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“Download” the following four “apps” to help you launch an intentional focus on evangelism in your ministry.

Strategy Guide A strategy “map” to help you think through what intentionally focusing on evangelism might look like at your church complete with an intentional plan to do so.

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Launch Guide After you use the Strategy Guide to define what focusing on evangelism will look like in your ministry, use the Launch Guide to design and implementation strategy for your ministry.

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Time Line Guide Use the Time line Guide in correlation with the Launch Guide to lay out a time line for implementing your strategy for intentionally focusing on evangelism in your ministry.

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Theme Guide Use the Theme Guide to help your ministry come up with a theme and a theme verse for your intentional focus on evangelism.

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“Download” the following four “apps” as tools to equip your people with practical tools for evangelism.

Evangelism Tools Use this “app” to equip your people with a variety of evangelism tools to communicate the gospel.

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Personal Strategy Tools Pe Th “app” contains resources to train people This in how to practically use evangelism tools to share their relationship with Jesus. These sh strategies help believers become intentional. stra

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Follow Up Tools This “app” contains resources and tools to equip ministries to follow up with people who respond to the gospel.

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“Download” the following four “apps” to train your ministry in an intentional focus on evangelism in your ministry.

Speaker Resources Why not bring a world class evangelism speaker in to train people in your ministry. Best of all, we provide these trainers at no cost to your ministry.

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Student Resources Most U.S. college students are leaving the church after graduation from high school. Why not bring a CCU student to share why they are passionately seeking Jesus even in college.

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Media Resources There are multiple media tools availabe to anyone who is serious about focusing on evangelism. This “app” lists out and organizes all of these multimedia tools in one place.

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Training Resources We’ve covered many tools to share a relationship with Christ. This “app” provides notes you can copy and print out as your own to train people in evangelism.

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“Download” the following four “apps” to connect your ministry to the movement of intentional focus across Colorado.

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Find out why Colorado Christian University has decided to launch the Year of Evangelism and what makes CCU such a unique University for students to gain a quaility education.

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Evangelism Organizations Discover what organizations are out there provide resources and partnerships to reach this word for Jesus Christ.

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Year of Evangelism Network Discover how to connect with other ministries and churches focusing intentionally on evangelism this year. Disocover how to get the latest and current ideas on evangelism.

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BGEA Festival Discover how Franklin Graham and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association are coming to Denver in Summer/Fall 2011 and how your ministry can get invovled.

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For great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; he is to be feared above all gods. —Psalm 96:3-4

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“Download” the following four “apps” to help you launch an intentional focus on evangelism in your ministry.

Strategy Guide A strategy “map” to help you think through what intentionally focusing on evangelism might look like at your church complete with an intentional plan to do so.

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Launch Guide After you use the Strategy Guide to define what focusing on evangelism will look like in your ministry, use the Launch Guide to design and implementation strategy for your ministry.

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Time Line Guide Use the Time line Guide in correlation with the Launch Guide to lay out a time line for implementing your strategy for intentionally focusing on evangelism in your ministry.

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Theme Guide Use the Theme Guide to help your ministry come up with a theme and a theme verse for your intentional focus on evangelism.

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The Year of Evangelism

Less than 5% of believers ever share their faith Does this statistic shock us? Does this statistic break our hearts? How could it be that 95% of people who identify themselves as believers don’t ever share their faith?

At Colorado Christian University we are driven by this statistic because of our passionate pursuit of Jesus Christ. As a university, we exist to produce graduates who think critically, live faithfully, and effectively impact their spheres of influence. As the only member of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities in Colorado, CCU is uniquely positioned to challenge students to move beyond the 5%, and become a force who passionately share the story of what Jesus has done in their lives.

5% is not good enough We are surrounded by people desperate to find hope, forgiveness, and peace. Our culture is seeking answers and it is time for the followers of Christ to fulfill the Great Commission by taking seriously the responsibility to reach our friends and family for Jesus Christ.

The Year of Evangelism The 2010-2011 academic year has been dubbed the “Year of Evangelism” at Colorado Christian University. More than a theme, the Year of Evangelism will be a comprehensive part Believers who of campus life. As President Bill Believers who share never share “We will call every Armstrong relates the vision: their faith their faith “We will call every student, student, faculty and faculty and staff member to share their faith and staff member equip them to do so.” to share their faith

and equip them to do so.”

—Bill Armstrong

Evangelism has been a part of CCU for years. However, this year will be a year in which we purposefully light a fire in the hearts of students, faculty, and staff to intentionally share their relationship with Jesus in their spheres of influence.

The Year of Evangelism will include in-depth training, theological training, and practical opportunities for each student, faculty and staff member to live out what it means to follow Jesus Christ by introducing others to a relationship with Him.

A Movement of Evangelism CCU is in a unique position to challenge and serve the Body of Christ across the state of Colorado. We believe so many will be challenged and captured by this vision that the ultimate goal would be to give every person in Colorado an opportunity to accept Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior.

Like a ripple from a stone thrown into a lake, CCU will focus on training its students in evangelistic methods, and deploying them in outreach focused throughout the state of Colorado.

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JJust imagine what could happen if the B Body of Christ residing in Colorado spent a an entire year intentionally reaching p people within their influence for Christ.

C CCU is not looking for financial support no nor for recognition. Instead, CCU seeks to spark a movement of evangelism in Co Colorado. To move beyond the 5% so that 10 100% of those who claim to be followers of Christ are not only trained to share their faith, but are actively doing so.

Leadership In the past few months, Lee Strobel and Mark Mittleberg have both relocated to the Denver metro area. From a Colorado home base, Lee and Mark will continue developing their evangelistic apologetics ministry through writing, speaking, and training. Both men have trained millions of Christians on how to share their faith through their books, DVDs, speaking engagements, and training seminars. CCU has formally agreed to partner with both Lee Strobel and Mark Mittleberg to not only train students, staff, and faculty in evangelism, but also to partner in training churches around the state of Colorado who decide to focus on evangelism.

CCU Alum, Greg Stier has also agreed to partner in this movement. As President of the youth evangelism organization “Dare2Share”, Greg trains and equips hundreds of thousands of teenagers each year. The Dare2Share organization will play a key role in catalyzing The Year of Evangelism.

Additionally, CCU has hired Brian Carlson to give day-to-day leadership to this effort. Most recently, Brian served as the Youth Pastor at Woodmen Valley Chapel, a church of over 7000 in Colorado Springs. Brian brings extensive experience as a pastor, missionary, Christian leader, ministry consultant, and Biblical teacher to his role at CCU.

Join in the Movement Colorado Christian University believes that we are being called to serve as catalysts to bring about a much larger evangelistic movement in Colorado. Because of our relationships with many churches, para church organizations, non-profit entities, charitable foundations, political leaders, alumni, parents, and friends, we believe that many of these organizations and individuals will join us in our prayers and efforts to share Christ with every person in Colorado.

The ultimate goal would be to give every person in Colorado an opportunity to accept Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior.

We want to invite the Body of Christ living in the state of Colorado to move beyond the 5% and join CCU in a year intentionally focusing on evangelism. That churches and ministries across our great state would take time to train, equip, and launch people towards intentionally sharing Jesus Christ in their sphere’s of influence.

Again, CCU is not looking for financial support or recognition from churches or ministries. Instead, CCU desires to follow God’s call on this university to launch an evangelistic movement across Colorado. The question is, “How might your ministry get involved?”

Personalizing the Movement This Year of Evangelism Toolkit is designed like an app store. Why are app stores so popular? Because anyone with a cell or computer tablet can instantly download any application, tool, or resource that fits their unique lifestyle or business needs.

We have designed this toolkit to be just that--an evangelism “app store” that allows you to instantly download any application, tool, or resources that fits the unique needs of your church or ministry.

This toolkit is like an evangelism “app store” that allows you to instantly download any application, tool, or resource that fits Some churches will join CCU in focusing on evangelism the unique needs of for an entire year. Some will join CCU in focusing on your church evangelism for one weekend. What an intentional focus or ministry. on evangelism looks like in your unique ministry will No two churches are the same. Each ministry environment has unique circumstances and cultural issues. This toolkit will help church and ministry leaders discover not only what intentionally focusing on evangelism might look like in their ministry, but also will give them applications, tools, and resources to help them do so.

depend on what your unique ministry looks like.

