How to Use Directive Questions in Personal Evangelism, Pt 2

As I wrote in my August 28, 2007 post, the having a plan for your conversation with others will help you to ask directive questions that will move the subject matter from the general to the spiritual. I use the acrostic: F.I.R.E. as a guide to help me. The “F” in FIRE is for Friend. [...]

How to Use Directive Questions in Personal Evangelism, Part 1

When asking directive questions, I usually begin with an introduction if I do not know the person. There are several acrostics that can be used to help you in your directive questioning and conversation: FIRE, CAST, FIRM (more on what they stand for later) to name a few. Some people push back against using these because [...]

The Role of Directive Questions in Personal Evangelism

Her name was Claire. She plopped down in the only other seat next to me on the plane. Shane, across the isle and up one row, and I were traveling to Atlanta. Claire, thought I didn’t know her name at the time was very unhappy. She looked unhappy. With my evangelism buddy nearby, I decided [...]

The Importance of Asking Questions

I boarded the plane in Dallas, flying to Atlanta. As usual the plane was full. Since I don’t have like a million miles there in no chance of a bump-up to business or first class. When booking seats on a plane I usually request the isle seat and the emergecy exit. For those of you [...]

The Importance of Listening

When I prepare to share my faith with someone, I’m usually thinking about what I am going to say. This has got to change. I first need to prepare myself on how to listen. I need to seek to understand before working to be understood. I need to listen.
If I can get involved in a [...]

Just Do Something

There is a story in the Bible about four men who had leprosy. They were living outside the walls of the city of Samaria. The city was under siege by Ben-Haddad, King of the Arameans. The people inside the city were starving. The lepers came to a conclusion sitting there between the city walls and [...]

Finding a Person’s Spiritual Address

One of the most important things to knonw in personal evangelism is finding out where a person is spiritually. In the book Irresistable Evangelism, by Steve Sjogren, Dave Ping and Dough Pollock they make a differentiation between the traditional evangelism appoach of generic evangelistic questions and move toward one that is more personalized. It is [...]

Relational Evangelism

I have been reading a very interesting book on the subject of relational evangelism. It was passed on to my by a man who is a great witness for Christ. The book was sent to him by another man who teaches evangelism at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. The book contains several observations that I [...]

Change

The moving truck finally arrived and they loaded our stuff and we left. We had lived in that state for 10 years. This was going to turn out to be a bigger move than I would have ever imagined. Have you ever had a big move before? In the past I have moved from Texas [...]