Disciples Who Hear God's Voice

The season of Lent starts February 18 and ends on Easter Sunday, April 5. As a church, we will be joining together in fasting.  We will choose a type of fast that works for us individually, and we will fast from Monday through Saturday, and break the fast each week on Sunday as we celebrate together.  For more information on the theology of Fasting, please watch this message called Sermon on the Mount: When you Fast   Here are two options to choose from for a fast that you can dive into for this season of Lent.

The biggest question in Power Evangelism is the title of this post: What if you pray for a stranger, but they don't get healed? I am both happy and sad to say that I have figured this one out the hard way. On Friday, February 6, at the Remnant Radio Conference in San Diego, I'm going to teach on Power Evangelism and answer this question, but here are the cliff notes of what I'll say.  When it comes to healing in Power Evangelism, there seem to be two approaches: Healing as an Opener and Healing as a Sign.  Healing as an Opener I don't personally take this approach often, but this is what most people think of when they imagine Power Evangelism. This looks like offering to pray for healing as your introduction to the conversation. Understandably, if the person actually gets healed right after you say "hello," it's going to be a pretty easy transition to preaching the Gospel. Here's what you can say to get into it: "I'm a Christian, and I pray f...

 I hope everyone is warm. I hate that we had to cancel the Sunday service, but I went ahead and recorded a short announcement that I want you all to be aware of, and I recorded the sermon that would have otherwise preached.  I wanted to have something for all of us to watch while we're cooped up at home, and I also wanted to stay on track for my sermon schedule. Usually a sermon schedule is not too important, but I really wanted to share some specific stories THIS week, and I really wanted to speak on a specific topic next week. I didn't think they would work to postpone them a week.  The sermon is now available to watch on our Youtube Channel (9am, January 25). Click the picture, or the link below to see it.  Click here to see the sermon

***Below is the next part in a series of posts I'm making about Evangelism, but if you're seeing this post on Saturday, Jan 24, then you know we're snowed in! I said we'd make the final decision about cancelling church at sundown on Saturday, but the writing is on the walls that we're obviously going to have to cancel our church service on Sunday. Anyway, back to our regularly scheduled programming*** Real-life Evangelism in action (click to see the video) One of the many difficulties people have with going out and doing random street evangelism is that people often struggle to know what to say. How do you start a random conversation about Jesus, and what do you do AFTER you start the conversation? This post will cover what I call The Approach (how to start a conversation) and The Drive (how to get to your destination). Over the last 16 years, I've gone out and started thousands of random evangelism conversations, and I've figured out a few things that work ...

The Power Team - Some time in the 90s The more I've thought about evangelism, and how to get people rolling in evangelism, the more I've decided that it takes focusing on 4 things. The first focus is Developing the Right Mindset . Even though it's a little cringy, the other three focuses also start with "M"s, but I'll roll those out in other posts.  For now, we'll focus on Developing the Mindset. There are a number of mindset shifts we may have to make in order to do evangelism:  Believing that evangelism is for everyone and not just for the pros  Understanding that the point of evangelism is not to win arguments or even to look knowledgable but to plant seeds of the Gospel. Sometimes, you successfully plant seeds of truth even when you get stumped. Sometimes, you plant those same seeds even when you pray for a sign or something that DOESN'T happen.  Coming to terms with the fact that Evangelism is just hard. This is the one I want to focus on today. A...

In February, this year, I've been invited to lead a break out session at the upcoming Remnant Radio Conference in San Diego. I'll be teaching on Power Evangelism. As many of you know, I've been doing what I call random street evangelism for many years, and over that time, I've tried a lot of things, made some mistakes, and learned some lessons. Now, I'm trying to put it all together into a teaching that can help others go from wherever they are to feeling confident to get out there and share the gospel. Last year, I even started writing a book about evangelism, and I discovered that there was almost too much to say. I struggled to figure out where to focus, since pretty much anything could happen in an evangelism encounter. Prepping for the Power Evangelism breakout session has actually helped a ton with the focus. I've decided, I'm not going to try to teach on any apologetic arguments since there are many resources out there for that. Instead, I'm focus...