Leading in Evangelism Resources

We have created a range of practical guides and papers to resource leading in evangelism. We will add to this page as we develop new materials, so do keep popping back to have a look.

Practical Guides

• Questions to ask - asking questions is a great way to encourage and equip our people to share their faith. This handout explains why this is a good approach and offers a range of questions people could use, including five related to the pandemic.
• Top five evangelism training materials - this guide recommends our five top suggestions for evangelism training materials (plus some additional ones as a bonus), with links to a full review of each and to the materials themselves.
• Different expectations of evangelism - this handout considers the different expectations we might have of new Christians, maturing Christians, group leaders, overall leaders and evangelists when it comes to evangelism. ​
• Five Thresholds to Faith - a summary building on the work of Shaupp and Evert's excellent book, Pathways to Jesus, on the five thresholds people often cross on the way to faith, and how we can best connect with them at each threshold.
• Prayer and Evangelism - a guide to praying about sharing our faith with suggested prayers and ideas on what to pray.
• Ideas for Model, Order and Mobilise - on this Padlet board we’ve placed loads of resource links and ideas to help us model sharing faith as leaders, order our churches around evangelism, mobilise our congregations to share the faith and identify and release evangelists and pioneers. 

Papers

For those who would like to explore evangelism in a little greater depth we have written several papers.

• The Theological Rationale for Evangelism Explores the biblical and theological basis for evangelism.
• Typology of Terms Explores the different terms used (mission, evangelism, evangelist and witness), what they mean and how they relate to one another. 
• Evangelism, Discipleship and Leadership Explores the relationship between evangelism, discipleship and leadership. ​
• What is the Gospel? Explores the content of the gospel in our contemporary context. 
• The Evangelism Challenge Explores the challenges at the heart of sharing our faith today. 

Here are a range of links to other material you might find helpful.

• Lead On articles on Keeping Evangelism Central in church life (Dave Male) and Ten Ways to Keep a Church Focused on Evangelism (John Coyne).
• A blog post by Ed Stetzer on the importance of modelling evangelism as a leader.
• Three needs for global mission post COVID video by Michael Oh.
• Michael Harvey talks about how to keep a church focused on mission during lockdown, an approach he calls Acorn. 
• Rebecca Manley-Pippert speaks about what are the typical fears people have when sharing the faith, what are the challenges in the 21st century, and what Christians need to be effective witnesses.
• Tim Keller speaks about evangelism in the 21st century, with a particular focus on evangelism in cities.
• Michael Ots speaks about why asking questions is so helpful in evangelism.

Do let us know of useful online articles, podcast and videos you find helpful.

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