Evangelism
383 conversations where the hosts get into evangelism.
383 conversations
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Church, emotions, and the self-focus of affluence
- How do you help people in an affluent, self-focused culture see that they need Jesus?
Ben revives a question from two or three shows back: are church services and worship tunes postured toward certain personality types — predominantly emotions and dealing with emotions?
From No. 603 · Found Out
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Confetti and lasers: what should God's people be known for?
- Do we want to be known as the confetti and lasers people?
- What should God's people be known for?
Ben redirects to the docket's denomination question: when someone hears Silas's church described as 'the confetti and lasers people,' should that sting?
From No. 598 · Emphasis | Accountability, Worship and Praying with Strangers
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Dear LFTP: the $600 lawnmower and buying them a mower
- My nephew's wife took my $600, lied about it, and is avoiding me. Should I say something or let it go?
Mike reads a letter from someone who gave a nephew's wife $600 for a self-propelled lawnmower; she spent it, never bought the mower, and now avoids them.
From No. 587 · Coffee After Sunday
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Maintaining hope for people who won't choose Jesus
- How do you maintain hope for someone who keeps rejecting Jesus when God won't override their free will?
The episode's centerpiece: Mike's pre-show question about how to maintain hope for people who reject Christ when God won't override their free will.
From No. 579 · Wanted: Paul and Hope | Paul’s Persecution of Christians and Radical Redemption
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Christian Post 'Missing Heaven': what would it take to become a Christian
- What would it take for you to become a Christian?
- What would it take for you to give up on Christianity?
A host reads from a Christian Post article titled 'Missing Heaven' about the opener 'what would it take for you to become a Christian?' and argues the most interesting question…
From No. 531 · Just For The Taste Of It
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Is it wrong to think God will send people?
- Is it wrong to think God will send people to your church without any marketing or outreach effort?
First 'is this wrong?' case: is it wrong to think God will send people to your church, so you don't need marketing?
From No. 524 · Handshakes and Wrongness
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Dear LFTP: friends burned by the church
- How do I approach friends who have been burned by the church?
Mike reads a listener question: multiple friends were burned by the church — how do you approach them about coming back?
From No. 507 · What’s in a Name
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The salve, boldness, and calling out sin
- Am I the person supposed to call out sin in a given context?
- Why is it easier to be bold with Christians than with non-Christians?
A host offers the "salve" metaphor: the gospel is healing salve that believers protect and wrap up, while others lick it off.
From No. 504 · Saul, Naturally
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A YouTube 'last meals' show and a hard question
- How do you talk with someone who reads the Bible using sound interpretive method but reaches completely opposite conclusions?
One host describes a popular YouTube cooking channel's 'last meals' series, in which celebrities discuss what they would eat before dying and field questions about death and the afterlife.
From No. 496 · Regrets
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Starting points: proof texts and what 'daily reading' means
- What does 'I read the Bible every day' actually look like in practice?
The hosts offer first moves for the conversation: start with the other person's proof texts, since everyone has them; ask what 'I read the Bible every day' actually looks like,…
From No. 496 · Regrets
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The messenger matters: Paul, Acts, and relationship
- What do you think the good news actually is?
The hosts push back on the article: the messenger does matter, as Paul's past made his preaching land; Acts preaching was tuned to its audience; disciple-making is relational rather than gospel-dumping, and hiding your faith until later is disingenuous.
From No. 494 · 500-ish
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The He Gets Us campaign: "I hate this"
- Is the He Gets Us $100M ad campaign good evangelism?
Ben reads from the article on the $100M He Gets Us Christian ad campaign (TV, online, billboards targeting millennials and Gen Z, funded by wealthy anonymous families).
From No. 487 · Sing What You Want
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Rapture article: thirty seconds after, and the hosts' one-return view
- Is there a two-stage rapture, and what would happen thirty seconds after it?
Mike asks for a theology level-set and Ben explains the pre-trib rapture view before reading the Jeff Kinley and Todd Hampson article on what happens thirty seconds after the rapture.
From No. 483 · Ahhh Hell
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What is a non-practicing Christian?; where people say they'd learn about the faith
- What does it mean to be a 'non-practicing Christian'?
The hosts chew on what 'non-practicing Christian' means, teeing up Nathaniel on-air — a host answers for him and gets comedy-punished with a Grimace-vs-Hamburglar riff.
From No. 464 · Buying International Locusts
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What stops us from sharing the gospel
- Should church-service outreach and personal-life evangelism be treated differently?
- What are our biggest hangups in creating opportunities to talk about the gospel?
The hosts catalog the hangups that keep Christians from creating gospel opportunities at work and in clubs: fear of people's reactions, not knowing the right thing to say, worry…
From No. 456 · Just Do It
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What is the actual biblical good news?
- What is the actual biblical good news?
- Is the Sermon on the Mount the good news, or is it something else?
A host opens the show with the question of what counts as the good news: conversations where people call things like jelly beans or general niceness the good news prompted him to sort out the biblical definition.
From No. 450 · Good News of Narrow Focus
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Bring Your Bible to School Day debate
- Is Bring Your Bible to School Day an effective way to share the gospel?
Asked about the eighth annual Bring Your Bible to School Day, the hosts call it a 'shallow victory': if students live badly all week, showing up with a Bible just lets classmates see through them, like wearing Reds gear doesn't make anyone a fan.
From No. 446 · Fresh Perspectives
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Jeremiah: cursed is the man who trusts in man
- What good does it do to pronounce this the end of the world?
A host shares from Jeremiah 16-18, reading that the sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron and engraved on the tablet of their heart, and that God says, 'cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength.'
From No. 419 · Election Stuff, Reluctantly
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How much damage can misreading Revelation do?
- How much damage can a strong misinterpretation of the book of Revelation do?
A host poses the episode's hard question: how much damage a strong misinterpretation of Revelation can do.
From No. 409 · Super Sign of the End Times
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TikTok faith conversations, the ban, and the verdict
- Is going live on TikTok a valid way to talk to people about Jesus?
- Why would God allow the coronavirus pandemic and racial injustice?
Boova describes late-night TikTok lives where strangers ask about his faith — why God allows the pandemic and racial injustice — and the surprisingly good conversations that result, including regulars from Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
From No. 408 · Gone, Gone Boova
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Jesus invites out rather than berates
- Does Jesus invite people out of sin more than he berates them for being in it?
Mike brings a point Ben made at church on Sunday: Jesus invites people out of something more than he berates them for being in it.
From No. 407 · Can We Always Be Like Jesus?
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Dear LFTP: teenage intruders
- Two 13-year-olds forced their way into my home and won't leave — what can I do without getting physical?
Dear LFTP, letter one. A listener writes that two of his daughter's 13-year-old friends pushed their way into the house, raided the fridge, and ignored repeated demands to leave — while he was away on a work trip.
From No. 396 · Pet Pastoring and Confounded on Dear LFTP
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The church that will not answer hard questions
- Do churches need more apologetics ministries to stop young people from leaving the faith?
A host reads from a Robin Schumacher article in the Christian Post: a trained apologist offered her megachurch a free apologetics ministry and got ghosted, while Barna data shows Gen Z drifting from religious identity.
From No. 395 · How the Church is Solving Every Modern Problem Incorrectly
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Reaching 'unsaved Christians': the Bible Belt article
- What are good starting points for a spiritual conversation with a cultural Christian?
The hosts work through the Christianity Today article 'to reach unsaved Christians, first help them get lost': a pastor's parking-lot epiphany that the Bible Belt — where people…
From No. 364 · Golden Calf Purity Rings