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Follow Ups – How to Actually get Face to Face with Freshmen

August 4, 2014 By Tim Casteel 1 Comment

After you get thousands of contact cards, what do you do with them? Alan Mitchell tweeted to me on Friday: @timcasteel 2 questions: 1. how soon do you start following up on the spiritual interest surveys? 2. How do you follow up with them? Do you try to get coffee, invite them to social, or directly to a bible study? — Alan Mitchell (@ram1006) August 1, 2014 Question 1: … [Read more...] about Follow Ups – How to Actually get Face to Face with Freshmen

What you Should be Doing the First Week on Campus

July 30, 2014 By Tim Casteel 2 Comments

Some great wisdom from Brian McCollister here. 3 Keys for the First Week on Campus Staff must lead in evangelism. All else must suffer for the sake of getting face to face with freshmen. I tell our staff that your first six discipleship times of the year must be primarily spent in evangelism. If your upper classmen balk at this then that is evidence that you may not … [Read more...] about What you Should be Doing the First Week on Campus

Tim Keller on How to Get into Gospel Conversations

June 7, 2013 By Tim Casteel 3 Comments

Some great thoughts from Tim Keller on Evangelism in this video. Some highlights: If you strictly do Evangelism, the outside world sees it as recruitment, increasing your tribe, a power grab You need to combine Word and Deed. The best way to combine Evangelism and Good Deeds is on a personal level (more difficult to do on a organizational level) You’re not going … [Read more...] about Tim Keller on How to Get into Gospel Conversations

50% off Gospel-Centered Life Study

May 22, 2013 By Tim Casteel 1 Comment

Good news! For the next few months the great folks at New Growth Press are offering Cru staff 50% off of the Gospel-Centered Life Bible Study. The Gospel-Centered Life study is phenomenal. Incredible heart-probing, Christ-centered content. Click to see a GREAT sample chapter or here for an excerpt on how "The Gospel Propels us Outward" GCL was written by a couple of former … [Read more...] about 50% off Gospel-Centered Life Study

The Gospel for Bible Belt Christians

May 1, 2012 By Tim Casteel Leave a Comment

Listened to a Matt Chandler sermon a few weeks ago where he gives a phenomenal gospel message to Bible Belt Christians: For most of us, the former life that we need to proclaim is that we were busy with a thousand religious activities, but we didn’t know the gospel until Jesus saved us. “My former life” is that you were a deacon and Sunday school teacher, but you didn’t know … [Read more...] about The Gospel for Bible Belt Christians

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Top 10 Books of the 2010s

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The goal of this blog is to share resources, best practices and strategy. Inspired by others who have taken the time to share their thoughts/learnings/resources, I decided to stop merely consuming and start contributing to the conversation.

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