You can also ask friends, family members, neighbors, coworkers, and peers at school if they’d like to learn how to evangelize.
Make sure the participants are comfortable with the start and end date for the training. Check that most, if not all the participants can attend every weekly meeting or training session.
For example, you may say to participants, “I invite you now to share your experiences with Jesus” or “Would anyone like to express what their faith means to them?”
You may demonstrate active listening by asking a participant a question about their faith. You can then listen attentively, maintaining eye contact and nodding to show you are engaged. Avoid interrupting or cutting off the person as they are speaking. You can then respond with “What I hear you saying is…” or “I believe what you are saying is…”. Once the person agrees you have heard them correctly, you can respond to them in a respectful way.
For example, you may have participants ask questions like, “Can you tell me how you view faith and Jesus?” “Can you tell me more about your beliefs?” or “Would you be open to exploring a different set of beliefs?”
Ask the participants to switch roles after 5-10 minutes so they can experience both sides of the discussion. Have participants share any thoughts or reflections after the practice sessions with the larger group so everyone can learn from each other.
For example, you may use passages from the Gospel that invite the reader to seek salvation in Jesus Christ, such as Luke 10:25-28, Matthew 4:17, or Matthew 11:28-30. You can also use passages from the Letters from Paul that focus on invitations to faith, such as Romans 10:9-10, Romans 10:13, and Acts 16:30- 31.
You may assign this as homework for participants so they can spend some time reading and choosing passages.
For example, you may ask participants, “What does the passage mean to you as a person of faith?” and “How would you explain the meaning of this passage to someone outside the faith?”
This may be a good way to wrap up a training session or open a training session to get participants focused on Biblical study.
You can make your own evangelizing booklets or order them through your local Christian supply store in person or online.
Have participants do at least one evangelistic visit a month so they can put their skills into practice. You may include evangelistic visits at the very end of the training so the participants can work their way up to this goal or takeaway.
