One of the best training resources available via Soma Communities is learning the “story-formed way” (go here and here for downloadable resources). In this video interview with Scott Thomas of Acts 29, Jeff Vanderstelt shares on the many ways of sharing the gospel, beginning with gospel fluency and confidence in the gospel’s work in your [...]
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Jeff Vanderstelt on the Many Ways of Sharing Your Faith
February 3, 2012Gary Rohrmayer on Engaging in More Spiritual Conversations
January 31, 2012Gary Rohrmayer has written a helpful little book (76 pages) called Spiritual Conversations: Creating and Sustaining Them without Being a Jerk. In it, he provides a lot of practical helps to engaging unbelievers and overcoming evangelistic entropy. Below are five ideas for increasing spiritual conversations with people in your life (from chapter 7): 1. Make [...]
Steps to Sharing the Gospel with Your Family During Christmas
December 8, 2011Since Crossway made it free for Kindle, I’ve been browsing through Randy Newman’s book, Bringing the Gospel Home: Witnessing to Your Family Members, Your Close Friends, and Others You Know Well. This is an incredibly important topic as I have come to find it harder to share the gospel with family members as it is [...]
The Gospel Alphabet: E is for Evangelism
October 2, 2011A | B | C | D In his book, Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old-Fashioned Way, J.I. Packer has a chapter entitled “The Gospel as of First Importance.” In that chapter, Packer discusses the pastoral and formational applications of the Gospel. Many are familiar with the quote from Tim Keller that “the Gospel is not the ABC’s of [...]
Sow the Seed!
August 22, 2011Last Thursday, I took my boys in the bike trailer to our local public library to read books together. The library is one of those “third places” I’m realizing that can be a good way to meet people in my community. Like neighborhood parks, the library provides opportunity for my kids to meet other kids, [...]
J.C. Ryle on a Sinner’s Prayer
August 3, 2011One of my favorite devotional authors is J.C. Ryle, and I have often gone to his trilogy of books, namely Practical Religion, Old Paths, and The Upper Room for personal encouragement and rebuke. In his chapter on prayer, Ryle addresses a sinner who has yet to come to Christ in repentance and faith. Consider his [...]
Reaching the Lives of Those Who Have Wasted It
July 1, 2011Eleven years ago, John Piper boldly proclaimed these words: I was a college student then, about to embark on my life as someone called to proclaim the gospel Jesus Christ. Never had I imagined then that I would be living in the communities comprised of tragedy after tragedy after tragedy. I live and minister 15 [...]
We Must Endeavor to Save Some
March 17, 2011“If the kingdom is ever to come to our Lord–and come it will–it never will come through a few ministers, missionaries, or evangelists preaching the Gospel. It must come through everyone one of you preaching it, in the shop and by the fireside, when walking abroad and when sitting in the chamber. You must all [...]
Necessary Evangelism
March 8, 2011Is the call to evangelize the lost something that all Christians are expected to engage in? This is a question that was recently raised to me. I certainly don’t think it will look the same way with each person, but I do believe we are all called to witness for Christ and live evangelistic lives [...]
What Every Unbeliever Needs to Hear
February 6, 2011Every unbeliever needs someone who will lovingly tell them the truth about a real God, a real hell . . . and real atonement found in the cross of Jesus Christ. HT :: Trevin Wax
4 Evangelistic Motivations for Paul: The Prospect of Eternity
February 1, 2011As I mentioned yesterday, I recently shared with my church family how we are to be working together with God on mission (2 Cor. 6:1). In that message, I laid out four evangelistic motivations from 2 Cor. 5. The first evangelistic motivation for Paul is the prospect of eternity. The Prospect of Eternity In the [...]
Working Together with God
January 31, 2011A couple of weeks ago, I preached a message entitled “Working Together with God.” I have long enjoyed meditating on 2 Corinthians 5, but unfortunately, my reading typically ended with 2 Cor. 5:21. It is the next verse that has arrested my thinking of late, and as you probably know, there were no chapter divisions [...]
Cloaking Cowardice with Custom-Made Bushels
March 31, 2010Don’t know who wrote this at Ligonier, but this is excellent: Martin Luther declared that a new Christian must withdraw from the world for a season, but upon reaching spiritual maturity he must embrace the world as the theater of redemptive activity. His message was, “Away with the cowards who flee from the real world [...]
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