very well find yourself in these reasons.
The church is called to engage in discipleship. How can you make your church evangelistic? This article explains five steps you need to take to get your church engaged in evangelism.
Did you know you can help your church engage in evangelism? Here are four strategies for evangelism you can use to help your church be evangelistically driven.
The sovereignty of God implies that God can do the impossible. This reality should impact your prayer, giving, and evangelism, and the article fleshes this out.
The cultivation and manifestation of Christian affection between the people of God is a far more weighty argument with unbelievers than any apologetics.
The serene beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world next to the power of God.
Before Christ sent the church into the world, he sent the Spirit into the church. The same order must be observed today.
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.
What might be absent from your evangelism? This article explains that evangelism requires sacrifice.
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,
Real, authentic biblical worship is at its core a celebration of the living, dying, and rising of Christ. This article reflects upon models for evangelism through worship.
This article addresses the notion that evangelism should be left to the leaders of the church. It provides a number of biblical reasons why every believer should evangelize.
This article offers five tips for overcoming relational barriers to reaching out to people different than you, with a view to evangelism opportunities.
Are evangelism and public justice contradictory concerns? This article shows that the mission of the church is the mission of Christ; we are to be concerned about the things and people that concern him.
This article testifies to the impact that hospitality makes in evangelism. It is a little taste of the final banquet that is to come in the kingdom of God.
This article discusses the theological motivations for evangelism. In particular, it shows the relationship between evangelism and the love of God, the spiritual state of those being evangelized, Scripture, and the return of the Lord.
This article traces some of the history of church architecture. Some of the current trends in church planning are analyzed, with emphasis on the importance of church buildings that encourage fellowship and 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.
Evangelism is not easy, because of fear of man. So how do we grow in boldness for the gospel? This article draws encouragement in this regard from Acts 4.
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.
Falling into sin may be viewed as weakening your Christian witness. However, are you aware that your repentance is also evangelism? This article explains how repentance is a form of witnessing.
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.
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.
It is the desire of every pastor to cultivate a culture of evangelism in the church. Do you know how to do that? This article shares six ways that can direct your church to a culture of evangelism.
Is there a model the church can use to reach out to the lost through evangelism? The church can use the model of incarnation, inquiry, interpretation, and ignition. This article explains what this model looks like—the model Jesus used on the road to Emmaus.
What is the key to evangelism? It is the ability to listen. There are two things you can do to help you when evangelizing: listen to people's stories, ask questions, and then tell the gospel.
Every Christian has a desire to share the gospel with unbelievers. Often the challenge is how one does it. In this article the goal of evangelism is shared: we want to see the sinner’s salvation in a way that glorifies God for his work.
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.
What do tattoos have to do with the church? Maybe the question should be, what does evangelism have to do with a sinner? The article considers these questions.
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.
God uses the church, both its leadership and its members, as his agent of evangelism.
This article is about the Great Commission. God gives believers strength for evangelism and mission work.
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.
Members of the congregation can be involved in mission work and evangelism in two ways: directly and indirectly. This article looks at both ways.
What should be the relationship between evangelism and social action in mission work? Should they both characterize missions? To answer these questions this article looks at different views on this issue. It discusses the relationship between the Great Commission, the Great Commandment, and the call to the church to seek justice.
Christians will be called to defend the faith. How do you defend your faith in public? How can you engage in evangelism? This article explains the temptations facing Christians when it comes to defending their faith, the reason for this defense, and the manner of defending the faith on the basis of 1 Peter 3:15.
Understanding some major false religions is important for evangelism. This article introduces animism as a religion that at its core is the worship of spirits. The author presents its characters, and how the Bible views animism.
Does God's sovereign work of election nullify the need for evangelism? Looking at the relationship between election and evangelism, this article shows that God’s sovereign work of election should be the fuel for evangelism.
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.
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.
This article explores different functions of apologetics in different contexts as a tool for evangelism.
This article shows how the doctrine of perseverance of the saints should motivate evangelism and mission work.
The author interprets Hebrews 13:10-13 to mean a call to mission and evangelism.
Is preaching the sole means for presenting the gospel in evangelism? This article shows how John Bunyan defended his use of allegory in his Pilgrim's Progress to confront people with the claims of the gospel on their lives.
This article explains the relationship between the extent of the atonement and evangelism, quoting part of J.I. Packer's Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God.
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.
Just like Timothy who was commanded to do the work of an evangelist, pastors must also do evangelism. How do they do that? This article suggests four ways in which pastors must carry out this work, starting with themselves.
If evangelism is about making idol worshippers true worshippers of Jesus, how can you make each day an evangelistic day? This article mentions five principles you need to remember and seven practical ways for evangelistic conversation.
Do you want to learn to evangelize? The book of Proverbs offers eight basic lessons on evangelism, which this article considers.
It is a desire of every pastor to get church members involved in evangelism. How can you develop a culture of evangelism in your church? This article suggests six ways you can do that.
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.
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.
The article deplores the weakened nature of today's evangelism. The author points out one important aspect of evangelism that has been ignored: this work is for the glory of God alone, not man. The article goes on to consider the nature of the gospel as something not independent of the law of God. In conclusion the author considers what God's people must do in view of the existing situation of evangelistic malpractice.
How does one balance the doctrine of the sovereignty of God with that of the universal offer of the gospel? This article addresses this question, explaining the Reformed view of evangelism.
The doctrine of definite atonement, or limited atonement, has often caused controversy, not least in the area of evangelism. This article considers how Christ himself both spoke of the doctrine and gave a universal call for all to come to him.
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.
Evangelism should be the work of the whole congregation. To carry out this responsibility the church must be enabled by the Holy Spirit and equipped by the office bearers.
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.
This article shows that the only hope for missions and evangelism lies in grasping the truth God’s grace is always effectual. It shows that irresistible grace was the motive for Reformers to be involved in missions and evangelism, and so it must be for the church today.
Amyraldianism (following the teaching of Amyraldus/Amyraut) is often portrayed as a balanced alternative to both Calvinism and Arminianism. This article reviews the publication Christ for the World: Affirming Amyraldianism. This book is an Amyraldian commentary on developments in Reformed theology after the Synod of Dort.
This article considers how the doctrines of election, limited atonement, and total depravity harmonize with evangelism.
What happens when evangelism is strictly by silent witness? This article urges evangelism that is not only visible but audible.
This article considers Romans 3:25 in context as a motivation for intentional evangelism.
Anointed as prophet, every Christian has the calling and ability to confess Jesus’ name. This article explains that evangelism is the responsibility of every believer. The love of God experienced by the believer generates a response of love, which is the motive for evangelism. So members must be encouraged to carry out this task of witnessing.
This article describes the Reformed view of evangelism, focusing on the confrontational character of the gospel.
This article considers how to incorporate the law into evangelism.
Is it fair to say that environmental degradation is the product of Christianity,? What are the ideological roots of the environmental crisis? Moo suggests that the attitude of an “either/or” when it comes to evangelism and environmental concern is a false dilemma.
In this chapter Haykin reveals John Calvin's approach to Scripture and theology that was clearly pro-missions and pro-evangelism. While Calvin was concerned more directly with purifying the church than initiating a worldwide missions movement, his interpretation of the Bible was consistent with a free proclamation of the gospel for the salvation of the lost.