What we’d invite you to do is to go through this Year of Evangelism Toolkit and create your own intentional plan by selecting specific “apps” to “download” to your ministry. You might “download” one app. You might “download” them all. The key is to use this toolkit as a resource to intentionally focus on evangelism in your ministry.

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Intentional Plan for Evangelism

Use this Guide to Create an Intentional Plan No two churches or ministries are the same. Each ministry has unique circumstances and environments that make that ministry distinctive. What one ministry implements to focus on evangelism will look completely different than another.

Think of this Strategy Guide as a “home base” for the rest of this Evangelism Tool Kit. In a sense, this “app” is the culimination of all of the other resources and tools this kit offers. This guide will allow you to process through the other tools and practacally decide how and what you will implement.

This Stragey guide will follow five steps to develop an effective strategy that fits your ministry environemnt.

1. Understand “As Is” Reality.

2. Caputure “Could Be” Dreams.

3. Draft “Might Be” Prototype 4. Nail Down “Should Be” Objectives 5. Formalize “Will Be” Plan

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Implementing Your Strategy

Use this Guide to Create An Implementation Strategy Too often amazing strategies for ministry fail, not because the strategy is poor, but because the execution of that strategy is poor. Often, ministries are excited about a new vision or opportunity, but the pressures of ministry (and the fact that the weekend service is always less than seven days away) leads to amazing strategies being lost in the fog of the daily grind.

Many times vast time is spent developing strategies, but little time is spent on designing how that strategy will be launched. Ministry leaders know their strategies and goals, however they strugle to translate the theory and action plans that will build an effectivive and sustainable ministry.

This guide, is help clarify and design a strategy to effectively launch an intentional focus on evangelism in your ministry. It will lead you through ďŹ ve launch phases: 1) Paint the Vision 2) Train the People 3) Launch the Cause 4) Stoke the Fire 5) Measure Results.

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Evangelism is not a daily felt need of the people we lead. Of course, they love their friends & family, but only 5% of them feel the need to take practical steps to share their relationship with Christ with the people they love.

As leaders we must ďŹ nd a way to paint the vision and elevate the un-felt need of reaching people for Christ to become a passionate burning of their heart.

Use this worksheet to plan how you will paint the vision to elevate this un-felt need to a felt priority.

Check & describe vehicles you will use. Use other sheets or larger sheets if necessary.

How will they SEE Our Vision?

VISION VEHICLES Drama

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Use this worksheet to plan how you will paint the vision to elevate this un-felt need to a felt priority.

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Train the People Often people have a heart to see their lost friends and family come to Jesus, but feel they lack the skills and knowledge necessary to do so. People will not share their faith unless they are equipped to do so.

After you have painted the vision in your ministry for evangelism, you must plan how you will launch the practical training to equip your people to reach people for Christ. Use this worksheet to strategies how you will launch the equipping of your people.

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Training Launch Ideas The way training is launched often determines the effectiveness of the campaign. If people’s hearts are gripped by a vision,yet there is not a practical training program to equip them the vision will loose its momentum. Again, visions fail not because of bad strategy, but because of bad execution. Launching your vision with training is equiping your people to execute the vision.

Read through the following idea starters to launch an intentional focus in a ministry. After reading the idea, write down what you like it about it, what you don’t like about it, and what you could take from the idea to design your own launch vehicle. On the last form write out how your ministry will launch training your people with practical skills to share their relationship with Jesus.

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The small group meets for 8 weeks during which each person commits to sharing Christ with at least one friend or family member. Then share testimonies from the class during your main service.

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Everything from the pre-service video, to worship, to the sermon and beneiction is designed to inspire, equip, and challenge your people to share their faith.

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Your ministry offers a retreat inviting people to spend an 2-3 days focusing training in evangelism. You rent a retreat center, bring in an expert on evangelism as a speaker and have in-depth training over multiple sessions.

At the end of the retreat the attendees are launched out to share their relationship with Jesus with their friends and families.

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Challenge everyone in your ministry to go skiing on a set day. Before that day hold an evangelism training event where everyone is trained to share Jesus in quick easy format using a chair lift ride.

Then, launch them out to ski with the challenge of always riding with strangers on the chair lifts. On each lift ride they should try to share Christ.

Challenge them to try and share Christ 5 times during your ministry’s ski day. Gather to share stories at the end.

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Train the People Often people have a heart to see their lost friends and family come to Jesus, but feel they lack the skills and Look back through your notes from necessary the five training lanuch ideas.

From those notes, answer the knowledge to do so.

People will not share following questinos. Use extra or larger sheets of paper if necessary. their faith unless they are equipped to do so.

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What are your favorite aspects fromt he five ideas?

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Launch the Cause To merely paint the vision and equip people is not enough. You must give them a practicle opportunity to put the vision and their new skills and knowledge into practice. Phase III is where people move from the 95% who never share the gospel, into those who truly join the cause of sharing their relationship with Jesus Christ.

Use this section to design a practical experience will which allows your people to verbally share their relationship with Jesus.

Check & describe vehicles you will use. Use other sheets or larger sheets if necessary.

Less Intimidating Challenge Ideas

Facebook Challenge

Halloween Challenge

Challenge people in your ministry to post one thing about their relationship with Jesus on their Facebook page per day for all their friends to see.

Instead of holding a “harvest party” at church. Challenge your people to participate in Halloween in the neighborhoods by transforming their garage into a living room. Challenge them to clean out their garage, set up chairs or couches a set up hot cocoa, hot apple cider, and the best candy in the neighborhood for kids. Invite everyone passing by (including parents in to enjoy a warm quick break. Create an invitation for your church and challenge your people to give it to people as they leave.

CD/MP3 Challenge If a friend is going through a difficult season in life, purchase them a copy of Stephen Curtis Chapman’s album“Beauty will Rise” written out of the journey of losing his daughter. Write a note to describing the story behind the album.

Book Challenge Challenge people in your ministry to buy a copy of “The Case for Christ” by Lee Stroble and to give that book to a friend who does not yet know Jesus.

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Movie Challenge

Letter Challenge

Find an upcoming movie with spiritual themes and challenge people to take an unreached friend to the movie. Then challenge them to take their friend to coffee afterwards to discuss the movie.

Challenge your people to write a letter to an unreached friend explaining how much the care for them, and explaining their own personal testimony. End the letter by inviting them to get together to talk about the letter.

Cell Phone Challenge

24 Hour Challenge

Dare2Share challenges students every year to take their cell phone out, at their training event, and call a friend to share the gospel.

Why not give people in your ministry the same challenge?

Challenge the people in your ministry to share the gospel with at least one friend within the next 24 hours.

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enough. You must give them a practicle opportunity to put the vision and their new skills and knowledge into practice. Phase III is where people move from the 95% Thanksgiving Challenge Baptism Challenge who never share the gospel, into those who truly join the Challenge people to invite an unreached any believers in your ministry cause of sharing their relationship Challenge with Jesus Christ.

family/individual to spend Thanksgiving, who haven’t been baptized to get baptized. section to design a practical experience willBaptism have them invite Easter, or other holidayUse withthis them.

As a part of their which allows your people to verbally share their Challenge them to take time to share why five unreached friends to their baptism. relationship with Jesus. you are thankful by giving their testimony.

Make sure they have the opportunity to give a brief testimony or they are able to share why they are getting baptized for the guests Coffee House Challenge who come.

Challenge your people to invite an unreached friend they really care about to a coffee house. During their time together Other More Intimidating Ideas... have them lay out in detail the gospel.

Street Corner Challenge Challenge people in your ministry to find a way to bring up the gospel to a stranger on the street by using illustrations in the environment around them.

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Top 3 Challenges Pick out the top three challenges you checked and write them here:

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Event or Venue Write out the context in which this challenge will be given to your people.

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Date of Challenge Write out the planned date(s) on which this challenge will be given.

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Stoke the Fire Bill Hyble’s of Willow Creek Community Church said it best,“Vision Leaks.” People are naturally excited about a vision, but quickly loose interest and attention. As a part of your launch strategy, plan now for how you will “stoke the fire” in your ministry to keep the passion for evangelism burning.

The key to keeping the fire burning is consistency. You must keep the vision before your people. Use this form to strategical plan your fire stoking.

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Measure Results How do we know if we are being effective in implementing our vision if we do not measure it? Why is this so important? Because if we have launched a strategy that is not effectively impacting lives, then we must evaluate that strategy and decide how that strategy should be adjusted to fulďŹ ll the vision.

