The Thriving Church Podcast

Episode 23 - A Young Leader's Journey Through Personal Growth to Helping Others in Evangelism

Podcast guest MicahE joins the podcast for a second episode to discuss his experiences as a young leader growing in evangelism and helping others grow. This episode explores two levels where evangelism tools, church community, and personal discipline help people develop evangelism skills: the level of one’s personal life and the level of ones community role of helping others grow.

Episode 22 - God Grew Me from Nothing to Natural in Evangelism (a young leader’s true story)

Podcast Guest MicahE talks about his journey from no evangelism to natural evangelism. Admitting he is not an expert, but a learner, he traces his way through desire, evangelism adjacent activities, to learning through a mentorship, into a regular lifestyle of finding people willing to listen and engage in spiritual conversations. Along the way, he led people to faith in Jesus and discovered the freeing principles of God’s sovereignty in evangelism and permission in evangelism.

Episode 21 - Quick Tips for a Personable Witness

Listen in for some quick, practical tips on being a personable witness to lost people during evangelistic encounters of any kind. Start with relationships. Focus on the person. And, more. Guest Rick Brittain picks up where the last episode ended and helps people growing along the stages of evangelism to relate to people in a natural way.

Episode 20 - Two Simple, Critical Questions Help Believers Grow in Evangelism

Believers grow through identifiable stages in their evangelism journey. Everyone is in a different place, but everyone is somewhere among the stages. Three important concepts give the stages significance: spectrum, baseline, and surge. Two critical questions make the stages practical and helpful. Learn the stages, the concepts, and the questions that can help you take your next steps in evangelism as an individual or as a church. Turn up your evangelistic temperature naturally. God is at work. Get ready to grow. Get ready to surge. Lost people are waiting for you.

Episode 19 - God is Reviving Small Churches

Guest and pastor Dean Turvaville tells his stories of God reviving small churches, even in very small places. From six members, 20 members, and eight members, Dean has watched God's people join God at work, reaching new people in the process. Through it all, Dean has served as a bi-vocational or volunteer pastor while pursuing a secular vocation to fuel his ministry and livelihood. His stories will encourage pastors of both small and large churches because they display the amazing ways God is still at work in every place all the time.