Fall Retreat!

50 + students, 8 staff and visitors dropping by throughout the weekend made this retreat unforgettable (accept getting destroyed playing paintball - I'm still trying to forget that, thanks a lot Nikki!). The retreat was amazing. This picture is a picture of Jake, Joseph and Ben leading us in an amazing time of praise (GREAT job this weekend guys). It was great getting to spend so much time with so many students and seeing God work in all of our lives. We're 6 weeks in to the new school year and the retreat couldn't have come at a better time. We had a ton of fun, developed amazing relationships, ate great food,  and grew in our walks with God. The theme of the retreat was "Eternal Perspective." Leah started it all out with a talk on "Eternal Citizens." She did a great job clarifying the 2 kingdoms and clearly shared the gospel. Check out her talk here: 

Erin (my beautiful wife) continued, discussing "Eternal Hope" in light of the pain and suffering around us. Get her notes here and listen to her amazing talk below.

I concluded the retreat talking about "Eternal Significance" and life purpose. Get my notes here and the MP3 below. 

Retreats are always amazing! Watch the video below for a little more on what they're all about and students, get ready for the next one - mark Nov. 4-6 on your calendars!

QR Code Evangelism

You've seen them, the weird, square bar code things (pictured above). They're actually called QR codes if you didn't know and they are a neat way to share info with the growing smartphone owning population. You can scan these with a QR code scanning app. I have the free QRReader app for my Iphone. You simply download the app onto your phone, then open it and scan the QR code and it will send you to whatever the code is linked to. In this case (the picture above) it is linked to everystudent.com, a great evangelistic site (go ahead and try scanning this picture and you'll figure out what I'm talking about). So that's where I'm going with this, why not use this media trend to share the Good News?

It is simple. Find an evangelistic site you would like to share with non-christians (here are a few possibilities) or write a note on your blog and copy the URL for whatever website you choose to use and paste it into the "Enter URL" section at quickqr.com. Then click the "Generate Code" button.

That will produce a .png image of your QR code that will direct anyone that scans it to the evangelistic site you choose. You could then upload that to facebook, other social media, e-mails or just print it off with a little note that you could leave around town. You could try to come up with creative ways to get people to scan it - like saying, "answers to life's questions" and then the picture of the QR code.

Whatever you do, this is one more simple way to share your faith. Why not give it a shot? Let me know what you think and how it works for you! Here's my example:

Evangelism Idea: Share on a Bus!!!

This is a really simple idea. Share on a bus! I was recently riding on my dad's bus and had numerous conversations about Christ and was amazed by the number of people he had been sharing with as well. It is very easy to meet someone by saying "hi" when they or you first get on the bus. From there you can quickly start a conversation and begin transitioning through the sound barriers. Usually, you'll have a captive audience long enough to share your testimony and/or go through a gospel presentation. It also seems that many of the people you'll find on the bus will be down and out and seriously needing prayer and encouragement. You'll undoubtedly have opportunities to pray for them as well. This is a super easy way to practice sharing your faith. Just head to the bus station, pray, get on a bus, and go for it! As Bill Bright would say, "Take the initiative in the power of the Holy Spirit and then trust the results to God!"

Crush Fear 2011 was AMAZING!!!

Thanks for your patience the past 2 weeks (I haven't blogged since the Crush Fear project started)! It was unbelievable. 30 students from all over the US were here for 2 weeks of crushing fear to remove the bariers to all God has called them to be. These students were pretty much AWESOME!!! We did a ton of activities, had numerous training sessions each day, ate weird food, raised money for ministry to Muslims, shared the Good News and had a blast. You can also check out the CF students on the radio by clicking here! We're tired right now but also feel like we're still floating. Have I mentioned that it was an amazing time? For all you students, we already miss you a TON!!! Spending the past 2 weeks couped up in the lodge with you was one of the greatest times of our lives. Keep going hard for Jesus! Well, check out the video below for a quick view of some of what happened on Crush Fear 2011. More stories to come!!! P.S. Please click follow to the left to follow our blog! Thanks!

The Share Acronym!

Here's a little acronym (SHARE) to help you share "the Good News that He saves" each day (Ps.96:2)!

Spend time with God! Get in His Word, pray and walk in the power of His Spirit!

Have an expectant attitude! Look for opportunities and expect God to use you!

