A Story for Motivation in Personal Evangelism

   Imagine yourself in this story.
   You didn’t see your neighbor’s two year old when you backed the car out the driveway. You rushed the child to the hospital but he didn’t make it. What do you do? Perhaps you would sell your house and move. You don’t think you can bear to face your neighbor [...]

Praying for Yourself in Personal Evangelism

As much time as we should spend in praying for those who are outside of the saving grace of Jesus Christ, we should also spend ample time praying for ourselves to be effective in bringing Christ to them. Praying for your effectiveness in personal evangelism is like sharpening the axe before cutting the tree. It [...]

Prayer and Personal Evangelism

Prayer has been summed up as simply talking to God and Bible reading as listening to God. When we focus on prayer and our personal evangelism I think prayer can fall into three categories. First, prayer is talking to God about a person before you talk to that person about God. Second, prayer is talking to God about a [...]

The Awareness Factor in Personal Evangelism

I think a lot of us go through life not living in the moment we are living, but living in the next thing we are going to do. Even now, I am thinking about my list of “to do” things. If you are much the same way, then both of us have a potential problem. The problem [...]

Getting Permission to Share the Gospel for Evangelism

It is hard for most of us who want everyone to know Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord to be patient enough to gain permission to share Christ with someone. Why get permission anyway? Didn’t Jesus command us to go and share? If the Lord of all creation commands us to do something, why then [...]

Directive Questions Help You Find a Person’s Spiritual Address (part 4 of 4)

Directive questioning is a great conversational way to find out the background, values, and spiritual address of a person. People like to talk about themselves. When you ask a series of questions about them, beginning with the general and moving to value related and then spiritual questions, you can gain a lot of insight into a [...]

How to Use Directive Questions in Personal Evangelism, Pt. 3

Using the acrostic of F.I.R.E to help remember certain directive and progressive questions will help you guide conversation onto spiritual things in a natural way. The “F” and the “I” are covered in previous articles.
After asking the “important” question you will want to progress to the “R” in F.I.R.E. The “R” is for “religious” question. [...]

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 [...]