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Training for Evangelism
by Phil Olson (The Sider Center on Ministry and Public Policy)

Resource Type: This 9-page article is provided by the Sider Center on Ministry and Public Policy, which is aimed at educating and equipping leaders to do holistic ministry, to work for social transformation, and to challenge others to do the same.

Main Audience: This resource is helpful for pastors and urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">church leaders interested in training their congregations to effectively reach out to their communities through evangelism. It is useful for both large and small churches.



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This thoughtful 9-page article by former Word & Deed Network director Rev. Phil Olson offers reflections on the current state of evangelism in churches and addresses reasons why people do not engage in evangelism. He offers insight on the problems with the type of activities that pass as “evangelism” and provides recommendations for developing evangelism methods and messages that are more closely tied to holistic ministry.



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Help for Churches and Deaf, ASL Schools

For more information see:

www.see2talk.blogspot.com

Distance Learning, Building Understanding between Cultures, Evangelism are all possible through the Videophone. Churches can share urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">church services with another country, teachers can teach overseas each day without leaving their office, children in one place can see and talk to other classes, TV to TV, monitor to monitor or videophone to videophone, simple to use, no extra cost, unlimited international urbanministry.org/tag/calling" class="" title="Vocation/Calling Resources">calling!

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Evangelism Types

Tool #10 Evangelism Types

Use this table as a tool to investigate your urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">church's evangelism type and nature of evangelistic activity.

Jeremy Del Rio: By Any Means Necessary - Free Hot Dogs and Youth Evangelism: The Love Express, July 2001

"Cross the street," I thought. "This could get ugly."

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Jeremy Del Rio: Collective Action - Cooperative Outreach Among Christian Groups at NYU: Student Leadership Journal, Spring 2001

Have you ever felt like your best evangelism efforts resulted in wasted time and energy? I have. During my undergraduate days at New York University (Class of ’95), I served on InterVarsity’s executive urbanministry.org/leadership" class="" title="Leadership Resources">leadership team for three and a half years in the capacities of outreach coordinator, small-group urbanministry.org/leadership" class="" title="Leadership Resources">leader, vice-president and president. Early in that period, we experienced those feelings time and again, and we weren’t alone.

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Christians: if you only read one book this year...

Submitted by an UrbanMinistry Blogger on Mo, 11/05/2007 - 15:28

Read Jim & Casper Go to Church. It's a rare opportunity to gain spiritual wisdom from an atheist - someone on the outside who isn't afraid to tell us all the crazy things we're doing.

I don't agree with all of Jim & Casper's observations. But if I only read books where I agreed with everything that was said, then I might as well not read books at all.

I agree with their main point, though: Jesus didn't come to this earth, live, die, and rise again so that we could have awesome urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">church services. He came to reconcile us to God, and He has committed to us the ministry of reconciliation. So let's get out there and get involved. The urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">church service should be the fueling station for believers in their lives of service, not the rock concert that makes outsiders wish they could be as cool or as saved as we are.

Casper (the friendly atheist) had one profound question which could transform our lives if we let it: "Is this really what Jesus told you guys to do?"

He is absolutely right that, though Christians often "do urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">church" in similar ways, we are all over the map in regard to how we live out our faith. Sometimes it seems like our worship is not an expression of true faith, but a substitute for it, a pleasant routine.

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Jeremy Del Rio: Beyond Passion - Living a Crucified Life

Two years ago, the evangelical world eagerly awaited the release of what was being lauded as "the greatest evangelistic tool of our time." The anticipation built as a brilliant marketing campaign invited pastors and urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">church leaders to pre-screen Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ movie, and its trailer spread virally online. The supposed anti-Semitism controversy notwithstanding, evangelicals and Catholics worldwide pre-purchased tickets for opening night.

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Review Your Church’s Evangelism

Tool #26: Review Your urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">Church’s Evangelism


Are any of the following true of your urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">church's evangelism ministries? Use the attached document to assess your urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">church's evangelism.

 

 

Jeremy Del Rio: Things We Don't Talk About: Tri-State Voice, February 2005

"Mama, I never meant to hurt you, I never meant to make you cry, but tonight I'm cleanin' out my closet." - Eminem, in Cleanin' out My Closet

He trusted her. That's what little brothers do, so when his eight year old sister and her friend called him into a field, four year old Eric went. There he entered a world without boundaries. Beginning that afternoon, for the next six or seven years his sister and her friends touched him, made him touch them, violated him.

