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Jonathan Dodson

Jonathan Dodson is pastor of City Life Church in Austin, Texas, and author of Here in Spirit: Knowing the Spirit Who Creates, Sustains, and Transforms Everything and The Unbelievable Gospel: Say Something Worth Believing.

You Can Know the Holy Spirit

You Can Know the Holy Spirit

Does the way you talk and live your life communicate to others that you really believe in the Holy Spirit?

Light Shines in the Darkness

Light Shines in the Darkness

How easy it is, in the holiday season, to see the darkness around us. But are we willing to own the darkness within?

What About All the Other Easter Resurrections?

What About All the Other Easter Resurrections?

Today people are more likely to believe in a zombie than the resurrected Christ. People watch hours and hours of zombie flicks and television episodes, while neglecting resurrection literature altogether. The zombie belief isn’t mere science fiction. Numerous origin theories…

Evangelism on the Rocks

Evangelism on the Rocks

Evangelism is something many Christians are trying to recover from. The word stirs up memories of a bygone era — some call it “Christendom” — where rehearsed presentations, awkward door-to-door witnessing, a steady flow of tracts, and conversions in revival-like…

Mission to North America

Theology Refresh: Podcast for Christian Leaders

This ain’t your momma’s America. The societal change in North America, and Western Europe, in the last generation has been remarkable. Secularism has been on the rise. Church attendance has been down. And whatever optimism we may have about the…

Three Ways Evangelism Can Be More Believable

Three Ways Evangelism Can Be More Believable

If our evangelism is increasingly unbelievable, what can we do to be more believable to an inoculated, indifferent, and at times, antagonistic society? 

Seeing the Gospel Metaphors for Speaking a Believable Gospel

Seeing the Gospel Metaphors for Speaking a Believable Gospel

Small Talk — 2014 National Conference

Evangelism should not be formulaic or performance-based; rather, we should ask questions, listen to people’s hearts, and use appropriate gospel metaphors.

Two Big Reasons Evangelism Isn’t Working

Two Big Reasons Evangelism Isn’t Working

While a person’s response to Christ is ultimately a matter that rests in God’s sovereign hands — something we have no control over — a person’s hearing of the gospel is a matter we do have control over and responsibility for.

Recovering Awe

Pride cannibalizes awe. When our thoughts drift to how we have been poorly treated, how we are right or deserving of more, or how we will never be good enough, our worship is devoured, eaten up by the Self. We…

How to Share a Believable Gospel

When the gospel is communicated in preachy, impersonal, intolerant, know-it-all ways, people find it hard to believe. Typically, this style of evangelism is reduced to information. We content ourselves with “name-dropping” Jesus or telling people doctrine, but rarely do we…

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