Ask Questions:

1. Ask a conversation starting question.

2. Follow that up with a transition question.

Ex. What’s been your experience with Christianity?

3. Transition to the gospel by asking if you can share how they can know God personally.

Resources: Use transferable resources like the "Jesus tract" or the KGP and be ready to share your testimony.

Encourage those you share with!!! Help them take the next step and help them get plugged in!

“Take the intiative in the power of the Holy Spirit and then trust the results to God.” - Bill Bright

People Like Jesus!

Lat week we got the opportunity to share the "Jesus tract" on campus (check that out here). I wanted to know if our thinking on this was right so I asked a student that came by, "On a scale of 1 to 10, what would you think about the question, 'would you like to hear how the Bible says you can become a Christian?'" He replied, "a 2, not very interested." I then asked, "on a scale of 1 to 10, what do you think about Jesus?" He replied, "a 10, Jesus was awesome!" I then asked, "would you be interested in hearing what Jesus tells you personally?" He said, "absolutely!" This is exactly what I expected. People might not like the church but they don't have those bad views about Jesus. If we want to share Christ with people I think it is vitally important to reach out to them based on their high perspective of Jesus! That's why were developing the "Jesus tract" (get it here).  

1 Cor.3:11 - "For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ."

Evangelism Idea: Share a Verse!

God's Word is powerful and God's Word always changes peoples' hearts and minds! We often make the mistake of trying to share the Gospel without actually going to scripture. We can also believe the lie that people won't appreciate scripture until they know Christ. So here's an evangelism challenge: look for opportunities to share a verse with people you cross paths with! You could share a verse that God has been using in your life and tell a non-Christian friend or co-worker what you've been learning. You could share an encouraging verse with a non-Christian friend or co-worker that is going through a hard time. You could post a verse on facebook. You could also transition to a verse in conversation with a stranger and see where that leads. I did this the other day and it wasn't awkward at all. I got up to the line at Walmart and saw a gentleman waiting. I asked him, "are you in line?" He said, "no, just looking for my wife." I immediately responded, "I don't know whether you've ever read the Bible but the Bible says he who finds a wife finds a good thing." The man laughed and responded, "well I hope when I find her she doesn't have too much in her cart." At that point the line opened up and, being in a hurry, I had to go. I didn't get to go further in that conversation but realized how easily that fun verse transitioned the conversation to a spiritual conversation! Whether you're bringing up a verse with a stranger, co-worker, neighbor, friend or relative, sharing God's Word with people is always a good way to get into a spiritual conversation! 

There is a student that has been coming by to get a random verse from me in the cafeteria on a very regular basis the last few years (It was great seeing you in church yesterday Stephen!!!). Once he asked me for a random verse and the random verse I opened up to had to do with salvation. That opened up into a conversation about the gospel and a lot more verses. About a week later another guy I had met a time or two came up and told me, "you remember how you were talking to that other student about receiving Christ last week?" I said, "yes." He continued, "I've always been spiritual and have always watched church services on TV every Sunday but something was always missing. As I eavesdropped on your conversation last week I realized the thing that was missing was receiving Christ. I had never done what you were talking about so I took that step last week. Thank you for sharing that verse with that other student." Wow!!! That amazing story would never have happened if I hadn't been applying this idea. 

So the challenge for today, bring up a verse in some conversation you are having and see where it leads! Have a great day!

14 Fun Easter Evangelism Ideas!

Happy Easter! Easter is here and what a great time to share your faith! I am listing several Easter evangelism ideas below. Some of these came from Campus Crusade for Christ's 10 Easter evangelism ideas and Evangelism.net's 6 Easter evangelism ideas. Each of those posts have other ideas I haven't listed here and we've also added a few of our own. I figured it would be easiest to put them into one post in stead of trying to cram them into 12 posts over the next few days.

1. Do an Easter Egg hunt with Resurrection Eggs (buy them here). Invite friends' and Relatives' kids over and share the real reason for Easter! This activity will open up conversations with the parents about the gospel as well.

2. Invite people to a sunrise service or your church's Easter service. Get info on that here.

3. Share the evidence. There are a ton of great reasons to believe, with confidence, that Jesus rose from that grave 2,000 years ago. Share those evidences with your friends. Our "God Solution" radio show will focus on that evidence this week. Check out this post with more ideas on this topic. Get this week's God Solution show on that topic below (and get our notes, with a lot of the evidence, here). Please click here and share this link with friends that you think would be interested in hearing the evidence for Easter.

