Five Reasons We Don’t Evangelize
By Mike McKinley | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024There’s no way to share the gospel if you aren’t prepared to share the gospel.
Fisherman or Fishermen? Considering the Church’s Corporate Mission
By Matt Sliger | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024When Jesus said in Matthew 4:19, “I will make you fishers of men,” do you picture an individual sitting on the edge of a pier with a rod and reel?
What If I’m Discouraged in My Evangelism?
By Zach Schlegel | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024One pastor answers five discouragements with five truths about God to help us and our churches not grow weary or lose heart in evangelism.
Reaching Our Neighbors with the Gospel
By Allen Duty | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024We won’t reach our neighbors with our theology of evangelism; we will only reach our neighbors with repentant hearts that lead us to practice what we preach.
The Whole Commission: Why Making Disciples Includes More Than Evangelism
By John Sarver | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024Christian work that stops at evangelism misunderstands not only what they’re called to, but what God is up to in the lives of his people.
How Spurgeon Got His Congregation
By Geoff Chang | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024How did Spurgeon get his church? Not as a lone ranger reaching the world with his preaching, but rather the evangelistic efforts of ordinary church members.
Evangelism as a Community Project
By Joel Kurz | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024Personal evangelism should not look like lone-ranger Christianity.
A Biblical Understanding of Evangelism
By Mark Dever | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024For all members of the church, but particularly for leaders who have the responsibility of teaching, a biblical understanding of evangelism is crucial.
Japanese Student Finds Life in Switzerland and Takes It Back Home
By Christian Schmid | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024A visitor candidly replied she was not interested in religion. But God was interested in her.
Tim Keller on Apologetics as Evangelism
By Collin Hansen | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.05.2024From this interaction of Tim Keller’s and the fruit that followed, we are encouraged to consider how we may employ a similar apologetical approach when confronting secularism’s edge in evangelism.
Pre-Evangelism: Building Relational Trenches
By Paul Billings | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 01.31.2024Do “people skills” matter in evangelism? I think they do, especially in today’s world.
Evangelism Without an Altar Call
By Aaron Menikoff | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 01.29.2024With the best of intentions, practitioners of the altar call and spontaneous baptisms have likely given many unsaved persons false confidence they know Jesus.
Evangelistic Programs or the Alternative?
By J. Mack Stiles | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 01.24.2024When we take a cold, hard look at programs, things just don’t add up.
Commend the One You Cherish: Learning Evangelism from John Piper
By David Mathis | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 01.22.2024John Piper did not become a “traveling evangelist” like his father. Yet, in God’s remarkable providence, the evangelist’s son has quietly, inconspicuously, almost counterintuitively been a surprisingly fruitful winner of souls.
Three Lessons from 234 Pastors’ Libraries
By Forrest Strickland | 01.18.2024We have 234 catalogs of ministers’ libraries in the Netherlands during the seventeenth century. Here are three lessons we ought not neglect.