My journey into evangelism started by going to Bible College and taking a course on personal evangelism. This class had us do many mock one on one conversations using the Romans Road approach, but it never actually had us do it for real. Much like my wife's friend, at this point, I wanted to know how to do this in real life. Many years later, after completed my degree in missions and theology, I was flipping channels and saw Kirk Cameron on TBN. He had just finished a sermon and was talking about it. I was interested! I loved the Growing Pains TV show and wanted to know what he could have been talking about. I caught the sermon online and was amazed at the teaching. He delivered a sermon called, Hell's Best Kept Secret. This truly changed the way I viewed how to evangelize and spurred me to do more research. I contacted another organization, the Great News Network, that had people doing street evangelism in Oklahoma City and met up with them one Saturday night to watch and see. I went out almost weekly after that initial night for over two years before God moved us to South Korea. So, I have many resources to link to that I have found over the last 5 years or so.
I will say that evangelism is a progressive thing. You learn one thing and that will progress into something more. The first step in evangelism is passing our Gospel tracts. If you have high quality tracts, they will catch people's eye and they will want to look it over. There are many quality places to get tracts from. Some of my favorite places are listed below.
TRACTS- You can buy very nice tracts from the following vendors.
Living Waters- They have many different tracts as well as books, videos, training videos, and other resources. This is the ministry of Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron.
FREE TRACTS- You can order free tracts from the following organizations. They work off of donations and/or ask for you to cover shipping.
World Missionary Press- Free Scripture Booklets- these are nice because they only contain the Word of God and a heading for the verses.
I will now just list some of the resources that I have found for you to look over and learn from as well.
God Has A Wonderful Plan For Your Life book- This is the companion to the audio teaching by Kirk Cameron. You can request a free hard copy of the book, or can download it to read on your computer or smartphone. The author of the book is Ray Comfort.
Mark Cahill- great evangelist. His book, "One Thing You Can't Do in Heaven" is phenomenal. He also has a book that is great to give to unbelievers, "One Heartbeat Away" These are both available in print or audio format. You can even point people to http://oneheartbeataway.org/ where they can request a free copy of the book. He also has a video called "Pride Comes Before Destruction" which is over three hours of him witnessing at a gay pride event in Atlanta. He also has many free audio sermons you can download. You should also look him up on You Tube.
Prayer Stop- This is the prayer stop we are using here in Korea to reach people. You can learn more on the website.
Way of the Master witnessing video clips- clips are uploaded every couple of days for you to watch and learn from.
School of Biblical Evangelism- Online school that will help teach you how to share your faith. You could also buy the book from Living Waters or at your local Christian bookstore.
These are just a few of the things I could think of in a short amount of time. I will try to add to this list as time goes by.
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