Resources

Resources to Increase Your Evangelism Effectiveness

• Allison, Lon; Anderson, Mark. Going Public with the Gospel. IVP, 2004. A call for the revival of public gospel proclamation.
• Borthwick, Paul. Stop Witnessing and Start Loving. Navpress, 2003. A challenge to lifestyle evangelism by rethinking your own world view and developing a better understanding of the people you’re trying to reach.
• Boursier, Helen T. Tell it with Style-Evangelism for Every Personality Type. IVP, 1995.
• Coleman, Robert E. The Master Plan of Evangelism. Spire, 2000. Classical book on Christ’s strategy of evangelism.
• Drummond, Lewis. The Evangelist. Word, 2001. Basic exploration into the life and preaching of Billy Graham. This is also an excellent basic doctrines primer.
• Eisenman, Tom. Everyday Evangelism-Making the Most of Life’s Common Moments. IVP, 1987. Practical help in witnessing to different kinds of people and life contexts.
• Everts, Don. The Smell of Sin and the Fresh Air of Grace. IVP, 2003. A graphic theology of sin and the fresh air of grace.
• Finney, Charles. Letters and Notes on Revival. The classic collection of Finney’s teaching on preaching and evangelizing: extremely motivational.
• Green, Michael. Evangelism in the Early Church. Eerdmans, 1970. A detailed and ground breaking biblical study of evangelism in the book of Acts. A briefer version is Green’s Evangelism Now and Then, IVP.
• Hunter, George G. The Celtic Way of Evangelism: How Christianity Can Reach the West…Again. Abingdon Press, 2000. A thought-provoking study of the Celtic way of evangelism and how it might help us convert our emerging culture.
• Lehmann, Danny. Beautiful Feet: Steps to a Lifestyle of Evangelism. Calvary Chapel Publishing, 2002. Examination of the messengers, message, motives and methods of evangelism. Practical suggestions for developing a lifestyle of evangelism.
• Little, Paul. How to Give Away Your Faith. IVP, 1988. Practical, biblical manual for effective communication of the gospel. Great use of John IV and of the image of being an ambassador.
• Loscalzo, Craig A. Evangelistic Preaching that Connects. IVP, 2000. Crafting and preaching sermons that connect with lost people.
• McKnight, Scott. Turning to Jesus: The Sociology of Conversion in the Gospels. John Knox Press, 2002. A study of three contemporary models of conversion that are presented in the gospels.
• Mittelberg, Mark. Building a Contagious Church. Excellent resource in terms of developing evangelistic culture in a church and loosing evangelistic leaders to do evangelism.
• Mittelberg, Mark; Strobel, Lee; Hybels, Bill. Becoming a contagious Christian-Participant’s Guide. Zondervan, 1995. Communicating Your Faith in a Style that Fits You.
• Moore, R. York. Growing Your Faith by Giving it Away. IVP 2005. Telling the gospel story with grace and passion.
• Myra, Harrold; Shelly, Marshall. The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham. Zondervan, 2005. Billy Graham offers 21 essential leadership principles for today’s leaders.
• Ortberg, John. If You Want To Walk On Water, You’ve Got To Get Out Of The Boat. Deals with vision, motivation, and fear in evangelism.
• Ortberg, John. InterVarsity GiG Guide. How to start a Group Investigating God-a Bible discussion group for non-believers.
• Packer, James I. Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God. IVP. Addresses theologically and understandably the relationship between God’s sovereignty and our actions in prayer and evangelism.
• Pippert, Rebecca Manley. Out of the Salt Shaker and Into the World-Evangelism as a Way of Life. IVP, 1999. Excellent chapters on Jesus as Lord, the Gospel in contrast to religion, the stages of evangelism and conversation models.
• Posterski, Donald C. Reinventing Evangelism. IVP, 1989. New strategies for presenting Christ in today’s world.
• Richardson, Rick. Evangelism Outside the Box. IVP, 2000. New ways to help people in this generation experience the Good News.
• Smith, Gordon T. Beginning Well: Christian Conversion and Authentic Transformation. IVP, 2001. A call to rethink the relationship between conversion and transformation.
• Stiles, J. Mack. Speaking of Jesus-How to Tell Your Friends the Best News They Will Ever Hear. IVP, 1995. Great stories and biblical principles of engaging our worlds with the good news.
• Teter, John. Get the Word Out. IVP, 2003. A challenge to a Word-based evangelism ministry.

Apologetics

• Knechtle, Cliff. Give Me an Answer that Satisfies My heart and Mind. IVP, 1986. Three page answers to 41 tough questions, like those he gives in open-air contexts.
• Kreeft, Peter; Tacelli, Ronald. Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics. IVP, 2003. A concise, informative guide for anyone looking for answers to questions of faith and reason.
• Little, Paul. Know Why You Believe. IVP, 1988. Fifteen pages of good answers to each of the top 12 questions non-Christians ask.
• Stackhouse Jr., John G. Humble Apologetics: Defending the Faith Today. Oxford University Press, 2002. Guidance for sharing your Christian Faith in a postmodern world.

For Non-Christians

• Everts, Don. Jesus with Dirty Feet-A down-to-earth look at Christianity for the curious and skeptical. IVP, 1999.
• Johnson, Timothy. Finding God in the Questions. IVP, 2004. Join Dr. Timothy Johnson, medical editor for ABC News, on the journey of asking questions and perhaps finding God behind them.
• Knechtle, Cliffe. Give Me an Answer That Satisfies My Heart and My Mind. IVP, 1986. Answers to your toughest questions about Christianity.
• Knechtle, Cliffe. Help Me Believe. IVP, 2000. Direct answers to real questions.
• Stott, John. Why I am a Christian. IVP, 2003. A compelling and persuasive case for considering the Christian faith.
• Stroebel, Lee. The Case for Christ-A Journalist’s Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus. Zondervan, 1998.
• Stroebel, Lee. The Case for Faith. Zondervan, 2000. A very honest and compelling look at reasons for not believing.
• Yancey, Philip. What’s so amazing about Grace? (Visual edition). Zondervan, 2003. An insightful exploration of grace, our only hope for love and forgiveness.