Archive for the ‘Making Disciples’ Category

Prayaroundtheworld.com

Please check out this site my friend Clarke Kennedy is building: prayaroundtheworld.com. Here is part of the description of what the sight is for: This site is a tool for the body of Christ around the world. It is designed to equip individuals, churches, organizations, families, and communities with a very simple but powerful way [...]

Second Edition of Making Friends for Christ Available!

Here is the description of the book printed on the back cover: “This is not a gimmick. It is not the next modern evangelism strategy for you or your church to use for a while and then discard when the next one comes along. It is not about pretending to be friends with people to [...]

Are We Trying to Change the World?

I am intrigued by a new book by James Davison Hunter called To Change the Word: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World. I just read a summary of the book and an interview with Hunter in Christianity Today (May 2010). He argues that the common evangelical goal of changing [...]

“Apologetics is a very powerful too, but it’s ultimately janitorial. . . . You are doing no more than clearing away debris that blocks the door to faith, and ultimatley it is God’s love that has to work its way into a heart.” – Dinesh D’Souza

The Witness of Just “Being There”

“The first necessary element of inductive evangelism is that it is incarnational. Incarnation means “in flesh.”. . . As a communication strategy, incarnation means that God came here personally to earth. . . . Evangelism as incarnational begins with this concept of presence, of “being there.” Just by being there you are communicating, without saying [...]

Jesus’ Communication Strategy

Here is an excerpt from Dad’s book Making Friends for Christ: An Inductive Strategy for Personal Evangelism. You can hear Dr. Wayne McDill present the contents of the book in the seminar our church is hosting this Friday evening and Saturday morning. Check out the details here. “Since Jesus is our model for communication strategy, [...]

Making Friends for Christ Seminar

We are still making preparation for the “Making Friends for Christ” seminar. Less than two weeks away, now! Since there is nothing greater in life than loving God, loving people, and making disciples, please consider joining us for encouragement and training in loving others for Christ. This is not a gimmick. It is not insincerely [...]

Making Friends for Christ Seminar

If you are in the Boone area (or don’t mind driving), please consider attending this upcoming seminar our church is hosting: Making Friends for Christ a seminar with Dr. Wayne McDill Author and Senior Preaching Professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Friday, Feb 26, 6:30-8:30pm Saturday, Feb 27, 8:30am-12pm The banquet hall of The High [...]

They Won’t Listen!

Moses told the Israelites what God told him to say, that God would deliver them. But the Israelites did not listen. So when God told him to go talk to Pharaoh, Moses said, “The children of Israel have not heeded me. How then shall Pharaoh heed me, for I am of uncircumcised lips” (v. 12). [...]

Friendship Evangelism Seminar

My dad will be coming up to Boone at the end of February to teach a seminar called “Friendship Evangelism.” Here is the info: Friendship Evangelism a seminar with Dr. Wayne McDill Author and Senior Preaching Professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Friday, Feb 26, 6:30-8:30pm Saturday, Feb 27, 8:30am-12pm The banquet hall of The [...]