I was sad to read that Roy Fish passed away on Monday at age 82. Roy is a true great for those of us who love evangelism. In memory of him, here are my top 3 favorite Roy Fish books: Every Member Evangelism for Today Preaching Evangelistically Evangelism in a Changing World Roy served Southwestern Baptist Seminary for nearly 50 … Read More
Kick Off the Season and Reach More People with A Fall Big Day (now’s the time to prepare)
Summer is in its final throes across the U.S. That means autumn is fast approaching, bringing it with it one of the greatest opportunities you have all year to reach the people of your community with a Big Day! A big day is an all-out push toward a single Sunday for the purpose of breaking the next growth barrier and … Read More
Over 100 Baptisms in 3 Weeks! Plus FREE Webinar Recording
There is nothing more exciting to me than celebrating Baptism! I love the imagery, the public profession of faith and the tangible picture of lives transformed by Jesus. That’s why just last week I led a series of brand new webinars called “7 Ways to Increase Your Baptisms” (more on that below – including how you can watch a free … Read More
Bonhoeffer on Baptism
“The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ crucified. It is to this image that the life of the disciples must be conformed; in other words, they must be conformed to his death (Phil 3.10, Rom 6.4). The Christian life is a life of crucifixion (Gal 2.19) In baptism the … Read More
Spurgeon, Lucado, Havner and Nee on Baptism
“A man who knows that he is saved by believing in Christ does not, when he is baptized, lift his baptism into a saving ordinance. In fact, he is the very best protester against that mistake, because he holds that he has no right to be baptized until he is saved.” – Charles Spurgeon “Baptism separates the tire kickers from the car buyers.” – … Read More
Theologian Wayne Grudem on Baptism
“Our justification from sins takes place at the point of saving faith, not at the point of water baptism, which usually occurs later. But if a person is already justified and has sins forgiven eternally at the point of saving faith, then baptism is not necessary for forgiveness of sins nor for the bestowal of new spiritual life. Baptism, then, is not necessary for salvation. … Read More
7 Ways to Increase Your Baptisms – Free Webinars this Week
In all my years of coaching pastors and working with other churches, I’ve never once met a pastor who said “We’re baptizing all we can…” The truth is ALL of our churches could be baptizing more people. And Baptism ignites the fire of evangelism in a church more so than any other activity – your people get to see a … Read More
How You Can Celebrate and Raise the Value of Baptism in Your Church (FREE Video)
In case you missed it, this week I’m celebrating our recent Beach Baptisms at The Journey by giving you some tools to help you Baptize more people in your church. Today I want to tell you about a POWERFUL (and underused) technique to challenge and motivate more people to be baptized… THE BAPTISM VIDEO! There’s nothing like seeing people experiencing the joy … Read More
How to Follow Up with People Who Have Been Baptized (Free Download)
Not sure if you’ve heard (I’ve been trying to tell everyone I know – ha!) – we’ve baptized 85 people at The Journey’s summer beach baptisms over the last 3 weeks! That puts us over 1,200 new believers baptized since The Journey launched in 2002 – Go God! Since I’ve got Baptism on the brain, I’m giving away my personal … Read More
How You Can Make a BIG Impact This Summer!
We are putting the finishing touches on all our preparations for our “God on Film” series and I thought I would share a few ideas with you today to spark some thoughts on how you can make a bigger impact this summer. If you don’t plant in the Summer you will beg in the Fall. We do a series each summer … Read More