What Is Evangelism?
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.
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.
Must Every Christian Evangelize?
By Tim Beougher | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 01.15.2024Church members sometimes wonder if they should just leave evangelism to the “professionals.”
They Will Listen: Evangelistic Confidence in a Cynical Age
By Paul Billings | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 01.12.2024Whatever your experience has told you about evangelism, take hope from Acts 28:28.
Evangelism and the Church
Connecting Evangelism and Church
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 01.17.2024Is evangelism an individual sport or a team sport? Really, it’s both.
Evangelistic Expository Preaching
By Mark Dever | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024The converted and the unconverted need preaching in which the fullness of God’s Word is exposed and the atoning work of Christ explored.
Addressing Nonbelievers in Corporate Worship
By Jamie Southcombe | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024To what extent should we address and acknowledge non-Christians when leading, preaching, and praying?
How to Equip the Church for Evangelism
By Brad Wheeler | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024If evangelism is the expectation of every disciple, then every disciple needs to be equipped in evangelism.
Three Ingredients for an Evangelistic Church Culture
By Mike McKinley | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024It’s better for your church to have an evangelistic culture than just a series of evangelistic programs.
Reaching the “Converted”
By Bob Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024Some of our most obvious evangelistic opportunities are with the people who are members of our churches.
Building a Culture of Evangelism Takes Time, So Be Patient and Get to Work
By C. Greggsen, S. Emadi | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024Programs come and go. A culture endures.
Why People in Your Church Don’t Do Evangelism—and One Really Important Thing to Do About It
By Isaac Adams | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024Even though many Christians at your church genuinely want to make God known, they struggle in evangelism. Have you ever wondered why that is?
Evangelism in Children’s and Youth Ministry
By Mitch Kimbrell | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024Every person in your church—from unborn babies to those who come in by walker or cane—is conceived in Adam and needs to be born again in the second Adam.
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.
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?
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.
Growing in Evangelism
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.
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.
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.
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.
What Place Do Gospel Tracts Have in Evangelism Today?
By Alberto Puente | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024God continues to amaze me as he uses something as simple as a tract to introduce people to the gospel and to our church.
Evangelism on the Ground
The Gospel for a Gay Friend
By Garrett Kell | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024Every Christian is a living miracle. If Jesus can save you, he can save anyone.
Evangelism in a Post-Christian Culture
By Elliot Clark | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024Despite the “newness” of what we’re facing in this country, it’s not all that new in the life of the church.
Evangelism as a Community Project
By Joel Kurz | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024Personal evangelism should not look like lone-ranger Christianity.
Evangelism in the Workplace
By Ashok Nachnani | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024We should expect the Lord to answer our prayers and grant us opportunities to speak of Christ. God has put you where you are for a purpose.
Evangelizing Prosperity Gospel Disciples
By Godwin Sathianathan | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024The Christian life isn’t doing more for Jesus to get more from Jesus. The Christian life is forsaking more for Jesus to gain more of Jesus.
How to Evangelize Cross Culturally
By John Folmar | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024Here are three lessons one church has learned living and ministering in an ultra-multi-cultural environment.
Evangelism Across Economic Boundaries
By Mike McKinley | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024Here are a few things one pastor has learned from leading a church that is trying to reach out to folks from different backgrounds.
How Hospitality Helps Evangelism
By Sam Crites | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024The gospel is a story of hospitality—of someone sacrificially loving strangers that they might become family.
Evangelizing the Nations at Home
By Andy Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024You might be surprised what nations God has brought to your doorstep.
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.
Evangelism Stories
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.
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.
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.
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