Reaching secular readers: Analyzing your audience
This MTI blog series aims to help you and your readers sharpen your skills in communicating faith matters to secular readers – skeptics, seekers, and the spiritually disinterested. John and Charles Wesley, the founders of Methodism, used British barroom songs of their day and substituted Christian words to reach the masses. [...]
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At Magazine Training International we are confident that God is holding the rope, but as indicated in Ecclesiastes, the strength of the rope matters as well. We are excited about the future, but as the three-stranded rope demonstrates, we are not strong without your support in prayer and giving. [...]
Reaching secular readers: Communicating Christ to secular audiences – why and how
This MTI blog series aims to help you and your readers sharpen your skills in communicating faith matters to secular readers – skeptics, seekers, and the spiritually disinterested. Picture the scene. A Nigerian man, living in Belgium, is watching a pornographic video on a computer. His intense thoughts and feelings are [...]
Reaching secular readers: Jesus, the Samaritan woman, and Superman
This MTI blog series aims to help you and your readers sharpen your skills in communicating faith matters to secular readers – skeptics, seekers, and the spiritually disinterested. You're probably familiar with the "woman at the well" story from John chapter 4. But just what do Jesus and the Samaritan woman [...]
A billion for Jesus
Rusty Wright and MTI partner to help fulfill a monumental vision If one of your life’s objectives was to help influence a billion people worldwide for Jesus, could you do it? For Rusty Wright, founder of Rusty Wright Communications (RWC), this is not a hypothetical question. In fact, it [...]
Reaching secular readers: Using cultural references to point people to Jesus
This MTI blog series aims to help you and your readers sharpen your skills in communicating faith matters to secular readers – skeptics, seekers, and the spiritually disinterested. When I heard that night about his sacrificial act – and that his life hung in the balance – I wept … [...]
Reaching secular readers: Finding common ground with skeptics
This new MTI blog series aims to help you and your readers sharpen your skills in communicating faith matters to secular readers – skeptics, seekers, and the spiritually disinterested. As you examine your life – or your career as a writer – can you think of any lessons you wish you [...]
Reaching secular readers: Secrets of successful humor
This new MTI blog series aims to help you and your readers sharpen your skills in communicating faith matters to secular readers – skeptics, seekers, and the spiritually disinterested. Humor can help you effectively communicate faith to skeptics, seekers and the spiritually disinterested. Consider this… A number of years [...]
Reaching secular readers: Speaking your audience’s language: Translating ‘Christianese’
This new MTI blog series aims to help you and your readers sharpen your skills in communicating faith matters to secular readers – skeptics, seekers, and the spiritually disinterested. When you seek to communicate the message of Jesus to those outside the faith, have you ever felt like you're [...]
