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The Real Life Evangelism Series

The Real Life Evangelism Series by Martha Grace Reese

Change Habits, Not Just Minds

Evangelism books presume everyone wants to do evangelism, so they tell you how to do it. Four year of Lilly Endowment-funded research has demonstrated conclusively that most people would rather go get a root canal than think about evangelism!

The Real Life Evangelism series, based on this research, doesn't leap to the hows of faith-sharing. This course will help your church grapple with fundamental questions before it moves to the hows: Why share our faith? Why do evangelism?

The Real Life Evangelism Series is an integrated set of resources. The series has sparked a transformation in understanding, thinking, habits and practices of prayer and evangelism in churches of all sizes, cultural and geographic settings and theological understandings.

Unbinding the Gospel Book Cover  Step One: Unbinding the Gospel: Real Life Evangelism (Church Leaders' Study) [Martha Grace Reese, Chalice Press, St. Louis MO, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-0-827238-04-6]. Pastors, key congregational leaders and evangelism teams will benefit most from from using Unbinding the Gospel as a seven- to ten-week small group study. It helps committed leaders deepen and start sharing their own faith, understand our cultural context, and begin to plan for authentic congregational faith-sharing.
   
Unbinding Your Heart Book Cover  Step Two: Unbinding Your Heart: 40 Days of Prayer & Faith Sharing (All-Congregation Study) [Martha Grace Reese, Chalice Press, St. Louis MO, 2008. ISBN 978-0-827238-05-3] is a six-week church-wide, small group E-vent! It's perfect for a Lenten, summer, or fall study for all established classes and small groups, and new ones formed just for the E-vent. This is a six-week version of Unbinding the Gospel, with the addition of 40 days of individual prayer exercises coordinated with each chapter. It will enrich your church's community life. It will help individuals risk face-to-Face encounters with God. Your entire congregation will begin to talk about their faith. The E-vent creates momentum in your church.
   
Unbinding Your Church Book Cover  Support for Steps One and Two: Unbinding Your Church: Steps and Sermons (Pastor's Guide to the Real Life Evangelism Series) [Martha Grace Reese, Chalice Press, St. Louis MO, 2008. ISBN 978-0-827238-06-0]. This collection of fully integrated resources will help your church work and pray through the Series seamlessly. You will spend your time on what matters--praying, teaching, working directly with your people. Unbinding Your Church offers worship resources, step-by-step planning tools, and integrated web sections.

The Real Life Evangelism Series works! Congregations and people flourish when we are inspired, informed and given the chance to practice new ideas and skills together. The Series will help you invite the Spirit to sweep into your church.