by Steve Sjogren | Aug 15, 2018 | Outreach and Evangelism
“So who on Planet Earth is the most unlikely person to ever come into a living relationship with Jesus?” This is the question I posed to many thousands of conference attendees at least one hundred speaking events over a five or six-year period. Without...
by Rice Broocks | Aug 3, 2018 | Church Leadership, Church Planting, Outreach and Evangelism
I’ve been deeply challenged by the tireless efforts of the men and women that advance the cause of the “new atheism” into the empty hearts of postmodern westerners. Nature abhors a vacuum so, in the absence of faith, unbelief or atheism becomes the...
by Rice Broocks | Jun 1, 2018 | Church Planting, Communication / Preaching, Outreach and Evangelism
In a previous entry – “Evangelism is not just relationship” I submitted that we must not hesitate to share the Gospel even if we don’t have a relationship with the person. My hope is to get people talking about the Gospel. Yes, preaching the Gospel...
by Steve Sjogren | Nov 3, 2011 | Church Leadership, Church Planting, Outreach and Evangelism
I recently took the online inventory commonly referred to as the APEST put together by Alan Hirsch and company. The notion behind this quiz is that all leaders have some measure of all five of the Eph. 4 office gifts resting upon them – Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist,...
by Alvin Reid | Oct 27, 2011 | Church Leadership, Church Planting, Outreach and Evangelism
I read a statement a while back in Dan Kimball’s book They Like Jesus but Not the Church that burned me with conviction. He asked something like, “When you go to a movie or go to hang out with friends, do you do so only with your Christian friends?” All my adult life...