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Jeremy Del Rio: Billy Graham to Local Youth - "Get Real": Tri-State Voice, April 2005

"Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your might to all who are to come." (Ps. 71:18)


[the Get Real characters]

Answer: Five million. Question: How many young people under 19 live in metro New York?

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Strategies for Taking Back Our Cities

Submitted by an UrbanMinistry Blogger on Mi, 05/27/2009 - 18:25

Economic crisis has provided a wonderful opportunity for the urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">church to arise and shine as never before. The State of California is considered bankrupt and continues to impoverish local government as one hand robs the other in order to stay afloat. The voice of the enemy has raged against any godly influence in society. The voice of the enemy has demanded that God be removed from our schools, government and even our homes as many have demanded, "Silence the voice of the Christians!" and "Separation of urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">church and state!" Amidst the cry from those demanding the right to live under the enemy's curse, God is now turning that around, and He is separating the urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">church from the state she's been in. He is turning His churches inside out and forcing them into the streets.

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Jeremy Del Rio: Things We Don't Talk About: Tri-State Voice, February 2005

"Mama, I never meant to hurt you, I never meant to make you cry, but tonight I'm cleanin' out my closet." - Eminem, in Cleanin' out My Closet

He trusted her. That's what little brothers do, so when his eight year old sister and her friend called him into a field, four year old Eric went. There he entered a world without boundaries. Beginning that afternoon, for the next six or seven years his sister and her friends touched him, made him touch them, violated him.

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Review Your Church’s Evangelism

Tool #26: Review Your urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">Church’s Evangelism


Are any of the following true of your urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">church's evangelism ministries? Use the attached document to assess your urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">church's evangelism.

 

 

Evangelism Types

Tool #10 Evangelism Types

Use this table as a tool to investigate your urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">church's evangelism type and nature of evangelistic activity.

South Asia Native Missionary Alliance (SANMA)

Submitted by an UrbanMinistry Blogger on Mo, 07/21/2008 - 16:30

Child labor, urbanministry.org/poverty_homelessness" class="" title="Poverty Resources">poverty, maltreated families... we hear these terms every day on TV, on Youtube, from teachers, ANYWHERE. But what DO we do about it? What CAN we do about it? HOW do these things affect us?

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Personal Evangelism Training for Urban Ministry

THE TIME IS NOW! CALLING ALL SAINTS!

Submitted by an UrbanMinistry Blogger on Mo, 04/21/2008 - 17:24

I was speaking with a gentleman at one of the shelters in Newark, NJ that I ministered at a couple of days ago and he shared with me that he had just gotten out of the hospital from attempting to kill himself for the 8th time.  I submitted to him that he had so many reasons to live. He responded with ‘I have even more reasons not to live.’ Another young lady that I recently spoke with approached me with tears in her eyes as she described how she feels that there is no hope for her. She has been struggling with drug addiction for years and although she is tired of living with this disease, she recognizes the grip that it has on her and she is in despair and afraid for her life. While ministering in the prisons

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Help for Churches and Deaf, ASL Schools

For more information see:

www.see2talk.blogspot.com

Distance Learning, Building Understanding between Cultures, Evangelism are all possible through the Videophone. Churches can share urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">church services with another country, teachers can teach overseas each day without leaving their office, children in one place can see and talk to other classes, TV to TV, monitor to monitor or videophone to videophone, simple to use, no extra cost, unlimited international urbanministry.org/tag/calling" class="" title="Vocation/Calling Resources">calling!

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A Holistic Perspective on Evangelism

A Holistic Perspective on Evangelism

How holistic is your urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">church's understanding and practice of evangelism? The attached document asks: "What is Evangelism?" and offers a theological explanation of a Holistic interpretation of evangelism in your urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">church.

Developing Holistic, Relational Evangelism

Developing Holistic, Relational Evangelism

While evangelistic events that reach groups (such as revivals and seeker services) are
important ingredients in a urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">church's evangelism strategy, research consistently shows that most
effective faith-sharing takes place in the context of relationships.

How can you help your urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">congregation embrace an understanding and practice of evangelism that heals wounds, rebuilds relationships, and restores hope? The following document explains that there are three key evangelism steps to teach your urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">congregation: Pray, listen, and look.

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