At times our measured results will be cause for celebration. At other times results will be cause for adjustments and possible re-launching.

Plan to Measure

What metrics would you like to use to see if your strategy is effectively launching the vision of intentionally focusing on evangelism (choose at least 3 metrics to measure the effectiveness of your launch).

Percentage of our people trained in evangelism.

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Percentage of our people who intentionally share their faith with an un-reached person.

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How do we know if we are being effective in implementing our vision if we do not measure it? Why is this so important? Because if we have launched a strategy that is not effectively impacting lives, then we How many people? must evaluate that strategy and decide how that 1 10 25 people strategy should be adjusted to fulďŹ ll the vision.

Number of who respond toAtthe 50 100+ times our measured results will be cause for gospel presented by celebration.

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How do we know if we are being effective in implementing our vision if we do not measure it? Why is this so important? Because if we have launched a strategy that is not effectively impacting lives, then we How many people? must evaluate that strategy and decide how that 10 50 100 people strategy should be adjusted to fulďŹ ll the vision.

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Thinking Strategically about an Intentional Focus The timing of an intentional focus on evangelism is important. Each ministry or Sunday church is in a different season and multiple factors will determine how much time they will dedicate to this intentional focus, and what the timing of that focus should be. Each ministry has multiple options as to the the schedule of their intentional focus on evangelism.

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Some ministries will choose to join CCU in a “Year of Evangelism.”

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This Time Line Guide is not ment to direct what the focus of your ministry will look like, but instead is a tool to help you and your team brainstorm and map out what an intentional focus on evangelism will look like.

On the following pages you will find three guides. One for a “Year of Evangelism,” one for a “Month of Evangelism,” and one for a “Year of Evangelism.” Turn to the guide the fits the plans you specifically have for your ministry.

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Use this Guide to Develop a Theme for Evangelism As you share the vision of a Year of Evangelism in your minisistry, you may want to develop a theme to communicate that vision to people in your ministry. This guide will contain several ideas that you can use to sell the idea of the vision to the people in your ministry.

Look through the various Theme Ideas, then look through the Theme Verse Ideas.

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Theme Verse Ideas The following are examples of Script Scripture you can use as a theme to ralley your people to focus on evangelism. Check an any verses that hat resonate with y your our heart.

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Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples. For great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; he is to feared above all gods.

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He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.”

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Yet to all who received him, to those who beleived in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.

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But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes; first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.

For the wages of sin is death, but the fift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Yet when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, for I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

That God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are threfore Chrsit’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.

It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Chrsit may be built up.

Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.

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Idea Communicate the statistic that only 5% of Christians ever share their relationship with Jesus Christ. Challenge your to image if it reversed and 95% of Christians shared their faith.

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Idea Challenge your people to do whatever it takes to reach their friends and family for Jesus Christ.

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Id Idea Communicate to the people in your ministry that evangelism can be as simple as a cup of coffee with a friend. Train them how to bring God up in every day conversation.

Idea Communicate that it is time to take the message of Jesus Christ outside of the walls of the church. It’s time to take what is “inside” and take it “out.”

Idea Communicate that Sunday is the “kickoff,” the rest is up to them. It is not their leader’s job to reach their friends and family, it is the responsibility of each believer to share their faith.

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Use this worksheet to develop what the theme of your focus on evangelism will look like.

Write the address for your top three verses you checked.

Out of these three verses, check the one that most resonates with your ministries’ focus on evangelism.

Write down your top three theme ideas you checked.

Out of these three ideas, check the one that most resonates with your theme verse for your ministries’ focus on evangelism.

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“Download” the following four “apps” as tools to equip your people with practical tools for evangelism.

Evangelism Tools Use this “app” to equip your people with a variety of evangelism tools to communicate the gospel.

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Train People to Share the Gospel There are hundreds of tools to share the gospel. We’ve chosen what we feel are the best tools we’ve found to share the gospel.

Use the Evangelism Tools app to equip your people with tools to communicate the gospel. Most people will gravitate towards one tool or another based upon several factors including personality, temperment, relationship circumstances, and the environment in which they are are sharing the gospel. Thus, it is important to not merely focus on one tool or technique, but rather give people an arsonal from which to draw upon.

The more evangelism tools we can provide our people, the more likely they are to join the 5% of people who ever share their faith.

Once you have a firm grasp of the evangelism tools, turn to the Equipping Tools section (the next section) to download resources to equip and train your people with these evangelism tools in the context of small groups, Sunday school classes, or even during a weekend service.

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One-Verse O ne-V Verse Evangelism Evangeli lism is i a tool tooll developed d develop l ed d by b Randy Raysbrook, of the Navigators. It is a powerful tool in that it fairly simple in that it uses one verse, yet it is complete and shares the entire story of the gospel.

The entire tool can be written out on a napkin and requries memorizing one verse, Romans 6:23. This tool has been used to lead thousands to give their lives to Christ over the past few years.

Romans 6:23

To begin using this tool tell the person you are sharing with that you can summarize everything you believe in one verse. Then ask if you could share it with them.

If they say then write out Romans 6:23 on a napkin or piece of paper: “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (NIV). wages Circle the word “wage” and ask, “How would you feel if your boss refused to pay you the wages that were due to you?” A wage is something we earn, and deserve. Make a box and write the word “wage” in it.

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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sin Circle the word “sin” and ask your friend what he thinks when he hears this word. Ask him to give some examples of sin (usually they’ll say big sins like murder, etc....Make sure to point out smaller sins like lying or cheating). Ask them if they've ever sinned. Point out we all sin, and when we sin it creates a gap between us and God. Draw two opposing cliffs with a gap in between. death Circle this word and ask what thoughts come to mind. Point out that to most people death is the end, it is eternal separation from God. This is an important part of the tool. Stop and have them do the “math.” Say, “According to this verse, if we sin, what do we earn as a wage?

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”Thank goodness for this word.” It is important because it means a sharp contrast in thought is coming. What we have just looked at is bad news; what follows is good news. Draw a circle with the word “but” at the bottom of the canyon. gift

Draw a circle around the word “gift.” Ask them what the difference is between a “wage” and a “gift.” A wage b is something you earn and deserve, but a gift is free and must be purchased by someone else.

God Circle this and explain that the gift you are talking about is free. Ask them, “According to this verse, who gave us this gift?” It is from God Himself. eternal life Circle these two words next, and then ask, “How would you define these words?” Ask, “What is the opposite of separation from God?” The Bible defines “eternal life” as eternity in heaven with God. This is another important checkpoint in the tool. At this point contrast one side of the cliff, death, with the other side, eternal life. Make sure they see that when we sin we earn death, but God offers a free gift of eternal life.

Draw two stick figures representing you and the person you are sharing with.

Say, “Because we have sinned, we’ve earned death. Thus, we are on this side of the gap. Now, we can try many things to try and jump this canyon, such as: ” Being a good person (draw an arrow lightly) Going to church or religion (draw an arrow lightly) Trying not to sin (draw an arrow lightly) Regardless of what we try, we can’t bridge the gap on our own because we still sin.

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One-Verse Evangelism is a tool developed by Randy Raysbrook, of the Navigators. It is a powerful in that it fairly simple in that it uses one verse, Explain that since sintool earns the wage of death.

Someone has to pay that wage yet it is complete and shares the entire story of the and this verse explains who paid that wage and how God purchased our gift of gospel.

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The entire tool can be written out on a napkin and requries memorizing one verse, Romans 6:23. This Christ Jesus Write thetool Name Christ” and draw a to cross it so that it has “Jesus been used to lead thousands give around their creates a bridge from lives one to side of over the gap to the other. Explain that God sent His Christ the past few years.

son Jesus as a gift for us. Explain that Jesus never sinned, so he never earned the wage of death. But despite not earning death He took our place, and paid our wage of death that we earned from our sin. He For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of died so that we don’t have to die from God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. sin, but instead we can receive the gift of life. We can cross over from death to life.

Explain that this gift is just like any other gift. Say,“If I went out and got you this pen and wrapped it up and put your name on it as a gift, would it be your’s yet?”

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Explain that making Jesus your Lord means you begin that relationship by giving your life to Him. He calls the shots and you follow after Him. Eternal life doesn’t start in heaven, it starts now with an amazing relationship with Him. At this point ask him if he wants to start a relationship with God that will last forever. If he says, “Yes,” invite him to pray a short prayer in his own words, asking Jesus to forgive him.

