A Jester in the King's Court

100 Ways to Evangelize

1. Going door to door
2. Handing out tracks
3. Open air preaching
4. Reading a book of a theological nature in a public place and try and use it as a catalyst to engage people in discussion
5. Puppet ministry
6. Christian bumper sticker or vanity plate as a discussion catalyst
7. Take a pagan to see a movie with spiritual overtones and play “movie review” game
8. Watch Lost with a group of pagans and analyze it
9. Evangicube
10. Wordless book
11. Christian T-shirt as convo opener
12. Colored bracelet
13. Run sports programs out of the church for the community
14. Run Drama programs out of the church for the community
15. Hire a sky writer to put the Romans road in the air
16. Invite a friend to church
17. Invite a friend to hang out with Christians at a non-church event
18. Put on a Passion Play
19. Youth Scavenger Hunt for different types of people, points awarded for each person that comes to a party at the end of the event
20. Hand out water on a hot day at the beach
21. Volunteer at a soup kitchen
22. Pay for the food of the person behind you in the drive-thru and have the DT guy give them a New Testament or invite to church
23. Special event BBQ
24. “Chalk tag” the sidewalk all over the city to guide people to a website that’s evangelistic
25. Unite with a museum to give free tours through exhibits dealing with Christian history
26. Free car wash after a rain storm as a way of ministering to the community
27. Volunteer to host a Barnes & Nobel’s book club
28. Carry a cross up a busy street to start conversation
29. Hold up signs at sporting events
30. Put on a church sponsored Roller Derby contest
31. Men’s fishing trip to invite the unsaved to
32. Monday Night Football BBQ to invite the unsaved to
33. Buy season tickets to sport games to use to invite men to go with you and the pastor to games in order to build relationship
34. Booth at county fairs
35. Puppet show in local park
36. Sunday School driven evangelism
37. Leave fliers on windshields
38. Approach cultists as they are out witnessing and counter-witness
39. Go to the Ren Fair as monks and recite St. Francis’ sermons
40. Go to a hospital and ask the ill if they’d like prayer
41. Ask your waiter/waitress if she would like you to pray about something
42. Try to use evangelistic words when playing Scrabble
43. Halloween Alternative
44. Christmas events
45. Easter celebrations
46. Break dance competition
47. Talent show
48. Church School performances
49. Evangelistic bon fire
50. Evangelistic quilting group
51. Church sponsored dog training for the community
52. Bring quarters and detergent to a Laundromat and provide it to those there to start a convo
53. Public baptisms
54. Scrapbooking with friends but make sure you use church pictures
55. Invite pagans with you on a house building trip to Mexico…or Canada I guess
56. Teach your youth group about Intelligent Design and release them on the public school system
57. Youth all nighter
58. Church Christmas caroling
59. Play Christian parody band Apologetix around pagans and explain the songs after they realize they are listening to different words
60. Join in with a group of pagans making fun of a Christian cliché, and then explain why its wrong to take them off guard (i.e. “You’re right WWJD is stupid, Jesus would never have gotten drunk and beat His wife since He was sinless and not married”)
61. Christian sponsored car show
62. Evangelistic billboard
63. Hold a Bible study on the streets around the homeless and prostitutes
64. Run church counseling programs
65. Christian skydiving org where you ask, “If this parachute didn’t open, what would happen to your eternal soul?” as you’re falling at 32 feet per second while the pagan is strapped to you
66. Put on a Community Olympics during the real Olympics as a way of letting the community know that the church exists and build relationships
67. Sit on a college campus with a sign saying, “I’m Christian, prove me wrong”
68. Chili cook off
69. Sand castle building competition
70. 4th of July BBQ/celebration service
71. AWANA program
72. Door hangers
73. Revival Meetings
74. Church coffee cart
75. Christian social networking (Facebook, etc)
76. Blogging
77. Reading the Narnia stories to kids
78. Virtual churches or MPOG witnessing
79. Go to Comic-Con dressed as Nightcrawler or Daredevil and have your character expound their religious views (it’s Catholic, but close)
80. Hold a symposium when the next alien movie comes out about the likelihood of extraterrestrial life. Tie that into a creationist/ID worldview
81. Buy a church dragster that you can invite pagans to come can drive with Christians as a relationship builder
82. Go around putting flowers on all the female graves at a local cemetery on Mother’s Day hoping to talk with he grieving family
83. Twitering for Jesus
84. Offer to help clean out landscape issues as a means of starting convo’s
85. MOPs program
86. Take your kid to the playground and try and start convo’s with the parents of the kids your kid plays with
87. Evange-Bowling League
88. Go to an atheist meet-up group and ask to just observe and wait for them to try and bring you into conversation
89. Agree to trade services with a cultist/other religion follower. You go to 1 of theirs, and they to one of yours.
90. Have a Bible Study meet in a public place to draw attention to their study
91. Stop to see if someone needs help when broken down on the side of the road, use it to start Jesus convo
92. Take a picture of a Crusader and an Arab fighting and use it as a banner to advertise a series of talk on the Crusades and Christian/Islam relations
a. Take a picture of a cowboy, Native American, a Crusader and an Arab hugging and giving the thumbs up sign with a banner saying, “The Crusades and Manifest Destiny weren’t that big a deal!”
93. Church sponsored weightloss groups
94. Host Socratic discussions where people can come and present their beliefs and interact with ideas
95. Stand next to a God’s Word Fellowship guy protesting at the Rose Parade or something like it and apologize to those next to him that Christians aren’t like this
96. Christian camps/retreats
97. Go speed dating and tell everyone that sits across from you that they need Jesus
98. Gospel presentation at wedding/funeral
99. Mention being involved at church and ask, “Do you go to church any where”
a. Go up to a stranger and say, “Knock knock” “Whose there” “Jesus, He’s knocking at your heart….okay that’s not what that verse means, but seriously, are you saved?”
100. Steal your friends phone and refuse to give it back until they are able to explain their outrage and belief that your action is univocally wrong w/o expressed appeal to a deity, or they capitulate to attending church