Category Archives: Evangelism

Personal Witnessing: Part 5

By Scott Pittman | Published: August 2, 2009

Plan Two: Marking a New Testament for Witnessing. There are three basic steps in marking and using a New Testament to share the Gospel. First, you mark the essential point, such as God loves us. Second, you underline and read the essential verse. Third, you tell the person what you want him to hear about [...]

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What’s a Good News Wagon?

By Scott Pittman | Published: July 17, 2009

Here’s an idea from the “Embrace Baltimore” evangelism team:  Good News Wagons! The trailers are made available to area churches packed with everything you need to provide food and fun for a great get-together and/or outreach.  Possible events include:  Outreach in apartment complexes Outreach into manufactured homes complexes New subdivisions within a church field Inner city ministries VBS [...]

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Witnessing in Another World

By Scott Pittman | Published: March 31, 2009

As a missionary in Brazil I was amazed how people could believe, profess, and practice things that were incompatible. It was illogical to me that someone could profess to believe in God while at the same time pray to a saint to gain penance or offer a sacrifice to Imanja, the goddess of the sea, [...]

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Bridges of God

By Scott Pittman | Published: March 27, 2009

A major contribution to mission strategy is Donald A. McGavran’s 1955 classic book, The Bridges of God. In it he presents a concept still prevalent in today’s thinking: that of building bridges or relationships between believers and those without Christ.1 What exactly did McGavran mean by that? He observed that most mission strategies of his [...]

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A Worthwhile Visit

By Scott Pittman | Published: March 18, 2009

In 1 Thessalonians, chapter one, Paul reminisces with the new believers of Thessalonica about his visit with them. He rejoices over their receiving the gospel in the power of the Holy Spirit, their growing faith, and their witness and testimony throughout the region (v.8). Noteworthy is the fact that this flourishing spiritual activity was prompted by Paul’s “visit.” We don’t [...]

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Should our Church Go Overseas?

By Scott Pittman | Published: March 9, 2009

YES! Here are a few reasons why: The Evangelism Gap If you do the math, the large gap between the world population count and the total number of Evangelical Christians world-wide is astounding. There are over 6 billion people on planet earth and by the most lenient estimates, Evangelicals number approximately 600 million, leaving 5.5 [...]

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