How a Texas Church Equipped for Evangelism with "The Difference Maker"
Pastor Matt Sturdevant, a Titanium Coaching member who leads Hope Church in Fort Worth, TX, understands that most Christians desperately want to make a difference, but simply don’t know how.
Matt felt a strong conviction to support the potential difference makers in his church. He wanted to give them tools for impacting others and help them remove the common stumbling blocks that keep people from sharing their faith. For guidance, he turned to my book, The Difference Maker: Using Your Everyday Life for Eternal Impact.
A few weeks before a Big Day at his church, Matt began promoting a one-night Difference Maker training, the seminar based on my book. He wasn’t sure what to expect. There were a lot of new people at Hope Church at the time, representing a variety of maturity levels. At first, the sign-ups were slow. But as the day got closer, sign-ups increased until Matt had to move the seminar from a classroom to the auditorium.
About 60 people ended up coming to learn how to share their faith effectively—including many students. Matt says, “The training added fuel to the fire of what we were already trying to do with our students. It made them feel more a part of the mission and ministry of the church. And they’ve been actively trying to share their faith since the meeting.”
He notes that a great thing about the Difference Maker content is that it is accessible to everyone, no matter their levels of maturity. In addition, Matt was keenly aware that as he was teaching on how to share the gospel, he was also sharing the gospel with those who hadn’t yet given their lives to God.
Matt says that one of the most powerful things about The Difference Maker as a resource is that it positions evangelism simply as a way to make a difference in someone else’s life. The training is inviting to people because, as he says, “Jesus has made a difference in our lives, and we are called to make a difference in the lives of others. People came [to the training] because they want to make a difference. They wouldn’t have shown up in the same way if we had called it evangelism training.” That nuance shift is powerful.
People are looking for purpose and meaning. They want a way to make an impact. Focusing the marketing of the training on that truth invites people who would never attend a traditional evangelism class to come and learn. Then, as Matt says, they realize “it’s not apologetics; it’s just sharing your story. It’s simple. They realize this is a way we can make a difference with an eternal impact.”
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- Event Promo Plan
- Leader Notes
- Outlines
- Student Notes
- Sample Promotional Emails
- Sample Promo Graphics
- Sample Teaching Audios
- Audio Transcript
- Sample Event Timelines
- Preparation Checklist
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Nelson Searcy is the Founding and Lead Pastor of The Journey Church, with locations across New York City and in Boca Raton, FL. By God’s grace, he identified and developed the Eight Systems of a Healthy Church® that he has used to coach over 5,000 churches in the US and around the world to adapt those eight systems to their unique ministry fields, resulting in great health and growth.
Nelson regularly coaches pastors online and in-person through the Church Leader Insights and Renegade Pastors Network ministries that he founded. He also leads several annual pastor in-person conferences and online training events. In ministry for more than 25 years, Nelson and his church routinely appear on lists such as “The 50 Most Influential Churches” and “The 25 Most Innovative Leaders.”
