To better understand what people liked (or didn’t like) about our recent evangelistic series, we sent out an online survey to everyone who pre-registered to attend Discovering Revelation. Here’s what we they told us… For all respondents, the primary way they learned...
The number one reason that evangelistic meetings fail is because the church assumes that presenting information is enough to secure meaningful presentations. Far too often, we hear people saying, “Well, they’ve been told. It’s up to them whether or not they accept the...
"How much do you have to hate somebody to believe everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?" These words, spoken by atheist Penn Jillette of the magician duo Penn & Teller, carry a profound message about our responsibility to share the hope of...
Believe it or not, we’re only three short weeks away from Discovering Revelation! As you’re reading this, literally thousands of people are seeing Discovering Revelation ads on their social media feeds and clicking on the Discovering Revelation registration website....
Bob walks into Sabbath School for the first time after enjoying four weeks of engaging Bible messages during Discovering Revelation expecting to find a church full of eager Bible students. If Bob were to walk into your church, would he find the enthusiastic, welcoming...
Discovering Revelation begins Monday, October 2—only weeks away now! While public advertising like billboards, social media, and direct mail handbills certainly has its place, evangelistic success rests to a great degree on our personal effort to invite people to hear...
Many churches are missing a vital element in their work that can literally make or break their evangelism success. All the wonderful outreach activities a church conducts may be highly organized, strongly supported, and even well attended, yet still fall short of...
I have had the joy of participating in and directing VBS programs for more than 20 years and have decided that VBS is the perfect way to involve everyone in your local church-especially the youth! It provides such awesome leadership opportunities for them to feel...
The best interests at an evangelistic meeting are friends and family of the members, those people who are personally invited. So, now is the time to build relationships with people so that when you invite them to the meetings, they will be happy to come. Here’s a (not...
In the last couple of years, we have been living in interesting times and have seen rapid changes within our society. As a result of these evident challenges, I have been approached often by people asking, “Has our church’s evangelistic labor become something of the...
Pastor Rob Benardo shares an update from the Battle Creek Tabernacle: We did a three-week series on weekends with a little over 100 people on opening night and ending up with close to 70 by the end of the series. Visitors were between 15 and 25 each...