Becoming a Contagious Christian: Communicating Your Faith in a Style That Fits You - Softcover

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Mark Mittelberg is a best-selling author and international speaker. His books include The Unexpected Adventure (with Lee Strobel), The Questions Christians Hope No One Will Ask (With Answers), and Confident Faith. He is also the primary author of the award-winning Becoming a Contagious Christian training course (with Lee Strobel and Bill Hybels), which has been translated into more than 20 languages and used by more than 1,500,000 people around the world. You can visit Mark’s website at: markmittelberg.com

Lee Strobel was the award-winning legal editor of The Chicago Tribune and is the bestselling author of The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, The Case for a Creator, and The Case for Grace. With a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale, Lee has won four Gold Medallions for publishing excellence and coauthored the Christian Book of the Year. He serves as Professor of Christian Thought at Houston Baptist University. Visit Lee's website at: leestrobel.com

Bill Hybels is the founding and senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill., and chairman of the board for the Willow Creek Association. The bestselling author of more than twenty books, including Leadership Axioms, Holy Discontent, Just Walk Across the Room, The Volunteer Revolution, and Courageous Leadership, and classics such as Too Busy Not to Pray and Becoming a Contagious Christian, Hybels is known worldwide as an expert in training Christian leaders to transform individuals and their communities through the local church. He and his wife, Lynne, have two adult children and two grandsons, Henry and Mac.

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Helping Christians Communicate Their Faith in a Style that Fits ThemImagine everyone in your church . . .â ¢ Confidently discussing matters of faith with friendsâ ¢ Talking about Jesus in a style that's personal and naturalâ ¢ Living each day with a vision and passion to reach othersIt can happen! Over one million people have experienced the groundbreaking evangelism training course, Becoming a Contagious Christian--a proven resource designed to equip believers for relational evangelism. Now revised and updated to train entire churches, it avoids stereotyped approaches that feel intimidating to many Christians--and to their friends! Instead, it shows ordinary believers how they can share the gospel in natural and effective ways while being the person God made them to be. Participants learn how to:â ¢ Build spiritually significant relationshipsâ ¢ Direct conversations toward matters of faithâ ¢ Explain biblical truth in everyday languageâ ¢ Tell their own story of coming to faithâ ¢ Use easy-to-remember gospel illustrationsâ ¢ Pray with someone to receive Christ, and more!Exciting features of the revised edition include:â ¢ All-new DVD vignettes, including dramas, testimonies, person-on-the-street segments, and a vision-casting segment for leadersâ ¢ Two teaching options: teach the course yourself (ideal for large group seminars); or use the teaching DVDs and let Mark Mittelberg and Lee Strobel teach it for you (a great option for small groups and Sunday school classes) New CD-ROM that includes PowerPoint presentations and resources for a Contagious Campaign. Includes an Implementation Guide that details how to run a four- to six-week church-wide event--complete with promotional materials, sermon transcripts, and course materials for use in small groups or Sunday school classes.Becoming a Contagious Christian works with any size gathering, from small groups of two to fourteen, to Sunday school classes and other large groups of fifteen to 1,500 or more. It can be presented successfully in any of the following formats:â ¢ Six sessions of 50 minutes each in small groups or Sunday school classesâ ¢ Three sessions of two-and-a-half hours eachâ ¢ One- or two-day seminars or retreatsâ ¢ Or adapt it to fit the needs of your church! Kit includes:â ¢ Leader's Guideâ ¢ Participant's Guideâ ¢ Two 180-minute DVDs featuring dramas, interview segments and complete course teaching by Mark Mittelberg and Lee Strobel â ¢ CD-ROM with PowerPoint presentations, sermon transcripts, and reproducible promotional materialsâ ¢ Becoming a Contagious Christian book by Bill Hybels and Mark Mittelberg