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Building A Culture of Evangelism

Hospitality & Evangelism Discussion

January 21, 2020 By Home Missions

Last week at the Church Planter Training Conference, Al & Laurie Tricarico gave a presentation on Hospitality & Evangelism from which we pull a couple of highlights that should encourage each of us: Question Posed to the Group: Why is hospitality a qualification for elders?(We can broaden that to why are Christians called to be […]

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John Shaw @ Church Planters’ Conference

February 5, 2019 By Home Missions

Last week at the Church Planter Training Conference, John Shaw spent an extended time with the church planters discussing evangelism. A particular segment of that time warrants a summary here for a brief refreshment, encouragement, and direction in this important task for our churches. John opened with a quote from a 19th century minister named […]

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Rosaria Butterfield’s Hospitality & Bridging the Divide

May 30, 2018 By Home Missions

A fantastic video featuring Rosaria Butterfield—her testimony, how hospitality was the patient means God used to draw her to Himself, and how that has affected her views of hospitality in an antagonistic world. Check it out: This video is a promotion for her new book, “The Gospel Comes With a House Key,” which is highly […]

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Conversation That Opens Doors (and Hearts)

April 11, 2018 By Home Missions

Our post several weeks ago about how well-intended questions could be unwelcoming to visitors (“Unwelcoming Welcome”) received a lot of good feedback, was passed around congregational email lists, and led to requests for more help in this area. Today, let’s look at questions and conversation once you get beyond the initial chitchat phase. These may […]

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An Unintentional Unwelcoming Welcome

February 14, 2018 By Home Missions

Sometimes our sincere efforts to welcome visitors on a Sunday can actually be unwelcoming and we don’t even know it. This is our third installment highlighting one of the sessions entitled “Building a Culture of Evangelism” at the 2018 Church Planter Training Conference. In previous posts, we looked at an overview of loving people in […]

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Preaching & Evangelism

February 1, 2018 By Home Missions

We continue our series of highlights from the Church Planters Conference in St. Augustine. Last week, we considered some matters relating to “Building A Culture of Evangelism” in our churches (Link). During the same session Eric Watkins, the host pastor, led a brief discussion on the role of preaching and evangelism. Eric had an interesting […]

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Building A Culture of Evangelism

January 23, 2018 By Home Missions

Last week was the annual Church Planter Training Conference in St. Augustine. One of the sessions was an extended consideration of “Building a Culture of Evangelism.” John Shaw led this with contributions by Al Tricarico and host pastor Eric Watkins. John & Eric completed teaching their first MTI-OPC class on Evangelism this past August. We […]

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