The Activator Podcast

A podcast dedicated to helping you develop confidence and strategies to share your faith.

On todays podcast I have the pleasure of Interviewing Randy Newman. Randy is the Senior Fellow for Evangelism and Apologetics at The C. S. Lewis Institute in the Washington, DC area. He has also taught at numerous theological seminaries and colleges, and served for over 30 years with Campus Crusade for Christ. He’s written many books on the topic of Evangelism, and we’re going to be discussing his book ‘Questioning Evangelism’ in our conversation today.

We’re going to talk about:

How Randy converted from Judaism to Christianity

How we can engage our Jewish neighbours in an evangelistic conversation

How we can use the ancient art of Rabbinical questioning for more effective evangelistic conversations

Close off with some tips that will help anyone better engage evangelically with those around them.

In our conversation today we’re going to talk about:

– Where the word ‘Gospel’ came from, and what the word ‘Gospel’ means

– How much of the gospel we need to share in order for a person to be able to be saved

– We’ll get nerdy with some Greek words that help us better understand evangelism

– How we can effectively engage with people who have different beliefs

– How we have forgotten what is good about the good news

In our conversation today we’re going to talk about

the importance of church history for us today

We’re going to talk in particular about the Moravian and Waldensian church movement… a topic that doesn’t often get covered, but one that I am particularly fascinated by

What took place with the Moravians that lead to one of the biggest global missions movements in church history

what the church needs to do today to engage with the culture around us

Links:

Communio Sanctorum Podcast https://www.sanctorum.us/

Moravian Church Documentary – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQNWCQbm4bcShaila addresses some of the pushback people have against Alpha:

We’ll address the argument that Alpha takes Evangelism out of the hands of believers and puts it into the hands of a video

Whether Alpha is too preachy of a tool for the post-Christian west.

How individuals and churches can utilize the Alpha Marriage course

How many of our evangelistic strategies fail to recognize or depend upon the Holy Spirit.