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Technology can be an incredible tool as we train our people to share the relationship with Jesus. The number one reason people don’t share is because they lack confidence, or are afraid they will forget what words to say.

To borrow a phrase from Apple,“There’s an app for that” Life to the Full is an actual app anyone can download from iTunes. Here’s how to use it.

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The Gospel Journey tool was created by Greg Steir and has been used by Dare2Share ministries to train tens-of-thousands of students accross the United States to share their relationship with Jesus.

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Sharing the gospel with someone else is like taking them on a journey with six stops along the way. The evangelist becomes a guide of sorts who brings their fellow sojourners to six stops along the way to pause and ponder the landscape of the story of the Bible, the gospel message. This journey begins in Genesis chapter one with the creation of humanity and concludes with the last chapter of the Bible, Revelation chapter twenty two. In between there are twists and turns, break ups and make ups, mystery and intrigue but the driving message of the plot is that from the ashes of sin comes the redemption of mankind through the death of Christ and His resurrection from the dead.

In many ways this journey is like a fairy tale that just happens to be true. It could begin "Once upon a time" and conclude "and they lived happily ever after." This journey through the storyline of the Bible is filled with mankind's weak attempts at reconciliation toward a God whose heart humanity had broken.

Much of the Old Testament is filled with examples of how sinful humanity attempted to gain God's acceptance through good deeds (Cain and his vegetables), obedience to God's commandments and a seemingly endless array of blood sacrifices.

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In the same way God made us to be in fellowship with Him. His original plan was that you and I were in absolute and perfect relationship with Him and with each other in total unity. God created us to be in harmony with all of heaven and all of earth. But that plan was disrupted by one evil act thousands and thousands of years ago.

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Instead of looking to Him in faith many of the Jews looked and powerful way. to themselves and thought they could please God in their own strength. But God saw their "righteous" deeds like filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6). Even the best of their good deeds were corrupted by selfish motives.

In Leviticus, the third book of the Bible, God gave the Israelites the sacrificial system. Every time a Jew sinned he or she was to sacrifice a goat without any blemishes (Leviticus 4:27-31). Think about that. If you were a Jew in the Old Testament and had to make a sacrifice every time you lied, lusted, gossiped, complained or argued you would soon run out of goats. Other offerings included offerings of bulls and sheep.

The sacrificial system was meant to point inward, upward and forward. It pointed inward to convince you of your sinfulness. If you were honest before God then you would soon realize that you could never make enough sacrifices for your sin. It pointed upward to make you trust in God for your salvation instead of sacrifices that you could make (Psalm 51:16,17). It pointed forward to the ultimate sacrifice of the lamb of God, Jesus Christ, who would someday come to take away the sin of the world ((John 1:29). ) Paying the price for sin, Jesus died and rose again.

Matthew M tth - LLuke k When Jesus came to the earth he came as the fulfillment of the law (Matthew 5:17) and the ultimate sacrifice (Luke 24:45). He lived the perfect life that we could not live and died in our place, for our sin.

When he died upon the cross he screamed the words "It is finished" (John 19:30). What he meant by these three words was that the price for our sins was paid completely. He was fully God and entirely man. As a perfect human he could die for other humans. As the true and living God his payment for sin was infinite.

Jesus rose from the dead three days after he was murdered on the cross (Mark 16:6). He was seen by over 500 witnesses (I Corinthians 15:6) on at least 12 separate occasions over the course of forty days (Acts 1:3). Because he died our sins are paid for entirely. Because he rose from the dead we know that Jesus was who he claimed to be, God in the flesh.

Everyone who trust in Him alonee has eternal life.

John The amazing thing about eternal life is that it is a free gift given to us by God through faith alone and not by any of our good deeds (Ephesians 2:8,9). Jesus paid the price for our sins when he died on the cross and all we must do is receive the gift of forgiveness through faith. When we believe that Jesus died for our sins and trust in Him alone we receive eternal life, are passed out of death into life and are guaranteed a home in heaven (John 5:24).

Eternal life is not achieved by good deeds but received through faith. It's not a matter of trying but trusting. When we believe we receive the forgiveness of sins and the gift of eternal life. Almost the entire New Testament is dedicated to talking about this eternal life and the implications of it in our everyday lives. From John through Jude the disciples of Jesus show us how to live like Jesus intended, serving each other in love. This is the heart of eternal life!

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Life with Jesus starts now and The Gospel Journey tool was created by Greg lasts forever.

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Part of the reality of eternal lifetool is that it doesn't start after you die but as soon The uses the simple acranem “G.O.S.P .E.L.”as you believe (John 10:10). This life is the joy ofto a tell real,the exciting relationship with Jesus every single whole store of the gospel in an easyday through prayer, worship and living in the strength that God provides through his Holy Spirit (Ephesians 5:18). and powerful way.

The other part of the reality of eternal life is that all who have it will be with Jesus forever and ever in heaven someday. Once we receive it is ours forever and we are his forever!

The last chapter of the last book of the Bible makes it clear that we will "rule and reign forever" with Jesus (Revelation 22:5). In essence the last chapter in the story of the Bible concludes by saying, "and they lived happily ever after."

If you have never trusted Christ for eternal life and it is something you would like to do right now, here is a sample prayer: "Dear Father, I know that I'm a sinner. I realize that my good deeds will never get me into heaven. Right now I believe that Jesus died in my place for my sins. I trust in Him alone to forgive me for all of my sins. Thank you for your free gift of eternal life."

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The 20 Tool takes a different approach to sharing the gospel. This tool focuses on the road to shame, verses the road to forgiveness. It contrasts the stories of Peter verses Judas. Both were guilty, yet one found shame, one found forgiveness. This tool helps people to ask,“What’s your 20?” Which road they are on and how they can make a chagne direction to find the road of forgiveness by simply trusting Jesus.

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This is likely the most widely used tool to share the gospel of the last century. It is simple and easy taking people through the gospel using the book of Romans.

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Equipping People with Personal Strategies to Share Once people have learned Evangelism Tools, it is important to give them Personal Strategies to bring up those tools in the context of relationships. Unless they have a clear strategy to use the evangelism tool, the likelyhood of them actually sharing their relationship with Jesus using the tool they’ve learned are not high.

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The Cause Circle has been developed by Dare2Share ministries and is an extremely effective process to see people come to know Jesus.

Dare2Share focuses on three steps. First is to “Pray,” then comes “Pursue,” then comes “Persuade.” This simple process gives an effective strategy in which to reach peopld for Jesus Christ.

Pray, Pursue, Persuade You will have 100 times more influence on your friends than a stranger does! THE Cause Circle is a simple tool that will help you be purposeful about sharing Jesus’ message with your friends. It will help you identify your friends, then remind you to pray, to pursue spiritual conversations and to persuade them to consider Jesus’ message.

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There are two big reasons people don’t share their faith. First, because they have a hard time recongizing people God has placed in their sphere of influence that need Him. Second, because they are intimidated. The Space/Walk Strategy is a series of two tools designed to help people not only identify people God has placed in their influence, but also what it would look like to walk with that person towards Jesus Christ.

The Space Tool The first part of the Space/Walk Strategy is the Space Tool. The Space Tool was developed by Steve Carlson to provide a model for mentoring. However, we’re going to adapt this tool to make it relevant to give people a personal strategy for evangelism. The idea is for each believer to imagine themselves as a planet. Each believer has a number of people who God has placed in their “orbit,” or within their sphere of influence. eeds to keep Each believer needs aged” their “radar engaged” hful keeping a watchful d eye for who God t.” has in their “orbit.”

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After Jake accepts Jesus as His Savior, Jordan’s next step is clear--to simply do intentional things to help Jake “grow in Jesus” until Jake ake is a “mature” follower of Jesus.

The Space/Walk Strategy is a simple tool to help people eople identify people God has on their radar, and to give a simple clear map of how to walk with people towards Jesus. Have your people fill out both a Space Tool and a Walk Tool for people God has on their radar screen. *Both of these tools are available at yearofevangelism.ccu.edu for download to print off for your ministry use.

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3) Draw arrows representing you walking alongside one or two people on your Walk Tool.

2) Graph out on the coninuum the names of the ďŹ ve people you drew on the Space Tool above in relation to where they are in their journey towards a relationship with Jesus Christ.

1) Draw a circle with your name representing where you are on your journey in your relationship with Jesus.

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One of the most powerful developments in personal evangelism strategy is new media. There are multiple evangelism tools available using short films, pictures, iTunes apps, and more. Cool tools are one thing, but what about a personal strategy to implement those tools?

