What happens when 2,000 come forward?

Dave Ferguson : The Celebration I Will Never Forget The lead pastor of Chicago’s Community Christian Church on what he’s learning: “A couple years ago, we had a service where we offered to ordain any person who felt called to the ministry of a particular person or a place. We taught from 1 Peter 2:9, how [...]

Warning: Loving Your Neighbor is a Dangerous Act

The Dangerous Act of Loving Your Neighbor Seeing Others Through the Eyes of Jesus Author: Mark Labberton InterVarsity Press  2010 To call Jesus Lord means bringing all of our lives and world before the One who as Lord reorders power and asks us to follow him in doing so. The first and second commandments call God’s [...]

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SHARE ~ When Praying Becomes Witnessing

A few years ago, two or three of my colleagues and I were in a country dominated for decades by Marxism. Before we began our meetings, we were invited to a dinner hosted by some common friends, all of whom were skeptics and, for all practical purposes, atheists. The evening was full of questions, posed [...]

Effective Evangelism: Upward & Outward Praying

Effective Evangelism 7 Ways to Rate Your Church How to measure your church’s ministry. By Leith Anderson Money magazine annually rates the 300 best places in America to live. The ratings are based on climate, affordability, amenities, crime rate, public transportation, medical care, and other factors. NOTE>>>The first two have an immediate prayer application >>>Click [...]

Are You Crazy Enough to Care?

Crazy Enough to Care Changing Your World Through Compassion, Justice and Racial Reconciliation By Alvin C. Bibbs Nothing confronts a person’s faith quite like injustice, pain, suffering. We see these things in our world, in our neighborhoods, and we don’t know what to do with ourselves. We’ve got to do something, but where to begin? [...]

SHARE ~ Big Idea for Small Groups

Small Group Outreach Activity Throw a baby shower for the local crisis pregnancy center. Find out what their needs are, then get group members and others from your church involved to collect gifts. Set a time and have a party for center workers with cutely wrapped presents and cake! NavPress

Online Evangelistic Site Reaches Millions; Quickly Invovles Church Members

Using the Internet to Reach Out for Christ By Tait Berge, Special to ASSIST News Service COLORADO SPRINGS, CO (ANS) – The Internet is becoming a powerful evangelistic tool, and Global Media Outreach reaches people all over the world for Jesus, at their point of need. GMO is seeing over 1 million people on average [...]

Friendliness leads to evangelism … but do we overestimate ourselves?

 Friendliness and evangelistic effectiveness tend to go together. When church members are truly excited about evangelism, there is a natural friendliness toward non-Christians. There is a genuine desire to welcome them into worship. Unchurched individuals often enter a church building expecting to be judged for their appearance, their past, or their lack of church [...]

“When a church ceases to evangelise and to plant new churches, it will not have the right to exist.”

Nigeria: When the bishops start evangelizing again Just after the First World War, an Anglican diocese was established in Lagos in Nigeria. Ninety-one years later, it has become the largest active Protestant church body in the world. Much of the growth, however, occurred during the last two decades. From 24 dioceses in 1988, the church [...]

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