The need to communicate effectively has never been greater. These pages offer insights into how the message can be transmitted in such a way that it can both attract attention, and then be understood. These strategies apply to many types of evangelism.
| COMMUNICATION | Understanding Culture |
| How to relate to culture | Learning from the chameleon |
| What is culture? | How culture affects the way we think |
| Communicating to a secular world | The importance of writing about areas of common interest |
| What is postmodernism? | How the modern worldview changes the way we must communicate |
| Echoes of eternity | Finding redemptive meanings in films, the arts and literaure |
| Interpreting movies | Seeing the messages built in to many modern films |
| Bollywood films | The need to use Indian films to illustrate the truth |
| Pop music | Opportunity to reach young people |
| Books and plays | Finding redemptive parallels in writing |
| Contextualizing the message | Presenting the Gospel with meaning within the cultural context |
| Other religions | What they believe |
| Understanding communication | |
| The 'Bridge Strategy' | Meeting people where they are |
| Bridging with integrity | Using this strategy with biblical honesty |
| The 'Bridge' is biblical | Biblical mandate to use the Bridge Strategy. |
| Worthy witness | Right and wrong ways to do evangelism. |
| The Gray Matrix | Understanding people's spiritual journeys |
| The X Spectrum | Assessing the positioning of websites and other media |
| Relationships/friendship | Using the methods Jesus used. |
| Felt needs | A biblical way to open closed minds |
| Needs-based evangelism | In-depth look at the subject of previous link |
| Jesus the Communicator | Examples of needs-based evangelism in the ministry of Jesus |
| Jay's story | Getting inside a non-Christian's head |
| The parable of Parable | Why parables and stories communicate effectively |
| Picture language | Why it is essential and biblical |
| Permission evangelism | Helping people to ask the way |
| Angie's Story | Testimony-writing tutorial - three methods, but only two work for non-Christians Português | Italiano |
| Cartoons for outreach | Using cartoons and comics to communicate the Gospel |
| Humor in the Bible and evangelism | Importance of humor in effective outreach |
| Creating community | Making people feel that they belong to a website |
| Communicating with adults | Essential lessons from adult education |
| Women's case study | Analyses two website for women - which one is the evangelistic one? |
| What's in a name? | Using words appropriately |
| Why we fail to communicate | How we so often cannot reach the world around us |
| Strategies | Why we need strategies in sharing the Gospel |
| Schramm principle of communication | How it is clearly demonstrated in the Bible |
| Oral communication | Even the West is partly an oral communication culture |
| Tell it Often | Explanation of Engel Scale and other communication models |
| Spurgeon | Three reasons why he was an able communicator | The Web - the medium and you |
| Changing the world | The nature and scope of the Web |
| Push or pull | Why the Web is a different medium |
| Future potential | What the Web could do |
| Research | Uncovering the truth about the Web |
| What you can do | Web evangelism opportunities |
| God can use you | You have a part to play |
| Tools for the Master | How he uses us |
| Prayer | The importance of prayer support |
| Disability | The Web and disability |
| Training | Training for web evangelism |
| Touching lives | A summary of this Guide's message | Witnessing without webpages |
| Chat room witness | How to share your faith in real time online |
| What is a chat room | Explanation for newcomers |
| Email witness | Sensitive communication by email |
| Contact cards | Using contact cards in witness and to promote websites. How to make them. |
| Teaching computer and web skills | Offering tuition in web and computer skills as an outreach |
| Games | Using online and CD computer games for outreach |
| CDs, DVDs and video | Making and using them in evangelism |
| VideoCDs | Interim format with potential for outreach |
| Screensavers | Making and using them in evangelism |
| Books | |
| Beyond the Fringe... | ... Reaching People OUTSIDE the Church' by Nick Pollard |
| eMinistry... | ... Connecting with the Net Generation, by Andrew Careaga |
| E-vangelsm... | ... Sharing the Gospel in Cyberspace, by Andrew Careaga |
| Sowing, Reaping, Keeping... | ... People-sensitive Evangelism, by Laurence Singlehurst |
| I Hate Witnessing... | ... A Handbook for Christian Communication, by Dick Innes |
| Be an advocate for evangelism | |
| Conditions of use | Royalty-free articles for reproduction in print media |
| Linking methods | How to link to the main Guide, or individual pages |
| Free content for your site | Insert the entire Guide into your site with a few lines of code. |
| Printable poster | Poster for your church noticeboard |
| Translations needed | This Guide is available for translation into other languages |
| Mission resources | Online help for mission motivators and church secretaries/webmasters |
| Conferences | For online evangelism and other subjects |
| Affinity-group versions of Guide | You can link directly to these versions: Women | Disabled | Senior citizens | Students and teens | Pastors and church leaders | India | Africa | Messianic believers |