Toward the end of Billy Graham’s stadium events, Billy came to Cincinnati where Steve Sjogren was pastoring! As part of the steering committee, he was tagged to lead an outreach into the commu
Mark 1:16-17 (NIV)
Jesus Calls His First Disciples
As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish fo
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Working with a group of new people and need some conversation starters? Break the ice and get to know people better by selecting several of these get-to-kno
Read more…The First Move (Sharing Your Faith)
(Sermon by Milton Bost)
One evening, back around 1971, I got up the courage to call a girl named Carla that I was attracted to. Back then the phone was in our living room and my Dad was sitting i
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Leading People to their own Discovery
Verhey explains the Conversation Continuum ~ a key to building relationships that produce disciplemaking disciples who have Gospel-enlightening conversations with
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Intentional Evangelism As The Church
Pastor Milton Bost
These are our marching orders:
Matthew 28:18-20 (NKJV) 18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in hea
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“THIS IS THE FUTURE FOR REACHING PEOPLE.”
BILLY GRAHAM
Toward the end of Billy Graham’s stadium events, Billy came to Cincinnati where Steve Sjogren was pastoring! As part of the steering committee, he was tagged to lead an outreach into the commu
Evangelistic Suffering
Excerpt from "The Fellowship of The Suffering"
Have you ever seen a book on evangelistic suffering? We know plenty of why books on suffering and
some theological treatises on “how God could let this happen,” but nothing on “
Excerpt from "The Fellowship of The Suffering
Another tension we commonly hear people express concerns the challenge of trying to obey both Jesus’ Second Great Commandment, “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:39), and Jesus’ Great Commissi
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Read more…The Prayer-Shaped Disciple by Dan R. Crawford
Chapter 16: Beyond for Evangelism–As You Go . . . Pray
Reading of the Acts of the Apostles you will easily note the evangelistic growth of the early church. The expansion of the c
Read more…From the soon to be released (December, 2016) book
"The Whole Church: Becoming an Incarnational Church
by Lynn Cory
Planting a Church with a Neighboring Approach:
Joe White- Neighborhood Church- Fresno, California
Neighborhood Church is not your
Read more…Christians today face the challenge of sharing truth (with grace) in a society betting the ranch on its humanistic redefinitions of Truth, Justice, Identity and Morality – definitions that run directly
Our churches are often suffering from a lack of fully-formed disciples because, in part, there is a large divide in our thinking --- a divide between evangelism (the announcing that God has made a way back to him) and discipleship (the intentional g
Read more…Lost People Matter To God
Luke 15
Thom Rainer, President and CEO of LifeWay, has done a great amount of research in regard to the church and the Christian faith. He is the author of several books and has served as both pastor and teacher in the Sout
Read more…He sees you not as just another neighbor or co-worker. He has heard you acknowledge a strong belief in Jesus Christ as someone real and special to
Phil Miglioratti's interview with Alan Briggs, author of Staying is the New Going
Alan, I see your position description is "multiplying pastor" ... How does that indicate your position and your passion?
I get to spend a majority of my energy du
Read more…I believe that this article gives words to things we intuitively know, but maybe reluctant to acknowledge. It gives us a creative perspective on the "Love2020" or the author's "Zip Code Presence" strategy, and the in-road to emerging generations,
Read more…10/22 NEIGHBORLY Just being neighborly... Singer JIMMY NEEDHAM tells of a recent opportunity he had to share Christ with a man who attended church much of his life. |