Socially Awkward Evangelism: Overcoming Fears in Sharing the Gospel

Mark R. Teasdale (PhD, Southern Methodist University) is president of United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. He previously served as E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. Teasdale is ordained in the United Methodist Church; has served as director of the doctor of ministry, master of divinity, and Missional Church Center at Garrett; consults with churches locally, nationally, and internationally; and volunteers on community boards and commissions in his neighborhood. He is the author of Evangelism for Non-Evangelists, Participating in Abundant Life, Go: Becoming a Great Commission Congregation, and Methodist Evangelism, American Salvation.