4. Give your friends a good card with an Easter message (here are a few ideas from Christmas about picking a good card to share with - you can easily adapt them to Easter).

5. Give out a great book. Lee Stroble's "The Case for Easter" would be a great little handout. You can get it here (in bulk) for $1.50 each. "I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist" would also be a good choice. Include a good card.

6. Give out a great DVD. You could give them "The Passion of the Christ" (get them ridiculously cheap here) or something different. Include a good card.

7. Create an Easter gift basket for friends, co-workers, kids or neighbors. Include an invite to your church, reading material about easter or a movie (you could include some of the ideas above in this gift basket or just keep it simple).

8. Share a short Easter message online (you could use our online evangelism ideas here).

9. Ask someone if they celebrate Easter. You could modify this Christmas evangelism idea for Easter.

10. Host a Passover celebration. This is a fun, interesting and unique cultural experience that most of your friends would love to be invited to. Here are few ideas for getting started. A lot of churches are starting to do this so you could invite people to a local Passover celebration if there is one happening in your city. We'll be doing one here (get the facebook invite here). The main point is to bring Christ and the Gospel into every aspect of the meal. Check out this short video on Christ in the Passover.

11. Host an Easter celebration. Go all out. Host a huge Easter meal and gat-together. Invite friends, neighbors and relatives. Then, make sure to mention the reason for the celebration.

12. You could also bake a bunch of Easter cookies and share them, and the gospel, with friends. Get more info on that here.

13. Witness at Church!!! Get more on that here. 

14. After Easter, ask people you see next week what they did for Easter. This will open up a conversation about Easter that you can then bring back to the Gospel.

Well, I hope you enjoy applying these 12 evangelism ideas. Whatever you do, please demolish the number one reason people don't believe Jesus rose from the dead. Let me know if you have any others to add to the list and please let us know how it goes when you try these! Check out the video below and have a great day!

The "Jesus Tract"

(Update: here's what happened 1st time we tried this out). The average young person (college students included) have fairly low opinions of the church (they think church is religion and religion is bad), Christians (they think we're all hypocrites) and the Bible (most of them, even Christians, believe it is full of errors). Even though those 3 opinions are all wrong, we can get into trouble when we package the gospel as "how the Bible says you can become a Christian." Jesus, on the other hand, has a great reputation. Young people across the board think He's great (they may not know who He really is but they think highly of Him). To add to the confusion, most tracts encourage a "personal relationship with Jesus" but rarely if ever even quote Him. Christians know the Bible is all His Word but the non-believer your talking with hasn't quite gotten there yet. For the past 2 years I've been wondering how to use that high perspective of Jesus to initiate conversations about the gospel from a better starting point, one of His direct words. In stead of saying, "Do you want to know how the Bible says you can become a Christian" (or something to that effect), I want to ask them, "would you like to hear what Jesus says to you personally?" Based on that premise, I put the "Gospel from Jesus' Mouth" up on the blog last summer and it has become our most read post (with almost 3,000 reads). We have also been handing out printed single page versions of this on campus and everyone seems to appreciate it. I finally got a chance to put it into a "tract" form to be used in evangelistic conversations. I haven't even used it yet and would love your feedback. Get the new tract here. This is just a rough draft but I'd love to see how it works in real conversations. Print it 2 sided front and back, then fold, staple and cut along the yellow border. Then, use it just like you'd use the KGP (see the training video below). You could transition to this tool as you'd transition through any of the sound barriers and then just share this and see how it goes. I would LOVE (!!!) to get your feedback on how it goes and anything you think would improve it. Let me know. Thanks!

Japan!

