For over 30 years, my friend Greg Koukl has taught Christians how to engage with people across worldview lines by asking questions. His first book Tactics has equipped thousands of Christians to communicate with wisdom and passion. This month, Koukl is releasing a follow-up to that book, entitled Street Smarts: Using Questions to Answer Christianity’s Toughest Challenges.
More than 10,000 people from England and Wales poured into London’s ExCeL convention center Saturday to hear evangelist Franklin Graham deliver the life-changing message of the gospel as part of his “God Loves You Tour” that includes stops in two major cities.
You see, what events like Faith and Family nights do so well is create low-barrier opportunities for people to unite around something they care about and honor God in the process. That doesn’t have to stop at baseball, though.
What if the best solution to the lack of diversity in our churches is not changing how the services look on Sunday but rather being more intentional about who we partner with to do ministry on the other days of the week? What if our churches started to see other communities of faith as potential partners rather than rivals? And what if we looked well beyond our own little slice of the city in the process?
If you feel like the Lord is calling your church to become more involved in college ministry, for example, don’t just assume that God wants you to rush off and start a Bible study aimed at bringing university students to your church.
For biblical Christians to change our secularized culture, we cannot keep doing the same thing while expecting different results. When I went to Cuba on various mission trips, it would have been vain for me to speak in English to people who only understood Spanish. Talking louder would do no good. I needed to speak their language to impact their lives.
The good news is, God’s Spirit knows the spiritual condition of every soul on this planet. It’s as though he were an attorney persuading the jury to choose his client. He calls us as witnesses to the stand when we fit best into his strategy. Then he leads us to give the testimony he can best use to win the case.
Rick Warren and Christine Caine announced this week that the Amsterdam2023 EveryONE conference in the Netherlands will launch an “era of unprecedented evangelism with the vision that every person on earth will hear the Gospel message by 2033.”
For many who follow Jesus in the 10/40 Window (the western rim of North Africa to Japan, China to Indonesia), persecution is a reality of life, and 95 percent of the population is unevangelized.
A Texas high school valedictorian is gaining national attention after she presented the Gospel during her graduation speech and invited those in attendance to become a Christian and make Jesus the "King" of their life.
Victoria Mandylor said it wasn't Bieber’s influence that led to her conversion, but rather his explanation of the Gospel. "I had never heard anyone just put it so simple," she recalls. Mandylor explained that Bieber said, "'He is the Son of God. That died for you.' Just as simple as that. 'He died for you.'"
Over 9,000 people heard the gospel preached to them during evangelist Franklin Graham's "God Loves You" tour stop in Maryland on Tuesday.