The VIRAL strategy uses the simple acronym “VIRAL” to provide a guide map to use this tools to share one’s relationship with Jesus Christ.

The “Viral” Movement Most of us have experienced a “viral” video. We’re sitting at our desk, someone calls out “You’ve got to see this!” Everyone gathers around their desk to watch the latest hilarious or amazing video off YouTube. Everyone has a laugh and then go back to their desk to email that same video to every friend in their contact list--and the video “virus” spreads. This phenomenon occurs every day at offices, homes, and school around the world.

What if we took this same approach to new media tools for evangelism? Here’s strategy to go “VIRAL” with these amazing tools using ng the acronym acro “V.I.R.A.L.”

7 t View the Media Before you use any media tool to share your relationship with Jesus, make sure you VIEW the media tool yourself. When we say “view” we mean completely experience the tool.

If you are planning to use a short film on your iPhone, watch it thoroughly, don’t just wing it. Here’s some questions to keep in mind: 1) What feelings and thoughts does this tool bring up in my heart & mind?

2) How will I use this tool to launch into a deeper or spiritual conversation?

3) How will I use this tool to listen to my friend’s story?

4) How will I use this tool to share my own story with my friend?

5) How will I use this tool to share the story of the gospel? *NOTE: For a list of where to find media evangelism tools see the “Evangelism Tools” section. * t Invite them to View After you are comfortable with the tool, INVITE an unreached friend to watch the tool with you. This can be as simple as saying: “I just watched this, you have to check it out.”

“I thought you’d like this” Watch it on your Laptop or iPod hanging out at Starbucks. Watch it with them in your cube. Post it on Facebook. Send an email. Just find a way to invite them to watch it. Ideally, try to watch it with them. Since you’ve seen it before you can pray for them in your heart as they watch it. Pray God would use the video to open up their heart to His presence.

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3 t Ask their Response One of the most powerful developments in personal evangelism strategy is new media. There are multiple tools available using short After your friend evangelism has viewed the media tool, simply ask them to RESPOND. Be a films, pictures, iTunes apps, andgoal more. tactful question asker.

Make it your to Cool reallytools grasp how they are are one what thing,they but experienced. what about a personal strategy processing to implement those tools?

GENERAL QUESTIONS The VIRAL strategy uses the simple acronym “VIRAL” 1)provide What did think about it? this tools to share to a you guide map to use 2) How did you feel? one’s relationship with Jesus Christ.

3) What was your favorite scene or part?

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PERSONAL QUESTIONS 1) If this were you, how would you have responded?

2) How do you relate to the person in this?

" t Ask if you can Share Springboard into sharing your relationship with Jesus by ASKING permision to share how you personally experienced the media.

1) Share how your personal story or journey with Jesus relates to the person in the media story.

2) Share how you resolved the issue brought up in the media.

3) Use an evangelism tool to share the story of the gospel.

- t Leave a Next Step After you’ve shared the story of the gospel, LEAVE them a next step. The next step will depend upon how they are processessing through the media, how they are responding to what you are sharing, where they are in their journey, and ultimately what the Holy Spirit is doing in their life. Here are some next step options you can give them: 1) Invite them to begin a relationship with Jesus Christ.

2) Invite them to watch another media with you.

3) Invite them to your small group.

4) Give them a book to read through.

5) Invite them to go to church with you.

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Finding the Right Tools to Give your People for Evangelism With all of the evangelism tools availble today, it is amazing that only 5% of beleivers ever share their relationship with God. The section will highlight what we feel are some of the best tools available to outfit your people with to reach thier friends and family.

When it comes to outreach tools, keep these two thoughts in mind: 1) Seclect Outreach Tools that fit your ministry environent.

It is important to not just select a random tool, but instead to choose outreach tools that fit your ministry environment, and the culture of your community.

Organizations like Biblica (formerly IBS) have people trained to help you do this at 1-800-524-1588.

2) Create an Outreach Tool Strategy.

They say a tool not used is just a toy. That is why we don’t just set out a random tool collect dust on a table. Instead, develop a strategy to not only give your people access to these tools, but to have a solid strategy that gets your people to actually use these tools in real relationships.

On the following pages you will find various tool ideas and strategy ideas on how to use outreach tools in your ministry.

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Tool Idea #2: Coffee Q&A

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During the small groups, the students process through the powerful story in Venti Jesus with questions prepared by the youth pastor. The last question is, “Who is one friend you know, who doesn’t know Jesus, that you could give this book to?” After everyone has identified the friend they pray over those names. Then, everyone is launched out to give the book to their friend within 24 hours. Finally, challenge everyone to invite that same friend to an informal Q&A time at Starbucks with anyone who wants to come the following week after school where together the group will ask and answer the any question about life, who Jesus is, or any other What we like about this idea:

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Tool Idea #3: Seeker’s Bible

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Evan ngelism Idea Evangelism A church chu urch co onnects with Biblica a and orders o 200 2 0 co copies of the “Fi d connects “Finding God” New Testament ment (A ((At At less than $1 50 pe Bibl $1.50 per Bi Bible). Then, the senior pastor paints the vision of i using this tool to reach friends for Jesus Christ. The pastor takes time to go through a few of the study notes in this Bible and builds a fire in his congregations hearts to give this Bible as a gift to their friend. At the end of the service the pastor challenges his congregation to think of one friend or family member they will give this Bible to. He then gives everyone 5 minutes during a final song to write a note to that friend inside the cover of the “Finding God” New Testament. At the end of the service the pastor prays over every Bible and person in his congregation, and then launches them out to share their relationship with Christ by giving one friend a copy of “Finding God.” What we like about this idea:

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Description D escripttion TThis 30-da 30-day ay devotiona d al booklet book devotional helps pro h ovide ho provide hope and enco a ouragem encouragement in n the face e of dis disaster and chao a chaos. os. Help people figure p fig gure out how to do h o the diffi difficult work of grie w eving and a grieving healing. h

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Then when an earthquake, tornado, hurricane, or worse hits, your Disaster Response Team is there to love people with their lives, and to share the hope only found in Jesus.

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Evang gelism Idea Evangelism A stud dent mi inistry decides to invest nvest in 25 c co opies p es off the Ac pies cti S student ministry copies Action Sports edition, Baseb ball edit tion (featuring Albe Albertt P j and other MLB players), and the Football Baseball edition Pujos editi edition (featuring Ladanien Tomlinson, Kurt Warner and other NFL players). Then they bring in an evangelism trainer for a night of training students to share their faith. At the end the youth pastor places copies of the three editions of “Path to Victory” at the front of the room next to bread and juice. The youth pastor leads his students in communion. He challenges students to pray about their relationship with Jesus, and who they should share with. Then he challenges them to stand up, go up to the front, grab an appropriate Bible for the friend God brings to mind, a cup of juice, and a piece of bread. Finally they all take communion together and have a time of prayer over their friends who they will be giving the Bible to.

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Evang gelism Idea Evangelism A church chu urch train ns its people to use e the Go G VIR V RAL AL Str Strategy rategy fro om th o trains VIRAL from the Personal Strate egy Tool ls section ection during a w k Strategy Tools weekend service. As the primary illustration during th i the ttraining, the pastor uses the short film CTRL Z downloaded from www.globalshortfilmnetwork.com. The pastor has two actors acting out on stage a pretend conversation started at a coffee shop using CTRL Z on an iPod. At the end of the training, the pastor gives out a card with instructions for everyone to download the movie CTRL Z from the Global Short Film Network web site for free with a special code pre-paid by the church through Global Short Film Network. He challenges everyone to download CTRL Z onto their laptop, cell phone, iPod, or computer this week and to start a spiritual conversation with an unreached friend using this film in the next seven days.

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What are your favorite aspects from the seven ideas?

What would you want to avoid from the seven ideas?

What do you want to make sure to include outďŹ t your people with tools?

For help on selecting the right outreach tool for your ministry, call Biblica at

1-800-524-1588 What is your plan to use Outreach h Tools in your ministry?

What tool(s) would you like to use?

Who will train how to use?

When will training take place?

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The number one way to get a new believer to grow is to simply get them reading the Bible.

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1. Get two copies of The Journey from Biblica which is a unique layout of the book of John including helpful text introductions and text notes.

