Veteran outreach leaders know this – that one of the largest challenges involved in starting or running an ongoing outreach is the commitment factor. In this coaching call on ServeCoach.com we looked at some essential topics related to building commitment among your people including: Launching a Starting Vision Making Your Commitment Understandable Making Your Commitment [...]
Kindness Outreach Coaching with Steve and Janie Sjogren is now being offered through the ServeCoach.com Network to ten churches!
As Valentines Day approaches lets take a peek at the power of love that moves through us – both when we reach out and we focus in on our brothers and sisters in the Church.
At the end of the year some time ago I gave a message on a few year-end reflections I had cloaked around “My Biggest Mistakes of the Year.” To my surprise more listened to that message than any in the previous year. The following year I did the same with fresh, new mistakes. Again, there [...]
Steve Sjogren recently did a great interview with Rice Broocks about Servant Evangelism on the TBN network. You might find this helpful to forward to others as a way of explaining the concept of SE in a nutshell. (Interesting note: It was taped in Nashville at what was previously the estate of country music legend [...]
I don’t want to sound heretical but I have an observation to make. My friend Fred was prolific at leading people to Christ in the first few years of his Christian life as he came out of the music scene in Los Angeles and pointed something out to me I thought was interesting. He noticed [...]
The holiday season is here and it’s never been a better time to show God’s love in practical ways! Here are 3 projects to jump-start your holiday outreaches.
Church plants need to find creative ways to connect with the non-believing culture around them. If you pray for not-yet Believers to show up they will. But how do you lead them into relationship with Christ? Usually there is a process involved in leading them to Christ. When my wife Janie was seeking to know [...]
We tend to associate Cornelius’ conversion in Acts 10 solely with his coming to Christ, but sometimes Scripture gives more diverse examples of the notion of conversion. The life of this Italian cohort in Acts 10 is one such example.Cornelius was influenced by the Spirit of God for a time prior to his conversion to [...]
I have heard a lot of speculation about the utter demise of spontaneous evangelistic conversations such as verbalizing the Gospel to strangers. I understand the observations of these prognosticators but I disagree with them. It’s true that people are more isolated than ever as they burrow more and more deeply into their self-made digital worlds, but there’s [...]