PHOENIX (RNS) Faced with continuing declines in membership and baptisms, Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines implored delegates to the denomination's yearly meeting to turn
Whatever happened to evangelism? It’s a fair question. It’s a good question. But it’s one which needs unpacking. Asking whatever happened to evangelism is not the same
Faith remains intact when believers focus on God rather than on circumstance, speakers emphasized at this year’s Missouri Baptist Convention evangelism conference Feb. 5-6. With the theme, "Furnace," the annual event was held at Ridgecrest Baptist Church in Springfield, Mo.
Despite estimates of more than 85 percent of U.S. Christian congregations with the word “evangelism” in their mission statements, more people are "nones." Is evangelism on the ropes?
One of the world's 7,000 languages dies every 14 days, and nearly half of the total likely will disappear by the next century, according to a recent National Geographic magazine story. Even if researchers are correct about the death rate, thousands of languages will survive.
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Revival begins when Christians allow God to work in their hearts, according to leaders of a new "4xfour" prayer-based evangelism model used throughout the state.
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By Bill Webb Word&Way Editor COLUMBIA — Clyde Chiles has seen a lot of changes in evangelistic approaches in his 52 years as an active vocational evangelist. But he believes the message must not change, and evangelists always must demonstrate integrity. Chiles, one of
By Bill Webb Word&Way Editor By the time messengers to last week's Southern Baptist Convention left Nashville, they had renewed their commitment to evangelism, secured the ownership of all their institutions and made up with The Disney Company. The evangelism challenge Convention president Bobby Welch