Everyone is talking about Japan! What a tragedy. Before I go any further, please remember to pray for those in Japan and please donate to the relief effort. That being said, there are a lot of people all over the world wondering how something like this could happen. They are searching for hope! Some are asking how a good, loving and all powerful God could allow this (for great answers to that question, listen to our most recent episode of "The God Solution" by clicking here). Each one of us should be sharing the hope we have with them! A great way to get to the gospel in this situation would be to bring up Biblical prophecy about these types of issues. Earthquakes, tsunamis and much more are prophesied in scripture. God’s Word prophesies sickness and disease, earthquakes and famines, tsunamis and hurricanes, hail and fire will destroy most of earth’s plant life, some hail reaching up to 100 lbs, metorites, death of sea life, rivers turning into blood, hard core Global Warming, darkness, terrible drought (the Euphrates dries), the largest earthquake in history, islands and mountains will be devastated and eventually the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light; metorites will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken (in Mt.24, Mk.13, Lk.21, and Rev.6, 8, 9 and 16). Those prophesies can bring up a spiritual conversation which you can easily transition to the gospel. Probably even more important than that though, is to be able and ready to share the only Good News, God's love and hope, with those you happen to be talking to about this, especially if they have been personally impacted by this tragedy. You can get more ideas by checking out our post on transitioning to the gospel from anything in the news by clicking here. Also, for more on how to understand this and other end times phenomena, check out the MP3 below. Have a great day and don't forget to pray for Japan!

How to Share the Gospel in a Conversation About Music.

Our society is addicted to music! So how can you get to the gospel from a conversation about music? Simple! Follow these 3 easy steps. 1) If your favorite band or musician is Christian than share that in a conversation about music. It is a very simple way to bring Christ into the conversation. Check out this interview with U2's Bono! Back in college I was a huge punk rock fan and took ever opportunity I could in conversations about music to bring up some of my favorite bands. This always opened up into a conversation about Christ! 2) Do the artist or bands in the discussion have any lyrics that could get back to the gospel? Mention those, even if they're negative, and then work through the sound barriers. I also used to like the Smashing Pumpkins and would often bring up one of their lyrics which said, "Emptiness is lonliness and lonliness is cleanliness and cleanliness is godliness and God is empty just like me." I would then use that terrible line to ask whoever I was talking to what they thought and then transition to the gospel from there. Even if the lyrics are terrible, they may still provide a way to bring up the gospel. 3) Do the artists or bands being discussed address any social, moral or historical issues that you could bring a Christian perspective to? Look for opportunities to discuss your faith when talking about music with an important message.

Those are just a few ways to get to the gospel from any music you happen to be talking about. Please share any other ideas you have by commenting on this post!

Blood Donation Evangelism

I met my friend "S" while giving blood a while back. I knew that instant God had been telling me to share with her. After giving blood we were both in the waiting room along with her partner and a few other people. As I transitioned through the sound barriers and shared the Good News I found that "S," like so many people, was searching for Jesus. After that I have made it a point to try to stop by her work place (a retail store), with Erin (my wife), to keep connecting with her and sharing with her. Yesterday I ran into her at the store. I asked, "What's new in your life?" She replied, "I started going to church." I asked her what led her to do that and she said, "I started reading the Bible and found out Jesus is a really nice guy." I don't think she's trusted him as Savior and Lord yet but she continued, saying, "I want to start doing jail ministry as well." I was shocked. Obviously God has been working in this precious young woman's heart and obviously He has big plans for her. Erin and I were racing to get home but I was floored. We said goodbye and came home to get the girls dinner but I haven't quit thinking about that conversation since. Jesus tells us the parable of the sower in Mt.13:1-23. Praise God for what He is doing long after that seed was sown. He will make it grow (1 Cor. 3:7) and His Word won't return void (Is.55:11). He is faithful! Do not get discouraged when you don't see "results" in evangelism. Do what Bill Bright said, "take the initiative in the power of the Holy Spirit and then trust the results to God." He'll keep working in that person whether you see the fruit or not!

Evangelism Idea: Flash Mob!

You've probably all heard of flash mobs. Usually they are a form of social artistic expression but why not use this cultural trend as a way to share your faith? All you need is a few crazy friends and a crowded place. We did this with 1,000 college students in Denver, on the 16th street mall, New Year's Eve. It was a blast and we were able to share the gospel with hundreds of people (and Malcolm and Leah got to lead a guy to Christ!). Please check out the story and video by clicking here. The idea is fairly simple, get a group of friends together. Decide where you're going to go and what you'll do (you could freeze, sing or do something out of the ordinary that will get peoples' attention - make sure whatever you do is legal). Set your cell phones to vibrate and set all your alarms for the same time. Then spread out and when your phone goes off, do what you planned. You'll probably get a lot of peoples' attention and that will inevitably result in numerous conversations afterwards. Then be ready to work through the sound barriers and share the Good News! Check out a few flash mob examples below. Have a great day!

