One of the most exciting and anxious things we do in ministry is to lead a child to faith in Jesus Christ. Exciting, because how wonderful is it that a child now has their entire lives to live for Jesus? How awesome is it that a soul born in sin has now been born again [...]
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I’m always on the lookout for tools to help pastors and churches in evangelism. Recently, I was asked about a mobile app for witnessing. At the time, I didn’t really know if a good one existed. Today I found this one – How to Share your Faith. The website even has video training. Check it [...]
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Here is a good video by Tony Nolan and Mark Hall on Sharing Christ with your Friends. IDEA: Show in a church service or youth service
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Recently Brian Dodd from Injoy Stewardship Solutions interviewed Ike Reighard on Church Growth. You can see the original post here. Watch as Ike talks about how a church any size can grow. Brian Dodd And Ike Part 1 from Piedmont Church on Vimeo.
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Watch as Andy Childs, Fred Luter, and Bobby Welch discuss church growth and evangelism at the 2012 State Evangelism conference in Columbus, GA. 2012 State Evangelism Conference – Columbus PANEL from Evangelism Ministries on Vimeo.
Recently our staff made a list of the books that had impacted us in the area of evangelism and church growth. When we compiled our lists we had dozens of books to choose from and from those books we selected the “Top 10″ leadership/evangelism/church growth books. You will notice that not all of the books are [...]
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by Joel Southerland Summer is here and this year it has arrived with a vengance. In the past 7 days I have started my car and seen the dash temperature gauge read 106 and 103….and it’s not a dry heat! Ask the average person in the pew to describe summer and you’ll hear words [...]
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Back To School Bash An Evangelistic Event By Steve Parr As the summer months begin to wind down and families are back from vacations and weekend get-aways, and the weather is still conducive to outdoor activities, you may want to consider “Back to School” activity that can serve as an evangelistic outreach opportunity. Here is [...]
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by joel southerland In a recent business study it was discovered that only 44% of customers questions via Twitter were answered within 24 hours. STELLAService examined the top 25 online retailers to see how their customer service was on Twitter. They looked at their tweets over a 45 day period in [...]
You will notice on the side bar that we have added a podcast player so that you can listen to our radio shows and podcasts. These shows are the ones that originally aired on GBC Internet radio every weekday morning at 10:00 AM. If you have a topic you would like for us to explore [...]
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