We are not talking size of church. Size is not the issue. Growth is the issue. If you are the pastor of a church the issue is not how big you are but whether or not you are growing – reaching people – impacting your community with the Gospel. The studies vary from state to [...]
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I once heard T.W. Hunt say at a conference I was attending where he was speaking that for one year he read no books other than that Bible. It not only profoundly changed his life, but his classic study, The Mind of Christ was the fruit of that. Stephen Covey asked the question in his [...]
Recently, I felt that familiar squeeze on my arm while the nurse applied rapid pressure to the lemon-like black pump in her hand. After a few awkward moments of silence, she would quote my numbers and congratulate me on a having a healthy amount of blood pressure in my 42-year-old body. Then she would tell [...]
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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One of the elements of my ministry I enjoy most is meeting church Evangelism Teams and working out ways to best reach their community. Depending on the community, the ways a church can best reach lost people changes across Georgia. As we meet together we try to decide on what approach would work best for [...]
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Preview of 2013 State Evangelism Conference by Steve Parr The Georgia State Evangelism Conferences have expanded in recent years by virtue of what we call the 1-4-1-4 Plan. The conferences have rotated every other year with a central gathering in odd numbered years followed by four conferences held in various regions during even numbered years. [...]
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Guess what? The front door of your church got moved and the Building-And-Grounds Committee didn’t notify you. But go easy, they didn’t know about it either. The front door of your church is no longer located behind the brick steps. Google is now the front door of your church. And considering that folks who find [...]
Just A Story? Every time this year rolls around I hear Pastors running about trying to find the best way to tackle the Christmas Story. They know they need to “come up with” three or four sermons on the Christmas story. So we all begin… Which individual perspective should I tell the story from? What [...]
