February 12, 2005

Evangelism 101

This week we have been enjoying a missionary conference at Broadview Baptist Church in North Lauderdale, Florida. As part of the conference, we got together with members of the church this morning and went to a nearby flea market, where we spent about three hours passing out tracts and witnessing to people.

This is what missions is all about, and I am surprised that more churches do not include something like this in their missionary conferences. This is only the second conference in our two-and-a-half year deputation ministry that has included some form of evangelism in the program.

Before we went to the flea market, we watched a video at the church by Larry Moyer, of EvanTell ministries. They have some of the best evangelism training that I have seen to date, and put together some of the best, most attractive tracts I have ever encountered.

One of the strengths of the video we watched was the practial way in which they dealt with one of the greatest obstacles to witnessing--how to turn an ordinary conversation onto spiritual things. I and those with me at the flea market were able to put what we learned into practice, and the results were some interested listeners.

To my knowlege nobody accepted Christ there this morning, but the seed was definitely planted in several people's minds.

Update 1: For those of us who minister to Portuguese speaking people, EvanTell has excellent tracts available in that language.

Update 2: I have started a thread over at the forum for people to share information about personal evangelism tools they find helpful.

Posted by Andrew on February 12, 2005 9:05 PM.