After six parts to the ‘because the cross was made of dogwood’ series I’ve racked up quite a few questions about what the whole dogwood thing has to do with evangelism. Well, today you find out. As many of you know, I have a company that I co-operate with fellow minister Randy Wray that we…
Category Archives: Evangelism
Because The Cross Was Made Of Dogwood – Thoughts On Evangelism, Part 6
Sorry for the brief hiatus in this series. My oldest son graduated from high school this week, so my schedule was fairly full, as was my house. But we’re back at it now, so jump in the conversation. When I think about churches and their evangelism programs, I often find myself asking ‘what are we…
Because The Cross Was Made Of Dogwood – Thoughts On Evangelism, Part 5
Thanks for hanging on with us as we’ve covered some of the ramblings of my mind. The comments and feedback have been great. If you haven’t, please check out the other posts in this series and let us all know what you think. We’re going to turn the direction of this series a little and…
Because The Cross Was Made Of Dogwood – Thoughts On Evangelism, Part 4
I know this looks a little long, but there’s a story at the end that you’ll want to hang around for. Thanks again for dropping by! The feedback on this series has been great. I know you’re not all commenting, but please feel free to jump into the discussion by leaving comments below. I won’t…
Because The Cross Was Made Of Dogwood – Thoughts On Evangelism, Part 2
Married to the idea of getting people to ‘come to church’ is the idea that ‘coming to church’ is synonymous with behavior modification. It’s sort of like we think church attendance is the silver bullet for all kinds of moral ills. This is an error that churches and Christians have made for some time. We’ve…
Because The Cross Was Made of Dogwood – Thoughts On Evangelism, Part 1
One of the popular topics Among church leadership has to do with evangelism and it’s effectiveness. I speak with church leaders regularly about church growth and church health, and I’m convinced that 90% of the time when a church leader says they want to evangelize what they are really saying is that they want the…
Bringing the Good News
As any of you who’ve taken just a bit of Greek or has listened to a preacher who has tried to use it, you’ll know that we get the English word "evangelism" from the Greek word "euangelizo". This is a compound word in Greek, formed by the prefix "eu", which means good or excellent, and…
Evangelism – Why?
I’m reading a new book from Group Publishing on outreach entitled "Irresistible Evangelism" by Sjogren, Ping, and Pollack. I’ve just started it, but am really excited about the content so far. The opening chapter asks the same question I wanted to start with in today’s post on evangelism. Why do it? I think this…
Outreach Ministry – Part 2
My first experiences in outreach were of trying to uphold the established tradition of congregational evangelism. I’m sure we’re all pretty familiar with the guilt ridden response to sermons that make us question our commitment to Christ. Those sermons are good for getting us to want to baptize our co-workers or give money to orphanages. …
Outreach Ministry – Part 1
My first full time ministry position was an Involvement and Outreach position. It was my job to catch ‘em and keep ‘em. There are new concepts that describe the position in a way that is supposed to be "seeker" sensative, that meaning that they won’t offend the non-Christian person you are supposed to work with. …
