This Week’s Reflection
Evangelectionary Reflection for Sunday, May 19, 2013 – Pentecost
Texts: Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 104:24-35; Romans 8:14-17; John 14:8-17, 25-27 Reflection by Joshua Brockway, director for spiritual life and discipleship, Church of the Brethren An encounter with God is never easy to explain. Words are not enough to describe the heart of the experience. But Luke, master … [Read More...]
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Research on Clifton StrengthsFinder and Personal Evangelism
How can Christians do personal evangelism in a way that’s empowering? Through-out my 33 years of ministry, I’ve observed how many Christians struggle in the area of personal evangelism. Some feel inadequate and others are fearful. Another reason shared with me is that some say “I don’t have the spiritual gift of evangelism.” Research done [...]
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Book Review: Got Style?
Book Review: Got Style? Personality-based Evangelism Jeffrey A. Johnson, Judson Press, 168 pp., 2009. What if someone wrote a well-balanced book on doing evangelism that is both biblically and theologically sound, while providing an inclusive process for implementing the “e” word in today’s post-modern church? What if this person were to illustrate this book with stories [...]
Book Review: Becoming a Blessed Church
A medium-sized mainline church in a suburb you won’t recognize has been personally impacted and passed on naturally an experience with God that has blessed both the church and the community. Now that’s a blessed church! No. it’s not a mega-church, and no, it’s not in a booming area, and no, it’s not famous, but [...]
Book Review: Introducing the Missional Church
Reviewed by Steve Manskar Introducing the Missional Church: What It Is, Why It Matters, How to Become One by Alan J. Roxburgh and M. Scott Boren Baker Books, 2009 ISBN 978-0801072123 In their introduction to Introducing the Missional Church: What It Is, Why It Matters, How to Become One, the authors quote Dr. Rowan Williams, the [...]
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The New Evangelism, Revisited
||This article was originally posted at LandonWhitsitt.com and reprinted here with the author’s permission.|| Last January, I offered a few thoughts on what a “New Evangelism” might look like. In that post, I cribbed the ideas from a documentary I had watched aboutinfluencers, asking if the church could reframe its thinking on evangelism in light of [...]
The Seven Fields of Mission
I have two learnings from my work with evangelism and mission: Evangelism belongs inside of mission. We all live in at least seven mission fields each day – home, work, the local community, the wider world, leisure, spiritual health, and the church’s life and outreach. Only a few are front and center daily but all [...]
Video and Resources from Transforming Congregations Engaging Communities
The UCC’s Evangelism page has posted a series of videos and other resources from the evangelism conference held in Detroit last November: View the outstanding preaching that captivated the audience at the Evangelism conference in Detroit 2 – 5 November 2011. Use these segments to encourage and excite your church to move forward with planning [...]