2. Give a copy of The Journey to the person you’ve led to Jesus and keep one for yourself.

3. Challenge your friend that you will read The Journey (the Book of John) together over the next four weeks, and get together once a week for coffee to share observations and answer any questions either of you have from the reading.

4. The Journey is about 40 pages long, so read 10 pages a week.

The beauty of The 4 Week Journey is that it is not a cold “New Believer’s” course or class, Instead, it allows them to experience the life of Christ in a simple, one-on-one discipleship relationship completely based on simply ready Scripture and responding.

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www.GrowingInChrist.com

GrowingInChrist.com is a helpful online based initial follow-up tool developed by Campus Crusade for Christ. The web site is a few years old, however it is still very effective. The key to this tool is that its domain name is easy to remember and give to new believers at the end of a conversation. The site leads new believers through the basics of how to grow in their new relationship with Jesus Christ.

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The web site takes new believers through a simple process: •

Start: Where are you in your search for more about God?

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Finding God New Testament

Biblica’s Finding God New Testament was deigned as a Bible for those who are seekign God. It contains introductions and text notes for those seeking God by the people who produced the Life Application Bible. Although it was designed for seekers, it makes the perfect follow up tool for those who have just found Jesus as their Savior. It is inexpensive and the perfect resource to leave a brand new baby Christian to begin understanding and growing in their new relationship.

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The Finding God New Testament is like a Christianity 101 course with helpful study notes including: •

Clear introductions to what each book of the New Testament is about.

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Charts inluding Jesus’ stories, miracles, and evidence that Jesus actually died and rose again.

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Speaker Resources Why not bring a world class evangelism speaker in to train people in your ministry. Best of all, we provide these trainers at no cost to your ministry.

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World Class Evangelism Experts Training Your People At CCU, we beleive God has called us to focas on “A Year of Evangelism.” We also beleive that God is calling us to partner with churches and ministries to see this movement spreak accross Colorado. As such, we desire to come along side the local church to provide resources. Many of these resources are included in this Evangelism Toolkit. Another type of resource we’d like to provide would be world class experts to train your people in evangelism.

Each of the following speakers have agreed to join CCU in the Year of Evangelism movement, and have offered up their experience to this movement. Each has agreed to offer up a limited number of speaking engagements over the next year to train churches and ministries in evangelism. All honorariums and costs will be paid for by Colorado Christian University as in investment in the Body of Christ.

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Lee Strobel

Atheist-turned-Christian Lee Strobel, the former award-winning legal editor of The Chicago Tribune, is a New York Times best-selling author of nearly twenty books, including The Case for Christ, and has been interviewed on numerous national television programs, including ABC’s 20/20, Fox News, and CNN. After a nearly two-year investigation of the evidence for Jesus, Lee received Chist as his forgiver and leader in 1981. Today he is an international voice for the cause of Jesus Christ.

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Mark Mittelberg co-authored with Bill Hybels the best-selling Becoming a Contagious Christian, resulting in a new standard for evangelism traini ng.

Mark also developed a related training course that has since been translated into 20 languages and taught to millions of people around the world .

Mark is also a contributing editor of The Journ ey, a Bible for spiritual seekers. Mark’s passion for equipping people to defend their faith is uniqu ely approachable, humorous and always very practical.

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Greg Stier

Over the course of the last 15 years, Greg Stier has spoken to well over 300,000 teens in major venues across the nation. Greg is well-known for his ability to inspire teenagers to action by communicatin g Biblical truth through amazing true-life storie s and side-splitting humor. This ability to connect with teens has made him a nationally known and sought-after speaker and aughor who spea ks to the heart of teen issues and helps teens ďŹ nd their signiďŹ cance in God. As a dynamic commun icator, Greg has had the priviledge of appearing on several national television and radio shows.

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Larry Crabb

Dr. Larry Crab is a well-known psychologist, conference and seminar speaker, Bible teacher, popular author, and founder/director of NewWay Ministries. Dr. Crabb offers a weekend conference throughooughout the country entitled Life on the Narrow Road and a week-long School of Spiritual Direction.

He currently is Scholar in Residence at CCU and serve a Spiritual Director for the American Association of Christian Counselors. Dr. Crab has authored many books.

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After serving as a youth pastor for the past 16 years, including as the Youth Pastor at Woodmen Valley Chapel in Colorado Springs, Brian has moved into a new role as the Assistant to the President of CCU focusing on the Year of Evangelism.

Brian is a sought after speaker with a unique abilit y to mix practical, biblically based, teaching with an creative heart grabing style. Brian has a passion to train people in how to share their relationship with Jesus.

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Bring an expert on evangelism to train your people Each of these speakers has agreed to join CCU in the Year of Evangelism movement. This is a unique opportunity has offered a limited number of speaking engagements over the next year to train churches and ministries in evangelism Best of all, Colorado Christian University is willing to pay all costs to bring these speakers to your ministry as our gift to you.

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Only 1 in 5 Christians Students follow Christ in College Studies all over the country are discovering that most students who attend church during their high school years will continue going to church upon graduation from high school. Many studies are focusing on why students are leaving. At CCU, we are offering the opportunity for your ministry to discover why students stay.

CCU attracts students from all over the country who are passionate about living out the life of Christ. Many are passionate to share what God has done in their lives. Stories are a powerful tool in reaching people for Christ. During CCU’s Year of Evangelism, we are giving churches around Colorado the opportunity to explose their people to the powerful stories of college students whose lives have been transformed by Jesus Christ.

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hen I was a child, my dad read the Bible to me every morning before school. Sitting at the dining table, I’d spoon a steaming bowl of oatmeal and listen to him. On one of those mornings, I accepted Christ as my Savior.

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Of course things weren’t perfect after that. My life was full of people who kept me grounded in the Scriptures and challenged me to pursue God. But it wasn’t until after high school that my faith really came of age.

I enrolled in a six-month Youth with a Mission program along Australia’s Sunshine Coast. During that time, I began to internalize the distinct difference between asking God into my life and weaving His presence into all parts of it. One night I declared, This is real and you are real—take me, Father, I’m yours. It was like God took me by the hand and walked me straight into His personality and nature.

Since coming to CCU, my spiritual growth has been taken to the next level. Everyone is so real and strives to be in God’s presence without pretense. It’s been refreshing, challenging, transforming, and purifying.

I’ve also learned the value of solitude with God, and since nature is a great place for that, where better to live than right beside the vast mountains? Every day they inspire me. I feel like a little child basking in Christ’s splendor.

“As a father, I wanted to lead all my children in the prayer of salvation, and God granted me that prayer beginning with Rachel. Attending CCU has empowered her to actively seek God's will for her future.

Being far from home has taught her to balance personal independence with embracing God and the community He’s given her. It is a continual joy to watch her mature into womanhood and work out her salvation.” ¶ GdY EZccZg! GVX]Za»h YVY

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Of course things weren’t perfect after that. My life was full of people who kept me grounded in the Scriptures and challenged me to pursue God. But it wasn’t until after high school that my faith really came of age.

I enrolled in a six-month Youth with a Mission program along Australia’s Sunshine Coast. During that time, I began to internalize the distinct difference between asking God into my life and weaving His presence into all parts of it. One night I declared, This is real and you are real—take me, Father, I’m yours. It was like God took me by the hand and walked me straight into His personality and nature.

Since coming to CCU, my spiritual growth has been taken to the next level. Everyone is so real and strives to be in God’s presence without pretense. It’s been refreshing, challenging, transforming, and purifying.

I’ve also learned the value of solitude with God, and since nature is a great place for that, where better to live than right beside the vast mountains? Every day they inspire me. I feel like a little child basking in Christ’s splendor.

“As a father, I wanted to lead all my children in the prayer of salvation, and God granted me that prayer beginning with Rachel. Attending CCU has empowered her to actively seek God's will for her future.

Being far from home has taught her to balance personal independence with embracing God and the community He’s given her. It is a continual joy to watch her mature into womanhood and work out her salvation.” ¶ GdY EZccZg! GVX]Za»h YVY

RACHEL PENNER Major: Biology, Pre-Med Studies Hometown: Marble Falls, TX

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hen I was a child, my dad read the Bible to me every morning before school. Sitting at the dining table, I’d spoon a steaming bowl of oatmeal and listen to him. On one of those mornings, I accepted Christ as my Savior.

Owning My Faith

Of course things weren’t perfect after that. My life was full of people who kept me grounded in the Scriptures and challenged me to pursue God. But it wasn’t until after high school that my faith really came of age.

