In part two of our conversation, I will be speaking with Rebecca Pippert about:

* How to transition conversation into a Spiritual conversation?

* How to not let the opportunities present in our global pandemic pass by - and how God is using it to renew the church and excise evangelism.

* How to address the defences of our unsaved friends before they do!

* Some great questions that can help in our evangelistic conversations

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In part one of our conversation, I will be speaking with Rebecca Pippert about:

* How seeker Bible studies might be more effective than we realize and a vital component of evangelism that we might have been skipping over

* How evangelism has changed in post-truth culture

* On how we often sacrifice truth when we focus on relationship, and can potentially sacrifice relationship when we focus on cold-hard-truth… and how to thread this needle with proper model of Biblical Evangelism.

In part two of our conversation, I will be speaking with Doug Shaupp - the National Director of Evangelism for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship - about:

The difference between Huddled communities, Witnessing Communities, and Conversion Communities, and how to identify which type of community you are in.

We’ll then talk about how you transform a huddled community into a witnessing community, and into a conversion community

Some practical pro-tips that you can implement to kick start your personal evangelistic effectiveness

The most effective area that churches should invest into to promote change

How to recognize the God moments that we are walking past every day.

In todays episode I will be speaking with Doug Shaupp - the National Director of Evangelism for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. In part one of our conversation, we’re going to talk about:

What the ‘5 Thresholds of Post-Modern Conversion’ are

How knowledge of these 5 thresholds can make us more effective evangelists 

Whether living a moral life and waiting for people to ask you about your faith is an effective approach 

Questions we can ask to more effectively engage in evangelistic conversations

How we can tell when someone is getting curious about Christianity?

How to help someone cross the final threshold into faith in Jesus.

In todays episode I will be speaking with Bill Hogg, who is the Director for Message Canada. He has a long history with evangelism and equipping people to share their faith, and makes me laugh every time we talk. In part 2 of our conversation we’re going to talk about:

* The Spiritual gift of the Evangelist - and why it’s undervalued

* whether church planting is still the most effective way to reach the lost

* on whether the church is actually reaching the disengaged with the gospel

* how churches can grow through evangelizing the lost and not just shuffling sheep

* how the average congregant can help to change the evangelistic pulse of the congregation

In todays episode I will be speaking with Bill Hogg, who is the Director for Message Canada. He has a long history with evangelism and equipping people to share their faith, and makes me laugh every time we talk. In part 1 of our conversation we’re going to talk about:

how evangelism strategies have changed in the last couple generations

what evangelists in the 21st century can learn from the efforts of the 20th century

the modern effectiveness and place of door to door evangelism

and whether large scale evangelism is a dead medium

Today on the show we’re going to be talking about:

* why global missions is more accessible than it has ever been before

* how the gospel moves us to downward mobility rather than upward mobility

* how to engage strategically on mission right where we live

* and we’ll conclude by talking about a few lessons we can learn from Move In and apply to our lives regardless of where we live

In todays conversation we’ll chat with Dr. Robert Tuttle. He has taught at Fuller, Garret Evangelical Seminary, and was the professor of Evangelism at Asbury Theological Seminary. He’s recently authored a book called -

In Our Time: The Life and Ministry of E. Stanley Jones -which we are going to talk a out in our conversation today.

We cover a lot of ground, but the highlights are definitely:

* how Mahatma Gandhi taught E.Stanley Jones to be a better evangelist

* Why Jones was such an effective missionary in such a pluralistic culture, and what we can learn from Jones’ method

* The kind of evangelistic invitations that the church needs to learn to give today.

* What questions the culture is asking that our evangelistic presentations are lacking…

* and much more!

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In todays conversation we’ll chat with Don Everts who is a writer for Lutheran Hour Ministries, the teaching pastor at Bonhomme Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, Missouri. He has also been a speaker and trainer for Alpha Ministries, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and regularly speaks on evangelism all over the place. He has authored many books including Jesus with Dirty Feet, I Once Was Lost: What Postmodern Skeptics Taught us about their Path to Jesus, as well as The Reluctant Witness… which we’re going to be unpacking a bit today. In part 2 of our conversation we’ll chat about:

* The 5 Markers of eager conversationalists.

* Some practical tools to help you grow confidence and skill at sharing the gospel

* How pastors can begin to change the evangelistic pulse of their congregations and kickstart church wide evangelism.

* What questions the culture is asking that our evangelistic presentations are lacking…

* and much more!

More at: theactivatorpodcast.com

In todays conversation we’ll chat with Don Everts who is a writer for Lutheran Hour Ministries, the teaching pastor at Bonhomme Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, Missouri. He has also been a speaker and trainer for Alpha Ministries, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and regularly speaks on evangelism all over the place. He has authored many books including Jesus with Dirty Feet, I Once Was Lost: What Postmodern Skeptics Taught us about their Path to Jesus, as well as The Reluctant Witness… which we’re going to be unpacking a bit today. In part 1 of our conversation we’ll chat about:

-What the stats reveal about the state of evangelism today

-The importance of self evaluation - and how this was a historical marker of the church

-How many spiritual conversations the average Christian is actually having

-Some questions we can ask ourselves in order to  evaluate our own witness

-and we wrap up by discussing how Pastors can stir up evangelistic zeal in their congregations.