How to Revive Evangelism: 7 Vital Shifts in How We Share Our Faith

Christians need a compelling way to share their faith that combines the timeless practices of Jesus with timely perspectives about our post-everything era.

In a post-Christian, post-modern, post-truth society where Jesus followers aren't often well regarded, modern evangelism methods and efforts are eroding and increasingly ineffective. Christians often talk more than we listen, confront when we should converse, and demand that people believe before they belong.

Author and Executive Director of Alpha US Craig Springer believes that reaching non-Christians is possible, but only if we are willing to shift our perspectives, abandon ineffective methodologies, and consider the unique cultural moment in which we live.

In How to Revive Evangelism, he shares the often-overlooked evangelistic approaches of Jesus himself and demonstrates how returning to these fundamentals are the key to reviving evangelism in the 21st century. Incorporating groundbreaking and often startling data, Springer offers Christians seven shifts in how to share their faith--with friends and family members, neighbors and coworkers--that create greater potential for life change and interest in Jesus.

Craig Springer was an author, pastor, and researcher whose passion for people to know and love Jesus was compelling and contagious. He served as senior vice president at Barna Group, conducting their landmark Reviving Evangelism project and working alongside Gloo to advance the State of the Church initiative. Before that, he was the executive director of Alpha USA, a program that runs in over 6,500 churches across every major denomination and 500 prisons throughout the country.

Craig was a leader and pastor in influential churches in Chicago and Denver, one of which was named Outreach Magazine's 2014 Fastest Growing Church in America. Craig and his wife, Sarah, also spent a number of years church planting in Prague, Czech Republic. He published two books, How to Follow Jesus and How to Revive Evangelism, which reflected his mission and hard-won insights about motivating people toward Christ.