I’d like to extend a very special invitation to you… Would you bring a mission team to NYC this summer to work with The Journey Church? Here’s FIVE benefits to you for bringing a team to serve with The Journey this summer: 1- Your team will get to spend a week experiencing New York City while reaching thousands through mission projects … Read More
3 Easy Ways to Attract the Right People to Your Church (and repel the wrong ones!)
Gabe Kolstad here – multi-time Advanced Coaching Alumni with Nelson and Senior Pastor of Westside Community Church in Beaverton, Oregon. Everyone’s welcome, but not everyone is equally interested. You love everyone, but you can’t help everyone equally. Depending on the “draw” of your church certain people will be more likely to show up and stick. Three ways to attract the people … Read More
Mission Trip Opportunity for Your Church in New York City
I’d like to extend a very special invitation to you today… Will you bring a mission team to NYC next summer to work with The Journey Church? Here are FIVE benefits of bringing a team to serve with The Journey this summer: 1- Your team will get to spend a week experiencing New York City while reaching thousands through mission … Read More
Roy Fish… His Legacy Lives On
I was sad to read that Roy Fish passed away on Monday at age 82. Roy is a true great for those of us who love evangelism. In memory of him, here are my top 3 favorite Roy Fish books: Every Member Evangelism for Today Preaching Evangelistically Evangelism in a Changing World Roy served Southwestern Baptist Seminary for nearly 50 … Read More
Kick Off the Season and Reach More People with A Fall Big Day (now’s the time to prepare)
Summer is in its final throes across the U.S. That means autumn is fast approaching, bringing it with it one of the greatest opportunities you have all year to reach the people of your community with a Big Day! A big day is an all-out push toward a single Sunday for the purpose of breaking the next growth barrier and … Read More
Over 100 Baptisms in 3 Weeks! Plus FREE Webinar Recording
There is nothing more exciting to me than celebrating Baptism! I love the imagery, the public profession of faith and the tangible picture of lives transformed by Jesus. That’s why just last week I led a series of brand new webinars called “7 Ways to Increase Your Baptisms” (more on that below – including how you can watch a free … Read More
Bonhoeffer on Baptism
“The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ crucified. It is to this image that the life of the disciples must be conformed; in other words, they must be conformed to his death (Phil 3.10, Rom 6.4). The Christian life is a life of crucifixion (Gal 2.19) In baptism the … Read More
Spurgeon, Lucado, Havner and Nee on Baptism
“A man who knows that he is saved by believing in Christ does not, when he is baptized, lift his baptism into a saving ordinance. In fact, he is the very best protester against that mistake, because he holds that he has no right to be baptized until he is saved.” – Charles Spurgeon “Baptism separates the tire kickers from the car buyers.” – … Read More
Theologian Wayne Grudem on Baptism
“Our justification from sins takes place at the point of saving faith, not at the point of water baptism, which usually occurs later. But if a person is already justified and has sins forgiven eternally at the point of saving faith, then baptism is not necessary for forgiveness of sins nor for the bestowal of new spiritual life. Baptism, then, is not necessary for salvation. … Read More
7 Ways to Increase Your Baptisms – Free Webinars this Week
In all my years of coaching pastors and working with other churches, I’ve never once met a pastor who said “We’re baptizing all we can…” The truth is ALL of our churches could be baptizing more people. And Baptism ignites the fire of evangelism in a church more so than any other activity – your people get to see a … Read More