Coffee shop

This past year, I’ve had a running discussion with a friend about putting feet to our talk of being missional. Both of us used to participate in Evangelism Explosion until the Church ended its involvement. Knocking on neighbors’ doors at night became unacceptable. Also, the two diagnostic questions seem contrived if you are in a conversation with a stranger talking about the weather, or some current event.

One idea we talked about is to send evangelism teams to local coffee shops (easily 10 within 5 miles of the church), and then meet afterwards to share results. A blog of the activities would be maintained so that people we met would have a means of following up with us.

A coffee shop team would purchase a cup from the local shop and endeavor to engage others in conversation that would lead to sharing the gospel. It may take several visits to develop the friendship needed, or with the appropriate diagnostic questions we might be able to share Jesus Christ on the first meeting.

I was thinking of conversation starters like “Hi. I’m Ronnie Ward from Champion Forest Church up the street. We were wondering what your opinion is of …?” The blank could be filled in by any number of ideas. What would you suggest we use to fill in the blank?

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