According to Gray, barriers aren’t walls; they’re invitations. When you’re lit up with love, you know that barriers are opportunities to press deeper into Christ and rely on the Holy Spirit’s power. The biggest barrier to sharing our faith is …
According to Gray, barriers aren’t walls; they’re invitations. When you’re lit up with love, you know that barriers are opportunities to press deeper into Christ and rely on the Holy Spirit’s power. The Barrier of Inadequacy Most of the time …
According to Gray, these barriers aren’t walls; they’re invitations. When you’re lit up with love, you know that barriers are opportunities to press deeper into Christ and rely on the Holy Spirit’s power. The Barrier of Indifference Sadly, many of …
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Want to start at the beginning of this series? Start at the first post in the series. This post dives into Barrier #5. It’s based on Lifeway Research and a framework created by Ken Boa and featured in his book, …
Read moreDon’t Let the Power of Shame Silence You. Do This Instead.
According to Gray, these barriers aren’t walls; they’re invitations. When you’re lit up with love, you know that barriers are opportunities to press deeper into Christ and rely on the Holy Spirit’s power. The Barrier of Time Many of us …
If sharing the gospel with other people is meant to be a way of life for a disciple of Jesus, why do most of us not share our faith? Lifeway Research offers some insight from their study of unchurched Americans: …
Read moreJesus Isn’t a Product We’re Selling (and Other Evangelism No-No’s)
You spend nearly half your waking hours with the people at your job. How can you influence them for Christ? My first attempts at sharing my faith were dismal failures. I was the classic Bible-thumper, the gospel grenadier. On one …
Some Christians who want to do what is right—who want to witness effectively—have wrong assumptions. Eventually, this can be devastating. And when you put fear and wrong facts together, you find Christians who really wind up in a pickle. They …
As followers of Christ, we certainly thrive when discipleship and evangelism work synergistically in our lives. God created us for both! Sometimes, however, we misunderstand the relationship between discipleship and evangelism and therefore perceive them as mutually exclusive. I think …
What new strategies will we need to bring the gospel to a rapidly changing world? by Donald McGilchrist The band of eleven weary but elated disciples gathered on the side of a mountain in Galilee, all but overwhelmed by the past …