Table of contents
Growing Your Church Through Evangelism and Outreach
These books, originally published by Leadership Journal, offer deep dives on pressing issues of ministry and leadership from veteran ministry experts like Eugene Peterson, Fred Smith, Marshall Shelley, and others.
- Introduction
- 1 Preparing Your Church to Evangelize
- 2 Giving People Time and Space
- 3 Reaching the “Happy-Thinking Pagan”
- 4 Opening the Closed American Mind
- 5 Making Worship Visitor Friendly
- 6 The Gospel for Generation X
- 7 What It Takes to Reach Men
- 8 How to Reach the Premarital Couple
- 9 A Game Plan for the Athletically Inclined
- 10 A Strategy for Suburbanites
- 11 How to Understand the Rural Mind-set
- 12 Speaking to the Secular Mind
- 13 Preaching Evangelistically
- 14 Making the Invitation Compelling
- 15 Opening the Bible for Seekers
- 16 The Numbers Game
- 17 Our Sufficiency for Outreach
- 19 Confession of an Evangelistically Impaired Pastor
- 20 Ordaining Every Member
- 21 Incorporating People on the Move
- 26 Keeping Lay Workers Fresh
- 23 Maintaining Momentum
- 24 Ministry to Newcomers
- 25 Ministry to Missing Members
- 26 Ministry to Up-and-Outers
- 27 Ministry to Multiple Generations
- 28 Unlikely Allies
- 29 What It Takes to Stay Downtown
- 30 Pastor to the Community
The words evangelism and outreach often evoke guilt and anxiety. Church members feel guilty because they think they should do more of both. But the thought of doing more makes them anxious. Few people feel confident going into “all the world.”
How can church leaders instill passion for evangelism? How can they help their churches look outward?
Growing Your Church Through Evangelism and Outreach is not filled with “shoulds” and “oughts” but with grace and hope. Its authors, graduates of the evangelism-and-outreach school of hard knocks, write out of experience. They’ve found what works. They’ve helped grow churches through evangelism and outreach. Now, in a hard-hitting line up, are thirty chapters of expert advice.