I enrolled in a six-month Youth with a Mission program along Australia’s Sunshine Coast. During that time, I began to internalize the distinct difference between asking God into my life and weaving His presence into all parts of it. One night I declared, This is real and you are real—take me, Father, I’m yours. It was like God took me by the hand and walked me straight into His personality and nature.

Since coming to CCU, my spiritual growth has been taken to the next level. Everyone is so real and strives to be in God’s presence without pretense. It’s been refreshing, challenging, transforming, and purifying.

I’ve also learned the value of solitude with God, and since nature is a great place for that, where better to live than right beside the vast mountains? Every day they inspire me. I feel like a little child basking in Christ’s splendor.

“As a father, I wanted to lead all my children in the prayer of salvation, and God granted me that prayer beginning with Rachel. Attending CCU has empowered her to actively seek God's will for her future.

Being far from home has taught her to balance personal independence with embracing God and the community He’s given her. It is a continual joy to watch her mature into womanhood and work out her salvation.” ¶ GdY EZccZg! GVX]Za»h YVY

RACHEL PENNER Major: Biology, Pre-Med Studies Hometown: Marble Falls, TX

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Dare2Share Uncensored Evangelism Podcast Dare2Share provides amazing evangelism training for free at the Dare2Share web site and on iTunes. Each Uncensored Podcast is available in multiple formats including an audio version, video version, and a PDF of printable notes for yourself, or to train the people of your ministry with. This is an excellent resource.

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Think It Thru Podcast Randall Niles is a Christian apologist and radio host from Colorado Springs. Randall hosts a weekly radio show dealing with apologetics and defending the faith. The Think it Thru podcast allows on-demand access to past shows with invaluable tools on the hard questions and apologetics for Christianity in general.

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The Year of Evangelism Podcast (Fall 2010) Beginning in Fall 2010, The Year of Evangelism will feature a weekly podcast focusing on evangelism. The podcast will feature experts on evangelism from around the world including Lee Strobel, Mark Mittleberg, Greg Stier, Larry Crabb, and more.

Available at www.ccu.edu.com.

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www.Dare2Share.org Dare2Share is an organization that exists to train students in how to share their relationship with Jesus. However, their web site is a resources to everyone how has a heart to reach people for Jesus Christ. Dare2Share.org contains tons of free training, resources, and teaching on the heart, skills, and strategies to reach people for Jesus. Be sure to check out Soul Fuel, a section of the site with ideas to use current media to bring up sharing Christ in a relationship.

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Global Short Film Network The Global Short Film Network was created by Campus Crusade for Christ and provides a wide selection of short films geared towards starting spiritual conversations. Each film is available for a small fee ($1.99) for download to an iPhone, iPod, computer, or laptop. The site also has solid training on how to use the films in evangelism as well as video of the films being used in real life situations. The site also offers a “Featured Film” that you can download for free upon registration.

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www.LeeStrobel.com Lee Strobel’s web site is a great resource for anyone looking for resources for evangelism and apologetics. In particular, the video channels are particularly useful featuring the top pastors, leaders, and professors from around the world speaking on topics of apologetics and evangelism.

Available at www.LeeStrobel.com

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www.QuestionGod.info Dr. Tim Keller has had an amazing ministry in the heart of New York City effectively reaching a highly intelligent and successful audience. QuestionGod.info is a web resource for deep thinking people who are seeking or trying to reach friends and family or are seeking who are looking for deep answers to difďŹ cult questions.

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My Soularium My Soularium is a follow-up web site developed by Campus Crusade for Christ for people who have gone through Soularium. Soularium is a tool of 50 pictures and a few questions to spark spiritual conversations with people. The images are very powerful and this site provides a way for people to process through what is going on in their heart and join in a conversation about a journey with God.

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www.ReadThisBeforeYouDie.com Read This Before You Die is a creative interactive gospel experience targeting the inner-city-hip-hop culture. It uses a smooth user interface, rap music, and visual demonstrations to tell the story of the gospel.

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www.AllAboutGod.com All About God.com is a compelling website that reaches out to skeptics, seekers, believers, and a hurting world with powerful evidence for God and the gospel of Jesus Christ. All About God.com is produced by Randall Niles, a skeptic turned believer who now has dedicated his life to providing amazing resources in world view, apologetics, and evangelism. All About God.com literally has hundreds of articles full of powerful evidence and research.

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ROCK THE RIVER - BGEA The Rock the River Tour is a ministry of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association coming to the Denver area Summer/Fall 2011. Franklin Graham has taken the reigns from his father and is now holding festivals around the country to reach people for Jesus Christ. As with any other BGEA the training offered to churches and ministries is incredible. This event is much bigger than one day, or festival, but instead offers amazing evangelistic training to the entire community of Denver.

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www.IAmSecond.com I Am Second is a powerful website gathering the stories of celebrities from all walks of life who have been transformed

by Jesus Christ. Celebrities include musicians, athletes, coaches, actors and more who have made God ďŹ rst in their lives. This website is a powerful tool in reaching people for Jesus Christ.

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Becoming a Contagious Christian Course ourse The popular Becoming a Contagious Christian training program has been completely updated and revised as a church-wide campaign. Many churches have done the Becoming a Contagious Christian course for a few members in the past. But now, here is your opportunity to equip everyone in your church with the new church-wide program.

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Gospel Journey Maui Seven strangers. Seven different religions. Thrown together in a beach house on Maui for a week of raw, real spiritual conversation--all captured on ďŹ lm for the reality series GOSPEL Journey Maui. Designed to help teens take on some of life’s biggest questions. Questions like: Is there a higher power? What is the purpose of life? Why do bad things happen? And provide them solid, Biblical answers.

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Gospel Journey Adventure Set in the beautiful Rocky Mountains, this ultimate spiritual adventure is designed to be used as an evangelism training tool for your Christian teens and an evangelistic outreach tool for non-Christian teens.

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One Verse Evangelism To begin using this tool tell the person you are sharing with that you can summarize everything you believe in one verse. Then ask if you could share it with them.

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

wages If they say then write out Romans 6:23 on a napkin or piece of paper: “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (NIV).

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1) Circle the word Then ask, “How would you feel if your boss refused to pay you the wages that were due to you?” A wage is something we earn, and deserve. Make a box and write the word “wage” in it.

2) Circle the word Then ask your friend what he thinks when he hears this word. Ask him to give some examples of sin (usually they’ll say big sins like murder, etc....Make sure to point out smaller sins like lying or cheating). Ask them if they've ever sinned. Point out we all sin, and when we sin it creates a gap between us and God. Draw two opposing cliffs with a gap in between.

3) Circle this word and ask what thoughts come to mind. Point out that to most people death is the end, it is eternal separation from God.

This is an important part of the tool. Stop and have them do the “math.” Say, “According to this verse, if we sin, what do we earn as a wage?

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Ask them, “According to this verse, who gave us this gift?” It is from God Himself.

7) Circle the words . Then ask, “How would you define these words?” Ask, “What is the opposite of separation from God?” The Bible defines “eternal life” as eternity in heaven with God. This is another important checkpoint in the tool. At this point contrast one side of the cliff, death, with the other side, eternal life. Make sure they see that when we sin we earn death, but God offers a free gift of eternal life.

Draw two stick figures representing you and the person you are sharing with.

Say, “Because we have sinned, we’ve earned death. Thus, we are on this side of the gap. Now, we can try many things to try and jump this canyon, such as: ” Being a good person (draw an arrow lightly) Going to church or religion (draw an arrow lightly) Trying not to sin (draw an arrow lightly) Regardless of what we try, we can’t bridge the gap on our own because we still sin.

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One Verse Evangelism Explain that since sin earns the wage of death. Someone has to pay that wage and this verse explains who paid that wage and how God purchased our gift of eternal life.

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8) Write the Name sin and draw a cross around it so that it creates a bridge from one side of the gap to the other. death Explain that God sent His son Jesus as a gift for us. Explain that Jesus never sinned, but so he never earned the wage of death.

But despite not earning death He took our place, and paid our wage of death that we earned from our sin. He died so that we don’t have to die from sin, but instead we can receive the gift of life. We can cross over from death to life.

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Explain that this gift is just like any other gift. Say,“If I went out and got you this pen and wrapped it up and put your name on it as a gift, would it be your’s yet?”

They will usually say “No” Say,“What do you have to do for it to be yours?”

The obvious answer is they have to accept it.

