All posts tagged evangelism

Book Review: Selling the Invisible

In Harry Beckwith’s Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing, I was reminded that I am selling (evangelizing) something invisible: God.  You can’t see, smell, touch, taste, or hear Him, but He is there.  He’s everywhere…but He IS invisible.  And using the secular terminology, if you are in ministry, you are a service provider, and you are ALWAYS selling Jesus Christ.

Matthew 28:18-20, the Great Commission, tells us to “Win, Baptize, and Disciple, everyone in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”  THAT’S selling/marketing.  And Beckwith is a master of selling and his simple concepts are PERFECT for helping the church to be more productive in our main goal, spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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Book Review: Sticky Church

If there is one thing that modern day churches truly SUCK at, it’s being sticky.  Sure, many have great preachers and teachers, awesome music or artistic elements, and even cool youth and children’s programs.

But would most people who attend those churches stay in those churches if didn’t have those things?  As Larry Osborne states, “If the back door of the church is left wide open, it doesn’t matter how many people are coxed to come in the front door – or the side door, for that matter.

In other words, are our modern, hip, missional, emergent, progressive, contemporary, even traditional or blended churches sticky? Continue reading →

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