Resources for Evangelism

What Could We Share - pdf of suggested topics and verses

The Gospel and Personal Evangelism - Mark Dever

What Is the Gospel - Greg Gilbert

The Gospel According to Jesus - John MacArthur

Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, J. I. Packer

Here’s a great and encouraging video of John MacArthur describing his recent opportunity to see his football coach from 50 years ago come to Christ. What do you think about MacArthur’s approach?

John MacArthur – Study Video from Together for the Gospel (T4G) on Vimeo.

HT: Together for the Gospel

I just finished reading Kevin DeYoung’s latest blog-post, “The Gospel Old and New.” Excellent. Well said. It fueled my heart’s passion for the heart of the gospel in light of the emerging competitors. Here’s the opening:

Have you heard the New Gospel?  It”™s not been codified. It”™s not owned by any one person or movement.  But it is increasingly common.

The New Gospel generally has four parts to it.

It usually starts with an apology: “I”™m sorry for my fellow Christians. I understand why you hate Christianity.  It”™s like that thing Ghandi said, “˜why can”™t the Christians be more like their Christ?”™  Christians are hypocritical, judgmental, and self-righteous.  I know we screwed up with the Crusades, slavery, and the Witch Trials.  All I can say is: I apologize.  We”™ve not give you a reason to believe.”

Then there is an appeal to God as love: “I know you”™ve seen the preachers with the sandwich boards and bullhorns saying “˜Repent or Die.”™ But I”™m here to tell you God is love. Look at Jesus.  He hung out with prostitutes and tax collectors.  He loved unconditionally.  There is so much brokenness in the world, but the good news of the Bible is that God came to live right in the middle of our brokenness. He”™s a messy God and his mission is love.  “˜I did not come into the world to condemn the world,”™ that”™s what Jesus said (John 3:17).  He loved everyone, no matter who you were or what you had done. That”™s what got him killed.”

Be sure to read the whole thing.

While I should be sleeping, or at a minimum, posting something edifying from the Shepherds’ Conference, I am actually going to do neither at the moment.  Well, it was last night after the conference that two of our interns proposed our church look into a new means of increasing the evangelistic effectiveness and passion of our people.  Their suggested tool:  The Evangelism Linebacker.  We plan to begin this Sunday.  I can’t quit laughing!

Good word here from an Atheist on the importance and seriousness of evangelism.

Ed Stetzer notes that multi-ethnic is not necessarily the same thing as multi-cultural.  Stetzer blazes through (wow he talks fast) issues related to being a truly multi-cultural church.

Question, if you are in fact reaching the people in the community of which your local church resides (whether it is multi-ethnic or not), are you a single-cultural church and is that then bad?  I’m going to watch the video again to focus on how a single congregation in Hemet, California can be multi-cultural.

adrianwarnock.com: VIDEO – Ed Stetzer Interview – Contextualization and Multicultural Churches

This is a great video interview with Mark Dever.  Thank God for him.  He spoke so very clearly and kept the Gospel at the center of the conversation and did it in such a way that any offense would be the content of his message rather than his personality.  Ed Stetzer did an excellent job in the interview.  This being my first time to really hear Stetzer, I have a greater appreciation for him.

You need to watch these two videos – excellent discussion on the gospel and the seeker/culture driven approach to ministry.

Video: Mark Dever Interviewed By Ed Stetzer At The Whiteboard Conference | Said at Southern Seminary

Are you an evangelistic pastor (that is if you are in fact a pastor)?   Here’s a few statistics worth thinking through. Planting with Passion

I was unfamiliar with the article “A Common Word Between Us.”  John Piper’s video challenge is worth the listen even if you are as ignorant as I am about attempts between Muslim’s and Christians to come together. A Common Word Between Us? :: Desiring God Blog