Evangelism (Page 16)
‘Preach Like a Calvinist, Pray Like an Arminian – If you’re a loser!
Great little post here on avoiding some of the sayings in Christian land which confuse people about the doctrines of grace. Please take some time to read it here. I will be posting further on the doctrines of grace and how they relate and motivate Christ-centred ministry and church planting.
Showcasing Niddrie Community Church
For the past 10 days, I’ve been putting together this short video that showcases some of the work of Niddrie Community Church. It includes: What Niddrie’s like What the church is doing How the gospel is impacting lives What our plans are for the future It’s 5½ minutes long. I’m pretty sick of the video by now, but I hope you enjoy it!…
Kill your programmes and grow your church!
I have been thinking a lot about what we are doing as a community here in Niddrie. We are constantly busy and there always seems to be something going on. I like to tell myself that it is all ‘important gospel ministry’ but sometimes I am not so sure. We try to keep things like ‘meetings’ down to a minimum but some are still necessary for the…
Planned Spontaneity In Our ‘Word Ministry’
When we look at the NT, and the book of Acts in particular, we see that the gospel spread and the church grew through the proclamation and teaching of the ‘Word of God’ (Acts 6:7; 12:24; 19:20).That must be the basis for any and all ministry in our congregations – we must be…
‘My purpose is not to convert you’ – not evangelising people of other faiths
I found this great little article online recently. Read it because there is a lot of nonsense out there at the moment about not ‘pushing’ our faith onto people (which I agree with) but confusing that with not…
Is youth ministry biblical? PART 2
A couple of weeks ago I introduced you to an American short film called Divided. If you missed it, here’s the first post: ‘Is youth ministry biblical?‘ As promised, I’m going to take the opportunity over the next few weeks to reflect on some of the issues raised by the movie. According to the movie, ‘youth ministry’ has no basis in Scripture,…
Expositional Evangelism
Worth a read and a ponder here.
Gospel Proclamation v Social Action
interestingly being re-labelled ‘ministries of mercy’ by many in the USA. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/26484222]
Culturally Relevant Evangelism
A church you know is putting on an event with classical music, poetry recitals and then offering cheese and wine (non alcoholic of course!) afterward as a way to reach unbelievers? What is our reaction to this? Another church, in an attempt to attract unbelievers, puts on a karaoke style event with a chip supper? What is our reaction to this? The temptation, depending on…
How well do we listen?
By and large Christians like to speak. They have got something of eternal significance to say after all. Many of us are poor listeners. Many Christians don’t have many non Christian friends (or any come to that). They think they do. But they don’t. If you have been a believer for any length of time, count the number of genuine non Christian friends you have.…