What Is Evangelism?
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Evangelism as a Community Project
By Joel Kurz | 9Marks Journal: Evangelism | 02.06.2024Personal evangelism should not look like lone-ranger Christianity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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