Evangelism Resources

The General Board of Discipleship provides Evangelistic Preaching Helps on their website at www.GBOD.org/evangelism. It is a monthly online resource to assist pastors in developing evangelistically focused sermons.

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La Junta General de Discipulado ofrece este manual como una descarga capaz de archivo PDF. El manual ofrece sugirió recursos, así como en pequeños grupos período de sesiones se describen las preguntas y el debate.

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Originally published at Offering Christ Today Online , a publication of GBOD

We are approaching the beginning of a new year in the Christian calendar. Advent is a time of preparation for the coming of Christ again into our world and into our lives — for some, maybe the coming of Christ for the first time. We look to Christmas when God came in Christ Jesus as Emmanuel, God with us. What a gift — this time of year when we remember again and focus on the message of the angels:

by Daniel Benedict
Originally published at www.GBOD.org/worship

Most congregations find they have to dust off the back pews on Christmas Eve. A lot of people show up for what is both a major feast of the church and a major cultural holiday. The following are some rather unsystematic suggestions for extending hospitality to all on Christmas Eve and at any other times that God welcomes strangers:

The General Board of Discipleship offers this manual as a dowload-able PDF file. The manual offers suggested resources as well as small-group session outlines and discussion questions.

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By: Robert Schnase
Publisher: Abingdon Press (2007)

This book outlines for clergy and lay leadership practices for becoming a more outreach and mission-oriented church faithful to making disciples for Jesus Christ.

Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations author: Robert Schnase asin: 0687645409

By: Adam Hamilton
Publisher: Abingdon Press (2002)

Rev. Adam Hamilton, pastor of United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, shares his insights as pastor of a church plant. He divulges the questions he asked himself and the leaders in the church on how they could reach out to the community around them and be a missional presence in their area.

Leading Beyond the Walls: Developing Congregations With a Heart for the Unchurched author: Adam Hamilton asin: 0687064155

Bishop Scott Jones of the Kansas-West Annual Conference shares insights on how congregations can be more evangelistically effective in his 20 Components of an Evangelistically Effective Congregation available as a download-able PDF file.

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Obispo Scott Jones de la Kansas-oeste Conferencia Anual comparte ideas acerca de cómo las congregaciones pueden ser más eficaces en la evangelización en su artículo Comonentes de una Congregacion Evangelisticament Efectiva. Descargue el artículo a continuación.

Artículo publicado originalmente en www.kswestumc.org.

Bishop Scott Jones of the Kansas-West Annual Conference shares insights on how congregations can be more evangelistically effective in his Congregational Evangelism Workbook in a download-able PDF file.

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Bishop Scott Jones of the Kansas-West Annual Conference created a DVD series the coaches the local church to becoming Evangelistically Effective Congregations. The series includes three DVDs.

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“Evil. The very word has the power to conjure up a sense of threat and make us stop and wonder. Why is there evil? What is it exactly? Where does it come from?

Ron Crandall wrote a guest article for EvangelismCoach.org entitled ABIDE: A Model for Renewing Smaller Congregations.

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by Bishop Richard C. Looney
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In reading the Gospels one is struck by the number of times Jesus invites people to become his followers. It’s amazing to see how quickly people responded to that invitation even when the requirements were demanding and difficult.

A blog post at EvangelismCoach.org shares the best way NOT to welcome a visitor to your congregation.

Most churches have an unofficial dress code that visitors don’t know. When a visitor appears to break the dress code, how does your church react?

Does your reaction help the mission of evangelism, or does it create an environment that is hostile to evangelism? ...

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By: Dr. Bryan Stone
Publisher: Brazos Press
ISBN-10: 1587431947
ISBN-13: 978-1587431944

Evangelism after Christendom: The Theology and Practice of Christian Witness author: Bryan P. Stone asin: 1587431947

Chris Forbes of MinistryMarketingCoach.com posits that social networking can be an invaluable tool for pastors and lay leaders to build relationships with parishoners and non-parishoners outside the traditional means of communication.

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