Evangelism Resources

author: Bishop Claude Payne Hamilton Beazley asin: 0787952680 binding: Hardcover list price: $25.95 USD amazon price: $18.94 USD

Reclaiming the Great Commission describes a biblically based model that can restore the missionary power of first-century Christianity to twenty-first century denominations and their congregations. Based on shared vision and mission, the model can guide the members of any congregation or denomination into deeper and broader evangelism, an enhanced experience of community, and a renewed hope of personal and spiritual transformation.

author: Christian A. Schwarz asin: 1889638005 binding: Hardcover list price: $25.00 USD amazon price: $25.00

Critics of the church growth movement have often emphasized the need for quality congregations. We should not focus on numerical growth, but rather, we should concentrate on qualitative growth.

Christian Schwarz has done extensive research world-wide and found that healthy, growing churches seem to share eight quality characteristics. These characteristics are:

Empowering leadership
Gift-oriented ministry
Passionate spirituality
Functional structures
Inspiring worship service
Holistic small groups
Need-oriented evangelism
Loving relationships

author: Martha Grace Reese asin: 0827238045 binding: Paperback list price: $19.99 USD amazon price: $13.59 USD

Based on a major, four-year study of superb evangelism, funded by the Lilly Endowment, Unbinding the Gospel sparkles with life, practicality and spiritual depth. Unbinding the Gospel: Real Life Evangelism is a book for pastors who want to know the truth about the state of evangelism. Recently selected by The Christian Century as a featured "Take and Read"book (2007 book issue), Unbinding the Gospel is a book for Christians who want a hopeful, powerful, joy-filled way to learn to share their faith.

author: Kennon L. Callahan asin: 0787938688 binding: Paperback list price: $21.95 USD amazon price: $21.95 USD

A practical guide to the crucial role of visiting in the life of a church--a role that has grown even more important in an age when so many do not regularly attAnd church services. Presented here are 14 different forms of visiting, to reach both within the church congregation and in the community at large.

author: Jerry M. Stubblefield asin: 0310241030 binding: Paperback list price: $7.99 USD amazon price: $7.99 USD

This practical handbook is designed to provide orientation to the thousands of church members who volunteer to serve church visitation with newcomers, new residents, shut-ins, hospital patients, and grieving members following a death in the family.

author: Henry H. Knight III asin: 0810825899 binding: Hardcover list price: $59.95 USD amazon price: $59.95 USD

...Knight draws together several streams of recent scholarship to highlight the dynamic and relational nature of both grace and holiness in Wesley's theology...a very significant contribution to Wesley studies. More importantly, it is a contribution to the larger Christian community as we seek to understand the nature and nurture of Christian life.--METHODIST HISTORY

author: Randy Newman asin: 082543324X binding: Paperback list price: $13.99 USD amazon price: $11.19 USD

A revolutionary look at sharing Christ with unbelievers by using the probing, provocative, and penetrating method Jesus used to engage others in personal dialogue and caring interaction. (20070401)

author: Robert Schnase asin: 0687645409 binding: Paperback list price: $18.00 USD amazon price: $12.24 USD

Schnase contends that sucessful congregations often have certain characteristics in common. These fundamental practices demonstrate congregational health, vitality, and fruitfulness. They also help churches fulfill their mission to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the tranformation of the world.

The five practices of fruitful congregations:
-Radical Hospitality
-Passionate Worship
-Intentional Faith Development
-Risk-Taking Mission and Service
-Estravagant Generosity

author: Adam Hamilton asin: 0687064155 binding: Hardcover list price: $23.00 USD amazon price: $15.64 USD

Good pastoral leadership is not a "by the numbers" proposition. It is a matter of heart and soul, of devoting the whole self to the vision God gives for the congregation in which one serves. Yet neither is it purely intuitive; it requires hard, careful thinking about the directions and details of the path down which God calls.

When Adam Hamilton became pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, its membership consisted of himself and his family. Ten years later the church averages between five and six thousand worshipers per weekend.