How to share the gospel in a conversation about sports!

If you're like me you probably often find yourself talking about sports. I am a die hard baseball and St. Louis Cardinals fan and am very excited about spring training right now (I'm actually even wearing my Cardinal hat as I write this). Transitioning from a conversation about sports to a conversation about Christ is very easy if you'll follow this simple idea. Probably the easiest way to share the gospel in a conversation about sports is to bring up a Christian athlete in the conversation and then work through the sound barriers. You can see an example of how I dod this here. There are quite a few Christian athletes out there so it shouldn't be difficult for you to find one you love! Just find a few names from the list below and bring them up in your next conversation about sports. Discuss how you appreciate their athletic abilities but also their personal stories. Then share their testimony. Google their name or check youtube to find their testimony. From there, ask the person what they think about that and/or what their background with Christianity is and continue sharing the Good News. Let me know of any Christian athletes I have missed by commenting on this post!

The list below was compiled from wiki.answers.com and other sources. I hope it helps!

Baseball

Brett Butler - former baseball player

Joe Carter - baseball player

Gary Carter - former baseball player

Darren Daulton - baseball

Dave Dravecky - baseball

Josh Hamilton - http://eternityimpact.blogspot.com/2010/11/josh-hamilton-mvp.html

Orel Herschiser - professional baseball player

Paul Molitor - professional baseball player

Terry Pendleton - professional baseball player

Andy Pettitte - professional baseball player

Albert Pujols - http://eternityimpact.blogspot.com/2010/08/albert-does-it-again.html

Mariano Rivera - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eug9vh3jymQ

John Smoltz - professional baseball player - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAANbXz2UqE

Walt Weiss - professional baseball player

Football

Bobby Bowden - college football coa

Dennis Byrd - former profession football player

Bob Christian - professional football player
Tony Dungy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL7QV8UNm58

Joe Gibbs - former professional football coach

Randall Cunningham - professional football player

Rosie Grier - former professional football player

Greg Jennings - http://eternityimpact.blogspot.com/2011/02/way-to-go-greg-jennings.html

Tom Landry - former professional football coach

Dan Reeves - professional football coach

Frank Reich - professional football player

Eugene Robinson - professional football player

Deion Sanders - professional football player

Mike Singletary - former professional football player

Gene Stallings - former college football coach

Emmitt Smith - professional football player

Tim Tebow - NFL - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhg0WOyhI0o

Kurt Warner - professional football player - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N1YQM7ssP0

Reggie White - former professional football player

Golf

Paul Azinger - professional golfer

Bernard Langer - professional golfer

Tom Lehman - professional golfer

Larry Mize - professional golfer

Payne Stewart - professional golfer

Scott Simpson - professional golfer

Larry Nelson - professional golfer

Aaron Baddeley- professional golfer

Skating

Janet Lynn - Olympic figure skater

Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz - Olympic winning Figure skating dance team

Rosalyn Sumners - Figure Skater

Paul Wyle - Olympic figure skater

Track and Field

Gail Devers - professional track athlete

Jackie Joyner-Kersee - professional track athlete

Eric Liddell (1902-1945) - Olympic Gold Medalist, depicted in film Chariots of Fire

Jesse Owens (1913-1980) - professional track athlete

Other

Davey Allison (1961-1993) - professional race car driver

Trevor Bayne - Nascar Champ - http://eternityimpact.blogspot.com/2011/02/angi-does-ministry-why-i-love-nascar.html

George Foreman - famed professional heavyweight boxer

Mary Joe Fernandez - professional tennis player

Jeff Gordon - professional car racer

Evander Holyfield - profession boxer

Todd Huston - mountain climber, motivational speaker, amputee

Mary Lou Retton - former gymnastics athlete, Olympic Gold Medalist

Jesse Romero - world chamption kick boxer

Sheila Taormina - Olympic medalist, swimming

Petty family - NASCAR professional race car drivers

Brian Sumner- Professional Skateboarder

Jamie Thomas- Professional Skateboarder

Christian Hosoi- Professional Skateboarder

Jesus, Atheists, Love and Football - February's Top Posts!

Below are the top 5 posts from February! I hope these encourage you a ton!

1. 532 words Jesus Died to Tell You!

