Thom Rainer, The Unchurched Next Door: Understanding Faith Stages as Keys to Sharing Your Faith, Zondervan, 2008. Referenced in: Theology and Practice of Evangelism – Missionally Responsive/Evangelical LifeandLeadership.com Summary Thom Rainer’s specialty is bringing solid research to issues on which other authors merely offer informed opinions. Informed opinion is useful, but when you conduct research
Rainer, Thom S. Effective Evangelistic Churches: Successful Churches Reveal What Works and What Doesn’t. Broadman and Holman, 1996. Referenced in: Guides to the Practice of Evangelism – Effective Evangelistic Churches LifeandLeadership.com Summary Although this is an older book, the findings are still quite relevant for the typical established church. Like most of the works authored
Jim Henderson and Matt Casper, Jim and Casper Go to Church: Frank Conversation About Faith, Churches, and Well-Meaning Christians. Barna Books, 2007. Referenced in: Evangelism in Contemporary Culture, Special Challenges LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is very similar in content to Henderson’s The Outsider Interviews, both offering a creative view on how a skeptics look at today’s
Henry and Richard Blackaby, God in the Marketplace: 45 Questions Fortune 500 Executive Ask About Faith, Life, and Business. B and H Books, 2008. Referenced in: Congregational Renewal Through Spiritual Revival LifeandLeadership.com Summary This book may be of interest to those who use Blackaby’s popular curriculum Experiencing God or his book on personal and corporate
Jim Henderson, Evangelism Without Additives: What If Sharing Your Faith Meant Just Being Yourself? Waterbrook Press, 2007. Referenced in: Approaches to Evangelism – Conversational/Relational LifeandLeadership.com Summary This text is sometimes referred to as “a. k. a. lost,” and is from the same author as Jim and Casper Go to Church. It presents the antithesis of
Mark Dever, The Gospel and Personal Evangelism. Crossway Books, 2007. Referenced in: Approaches to Evangelism – Missionally Responsive/Evangelical LifeandLeadership.com Summary Dever founded a substantial network of conservative church leaders, Nine Marks Ministries, which also produces a series of books on church development. As compared to other authors on evangelism, he offers a Reformed Protestant perspective
Scott Dawson, Editor, The Complete Evangelism Guidebook: Expert Advice on Reaching Others for Christ. Baker Books, 2006. Referenced in: Approaches to Evangelism – Missionally Responsive/Evangelical LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is in the same encyclopedic/reference genre as Early and Wheeler’s Evangelism Is, with the difference that Dawson culls wisdom from over 50 contributors, as to where Early
Dave Earley and Dave Wheeler. Evangelism Is: How To Share Jesus With Passion and Confidence. B and H Books, 2010. Referenced in: Approaches to Evangelism – Missionally Responsive/Evangelical LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is in the same encyclopedic/reference genre as Scott Dawson’s Complete Evangelism Guidebook, with the difference that Dawson culls wisdom from over 50 contributors, as
Tom Clegg and Warren Bird, Missing in America: Making an Eternal Difference in the World Next Door. Group Publishing, 2007 Referenced in: Approaches to Evangelism – Conversational/Relational LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is an update to a previous bestseller by Clegg and Bird, Lost in America. It aims at equipping individual Christians for the work of evangelism.
Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson, The Strange New Word of the Gospel: Re-Evangelizing in the Postmodern World. Eerdmans, 2002. Referenced in: Evangelism in Contemporary Culture, Special Challenges LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a collection of articles from a number of scholars on how to contextualize the gospel in the postmodern era. In many cases,
