Tim Keller Evangelism Tips

1. Let people around you know you are a Christian (in a natural, unforced way)
2. Ask friends about their faith – and just listen!
3. Listen to your friends problems – maybe offer to pray for them
4. Share your problems with others – testify to how your faith helps you
5. Give them a book to read
6. Share your story
7. Answer objections and questions
8. Invite them to a church event
9. Offer to read the Bible with them
10. Take them to an explore course

What Keller also advises is that we (generally) start with 1-4. If people are interested and want to talk more you can move them to stages 5-7. If they’re still interested go on to stages 8-10. Sometimes people will want to go straight to 10, but often people start from way back and need some time to think and discuss things in a non-pressured way. We often think that only stages 8-10 count and invest all our energy there. TK suggests that to get people at stages 8,9,10 you have to put the work in at 1-4. Sometimes you’ll have to keep going round the loop multiple times.






http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/that-awkward-moment-when-we-speak-the-gospel

http://kellerquotes.com/persuasion/

http://www.danieldarling.com/2013/03/what-evangelism-is/

http://magazine.biola.edu/article/14-summer/how-can-we-be-better-disagree-ers/

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2012/08/07/when-will-christ-return