2. The Top 10 Ways to Reach Atheists for Christ.

3. 88 Easy Ways to Share Your Faith! (this has several new ideas & duplicates were removed)

4. Love is in the Air: Valentine's Survival Tips!!!

5. Way to go Greg Jennings!!!

Having grown up an MK all around the world I am always excited about what God is doing around the globe. More than 80 countries have read this blog: Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bermuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Guam, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Italy, India, Isle of Man, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal, the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Quatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, the US, Venezuela, Vietnam and others. If you live in any of those countries, please comment on this post and let us know what God is doing in your part of the world. Thanks!

4 Ways to Reach Different Demographics for Christ!

Here are some ideas for reaching different demographics with the gospel.

1. How to reach young people for Christ.

2. How to share your faith with gay and lesbian friends.

3. 10 Points for Reaching Atheists for Christ.

4. How to reach Mormons for Christ.

9 Random Evangelism Ideas

Here are a few easy, random evangelism ideas:

1. Write a letter to the editor: share the Good News with your whole town!
2. Leave your waitress a generous tip and some Good News.
3. Servant evangelism ideas
4. Reach a Telemarketer for Christ
5. Snowday!
6. Share a Good Book
7. Ask an officer for a ticket.

8. Take a stand
9. Come up with a top 10 prayer list.

12 Conversational Evangelism Ideas

What if you could become an expert in engineering any conversation to bring it around to Christ? Well, you can. Not only will this be a good ability to cultivate but it will also become one of the most exciting things you do. Below we'll list numerous ideas for bringing any conversation around to the gospel. As you begin down the road of conversational evangelism please check out Tactics (a great book by Greg Koukl). It will help you develop a great habit of transitioning conversations to Jesus. Well, check out the conversational evangelism ideas below!

1. How to Transition Any Conversation to the Gospel.

2. How to Meet New People and Share the Gospel with Them.

3. Ask a few good questions.

4. How to share the gospel by asking "how are you?"

5. Have a Follow up Conversation after Sharing with Someone.

6. Ask someone about their weekend.

7. Tell someone how God came through for you.

8. Transition any conversation about the news to the Gospel!

9. Get to the gospel from a conversation about sports!

10. Health complaints = open door for the gospel.

11. Get to the Gospel from a conversation about a movie you've seen recently!

12. How to Share the Gospel in a Conversation About Music.

The Vantage Evangelism Tool

I can't believe I've never done a post describing this great tool. We've posted a few videos but no more info. Sorry. Here it is. We began using this tool some last year and it was a neat new tool. You can get the DVDs produced by CRU here. You can get the individual videos directly from the Global Short Film Network by clicking here. You can get all the training you need for using these short films to initiate evangelistic conversations here. The basic idea is that you can either play these videos off a computer or ipod/ipad/smart phone. The video brings up numerous topics that can be related back to the gospel. It is a great tool for ministry evangelism. Check out the videos below for more!

Life@Large: The gospel as a narrative story

Here is yet another great evangelism tool from CRU!!! I will quote the description of this great new tool straight from the CRU website and link the free download below: 

"As culture drifts further from a Christian worldview, communicating the gospel becomes more challenging. To understand Jesus Christ and what he has done is possible only when one understands the overall plan of the biblical story line. Life@Large is a simple, transferable means of communicating the gospel story line. You might think of Life@Large as the "Four Spiritual Laws" for a postmodern audience.

If you were to tell the Bible's story from beginning to end, how would you do it? Life@Large makes it easy. There are seven themes with a brief paragraph introduction to each:

1) Intimacy: Creation 
2) Betrayal: The Fall and our sin 
3) Anticipation: The Old Testament promise of a deliverer 
4) Pursuit: The life of Christ 
5) Sacrifice: His death and resurrection 
6) Invitation: This age and the opportunity to turn back to God 
7) Reunion: The age to come with judgment and eternal life.

As you can see, the Life@large outline provides a more comprehensive understanding of the gospel message and thus our need for a Savior

The pamphlet is designed to be a multipurpose tool, with a conversational presentation on the inside and a 'read on your own' narrative on the back. Unlike traditional evangelistic tools, Life@Large is not simply a presentation. It is a conversational guide. Success is not defined by making it through the booklet, but by having a significant spiritual conversation." Quoted from CRU's website. 

Get the free download here. Thanks CRU for another great resource!