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Explain that to accept this gift of eternal life we make Jesus Christ the Lord of our life.

Explain that Jesus didn’t stay dead on the cross, instead he conquered death and after three days in the grave He rose from the dead. That means that even today we can have a relationship with him.

Explain that making Jesus your Lord means you begin that relationship by giving your life to Him. He calls the shots and you follow after Him. Eternal life doesn’t start in heaven, it starts now with an amazing relationship with Him. At this point ask him if he wants to start a relationship with God that will last forever. If he says, “Yes,” invite him to pray a short prayer in his own words, asking Jesus to forgive him.

Adapted with permission from One-Verse Evangelism, ©2000 Randy D. Raysbrook. All rights reserved.

One Verse Evangelism 8) On your own, practice writing out the entire One Verse Evangelism Tool two times in the following two spaces:

9) Now, find a partner and practice giving tool to them.

Start with the oldest partner being the “Christian” and the younger being the un-reached friend.

Practice drawing out and explaining the tool.

The younger should give feedback, and then switch places.

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Then take your un-reached friend to a coffee shop. As the conversation grows deeper and turns spiritual, ask them if they’d have ever felt like life isn’t worth it, or if they’ve ever felt lost, or distant from any purpose, or even from God. Then you can joke and say, “There’s an app for that.” Pull out your iPhone and bring up the “Life to the Full” app.

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Have the younger partner be the “Christian” and the older partner be the “unreached friend.” The “Christian” should practice sharing the gospel with the friend using the GOSPEL Journey tool. After they have done this, switch roles and practice giving the gospel again.

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Each believer has a number of people who God has placed in their “orbit,” or within their sphere of influence.

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In this example, a believer named Jordan is the planet in the middle. God has allowed this Jordan to influence several unbelievers including Matt, Kevin, Jake, Dan, and Rob. Each of these five unbelievers is in the sphere of influence of Jordan . However, at this time, God has two in particular in “close orbit” around Jordan . Jake is in constant “orbit” around Jordan. God consistently has their paths cross. Jordan must be aware that God has Jordan involved in Jake’s life for a purpose. Jake becomes priority number one for Jordan to take intentional steps to share his faith with.

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What about the other three? Should Jordan not be intuitional about sharing his faith with them?

Obviously not. God has them on Jordan’s evangelism radar screen.

With these three, Jordan should keep his radar “engaged” and watch and pray for opportunities to share relationship with Christ with them.

3) Keeping our “radar” engaged means we are constantly looking for opportunities in every relationship.

When our radar is engaged we seek to live according to God’s purpose for our relationships.

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We use the Space Tool to help people recognize who God has on their “radar.” Once these people are identified, use the second part of the Space/Walk Strategy which is the Walk Tool. The Walk Tool is designed to help people know what to do with the people God has on their radar.

4) The Walk Tool is a continuum for people to see how they can respond to help people who God has on their radar screen closer to Jesus Christ.

In this example you will see the five people on Jordan’s Space Tool mapped out on the continuum.

Rob and Kevin are both “Hostile to Jesus.” Both Kevin and Rob want nothing to do with Jesus, in fact the get defensive and upset anytime Jordan talks about Jesus. Note, that even though Kevin is “Hostile to Jesus,” God still has placed Kevin in orbit on Jordan’s radar screen (from the Space tool). Even though Kevin is hostile to Jesus, God still has ith? w Jordan feeling called to intentionally share his relationship with Jesus to alk w Kevin. to Matt, Jake, and Dan are all “Interested in Jesus.” They are all seeking answers and interested in talking about d Go Jesus. Dan is closer than Jake or Matt, but s e none of them have crossed the line of do o accepting Jesus as their personal Wh Savior.

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4) On the back of this sheet write out one thing you can do with each person to walk them closer to Jesus?

3) Draw arrows representing you walking alongside one or two people on your Walk Tool.

2) Graph out on the coninuum the names of the ďŹ ve people you drew on the Space Tool above in relation to where they are in their journey towards a relationship with Jesus Christ.

1) Draw a circle with your name representing where you are on your journey in your relationship with Jesus.

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A 4th person on your radar

Write a name of an unreached person God has on primary orbit for you to reach.

Who has God placed in my radar... ...that God wants me to walk with?

Write a name of an unreached person God has on secondary orbit for you to reach.

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Go VIRAL Strategy Most of us have experienced a “viral” video. We’re sitting at our desk, someone calls out “You’ve got to see this!” Everyone gathers around their desk to watch the latest hilarious or amazing video off YouTube. Everyone has a laugh and then go back to their desk to email that same video to every friend in their contact list--and the video “virus” spreads. This phenomenon occurs every day at offices, homes, and school around the world.

What if we took this same approach to new media tools for evangelism? Here’s strategy to go “VIRAL” with these amazing tools using the acronym “V.I.R.A.L.” To find great evangelistic viral videos go to www.globalshortfilmnetwork.com.

7 t View the Media Before you use any media tool to share your relationship with Jesus, make sure you the media tool yourself.

When we say “view” we mean completely experience the tool.

If you are planning to use a short film on your iPhone, watch it thoroughly, don’t just wing it. Here’s some questions to keep in mind: 1) What feelings and thoughts does this tool bring up in my heart & mind?

2) How will I use this tool to launch into a deeper or spiritual conversation?

3) How will I use this tool to listen to my friend’s story?

4) How will I use this tool to share my own story with my friend?

5) How will I use this tool to share the story of the gospel?

* t Invite them to View After you are comfortable with the tool, an unreached friend to watch the tool with you. This can be as simple as saying: “I just watched this, you have to check it out.”

“I thought you’d like this” Watch it on your Laptop or iPod hanging out at Starbucks. Watch it with them in your cube. Post it on Facebook. Send an email. Just find a way to invite them to watch it. Ideally, try to watch it with them. Since you’ve seen it before you can pray for them in your heart as they watch it. Pray God would use the video to open up their heart to His presence.

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Go VIRAL Strategy 3 t Ask their Response After your friend has viewed the media tool, simply ask them to Be a tactful question asker. Make it your goal to really grasp how they are processing what they experienced.

GENERAL QUESTIONS 1) What did you think about it?

2) How did you feel?

3) What was your favorite scene or part?

SPECIFIC QUESTIONS 1) What did 2) Why did she

represent? ?

PERSONAL QUESTIONS 1) If this were you, how would you have responded?

2) How do you relate to the person in this?

" t Ask if you can Share Springboard into sharing your relationship with Jesus by permision to share how you personally experienced the media.

1) Share how your personal story or journey with Jesus relates to the person in the media story.

2) Share how you resolved the issue brought up in the media.

3) Use an evangelism tool to share the story of the gospel.

- t Leave a Next Step After you’ve shared the story of the gospel, them a next step.

The next step will depend upon how they are processessing through the media, how they are responding to what you are sharing, where they are in their journey, and ultimately what the Holy Spirit is doing in their life. Here are some next step options you can give them: 1) Invite them to begin a relationship with Jesus Christ.

2) Invite them to watch another media with you.

3) Invite them to your small group.

4) Give them a book to read through.

5) Invite them to go to church with you.

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www.leestrobel.com

Lee Strobel was an award winning legal reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Upon investigating Jesus Christ he gave his life to Jesus. Lee Strobel has dedicated his life to helping other investigate the truths of Jesus.

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www.contagiouschristian.com

Mark Mittelberg is a best-selling author and sought-after speaker. Mark was the evangelism director at Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago for many years. Now he trains people across the country to share their faith.

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An organization dedicated getting the Bible in the hands of people around the world. They provide inexpensive Scripture and Bible based outreach and follow up tools.

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Campus Crusade for Christ An organization dedicated to helping build spiritual movements everywhere so everyone knows someone who truly follows Jesus Christ.

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www.billygraham.org

Spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ by every means possible including crusades, youth festivals and projects of compassion.

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www.navigators.org/us

The US branch of an evangelism and discipleship training organization equipping Christians for a life of faith through one-to-one relationships and small-group studies focused on discipleship.

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An organization dedicated reaching young people for Jesus Christ through relationships.

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Luis Palau Association

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An organization that conducts evangelistic outreach and festivals around the world in both English and Spanish.

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Franklin Graham has taken up the reigns of his father and now is partnering with the hottest bands in the country to put on all day festivals geared towards reaching the next generation for Jesus Christ. The methods may have changed but the message remains the same. Rock the River is about reaching people for Jesus Christ!

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