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October 28, 2019 By Ed Stetzer

Do You Really Care about Evangelism? If So, You Need To Do More Than Pray

We are likely all familiar with Jonah, who was a prophet of the Lord. Jonah lived during a time of relative prosperity for the nation of Israel; however, there was, of course, some trouble brought on by a certain city: Nineveh. …

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October 20, 2019 By Ed Stetzer

Dumbed Down? Why Reading the Bible Is so Elusive—Yet so Vitally Important

According to a study done by LifeWay Research, nine out of every ten households own a Bible. That’s a pretty considerable subsection of the American public. After reading this, I went home to see how many my family owns …

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October 14, 2019 By Ed Stetzer

Is Your Church Really Focused on Evangelism? Maybe Not.

Evangelism has the ability to make some of us very uncomfortable. We worry about offending people. We agonize over saying something wrong, unorthodox, or unhelpful that might end up leading someone further from Christ in lieu of …

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October 6, 2019 By Ed Stetzer

Moving Our Congregations to More Effective Evangelism

Too often, people view the connection between discipleship and evangelism in one of two ways: either they inseparably lump them into one category, or one gets relegated to the wastelands of our faith life. If we are honest, …

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September 26, 2019 By Ed Stetzer

Four Ways to Put Preferences in Their Proper Place, Part 2

We are discussing how to keep personal preferences from becoming central to our congregations. In the last post I talked about the first two: Compelling our people with Scripture and compelling our people with the vision. Today I …

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September 20, 2019 By Ed Stetzer

Four Ways to Put Preferences in Their Proper Place, Part 1

Everyone has their own personal preferences. I am an 80’s guy. In fact, I like 80’s music so much so that a worship leader at a church I planted in Tennessee called me “80’s Ed.” But some people prefer music from the 90’s, or …

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September 15, 2019 By Ed Stetzer

Missionary Identity

As Christians, I believe we should always be more driven by our missionary identity than we are by our national identity, our political identity, our environmental identity, our social identity, or even our church …

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Church planter and revitalizer, pastor, trainer, and author of dozens of articles and books.

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Ed Stetzer

Ed Stetzer, Ph.D., holds the Billy Graham Chair of Church, Mission, and Evangelism at Wheaton College and serves as Executive Director of the Billy Graham Center. He has planted, revitalized, and pastored churches, trained pastors and church planters on six continents, holds two masters degrees and two doctorates, and has written a dozen books and hundreds of articles.

Stetzer is the North American regional director for the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, a contributing editor for Christianity Today, a columnist for Outreach Magazine, and is frequently cited or interviewed in news outlets such as USAToday and CNN. He is the Executive Editor of The Gospel Project, a Bible study curriculum used by more than one million individuals each week.

He is the co-host of the BreakPoint This Week radio program with John Stonestreet. He also serves as Visiting Professor of Research and Missiology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Visiting Research Professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and has taught at many other colleges and seminaries.

He currently serves as interim pastor of Moody Church in Chicago.

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