Publications & The Author

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As Dr. Felsburg completed his Doctoral Dissertation, the Lord impressed upon him a need to publish solutions he had found for simplifying the work of evangelism and eliminating some of the feelings of frustration and attrition published there.  The full title of the dissertation is The Business of Evangelism:  A Phenomenological Study of Frustration and Attrition among Christian Evangelists (ProQuest, 2008).  While not included in the group pictures of published works to the left, it was a driving force for completing his series of books on outreach, evangelism and church growth.  See more details on the dissertation, its availability and ordering below.  

Dr. Felsburg started by publishing the training plan lessons he had used for over 35 years in teaching evangelism at the local church level.  Those training plans were edited, updated and published as Talkin' about Christ - Over the Back Fence (Xulon, 2010).  An abstract for this and the other books are included below.  

His second book contributes research findings on God's work of reconciling mankind to Himself.  This book, entitled How God Gets You Back (CrossBooks, 2010), details the process God uses to reveal Himself to mankind.    In 2015, Dr. Felsburg republished this book and the next three  through Xulon Press under their original titles.   

Next is the issue of how one can determine how much God has already revealed of Himself to a person and what should be presented for the next steps.  The book is Profiling the Prospect (and details the use of profiling techniques to make those decisions. 

The fourth book pictured above is titled Making the Little Much  and details how leaders can organize small groups to make them big.  It is unique in that it provides Job Descriptions, Class Rosters, Instruction Sheets, Performance Evaluation and Organization Charts.  It also introduces new learning modalities for more effective training.  This book won 1st place in the Ministry Category in Xulon Press' Best Christian Authored Books in 2015. 

The fifth book is Inside the Church takes a systems engineering approach (inputs, process, outputs and feedback) to model ten ministries listed in the Lord's Great Commission.  Then it combines all ten of those ministries into a 3-dimensional view showing the impact of any single ministry impacts the entire church.  This book won 2nd place in the in the Ministry Category in  Xulon Press' Best Christian Authored Books in 2016. 

After publishing the first two novels, next section, Dr. Felsburg returned to ministerial topics for a sixth in the series.  Bivocational: Today's Tentmaking Ministers (WestBow, 2018) describes the modern bivocational ministry in the Christian church.  This one is offered in two parts:  Part I sets the baseline of God's Call, the Gospel Ministry and the uniqueness of the Bivocational Ministry.  Part II describes the Bivocational Minister's interaction with the denomination, state and local associations, church leadership, the congregation, other churches, the other job, the community, the family and the bivocational life.  This book was awarded 1st place in Xulon Press' Best Christian Authored Books in the Self Help Category in 2018. 

The seventh reference book in the series was necessary as a capstone to examine the overall contributions of the series to the Body of Knowledge in the field of outreach, evangelism and church growth.  The dissertation, "The Business of Evangelism: A Phenomenological Study of Frustration and Attrition Among Christian Evangelists" established the facts of widespread frustration and attrition among Christion evangelists.   The author's six reference books responded to the "Findings Requiring Further Investigation" included in the dissertation.  "The Business of Evangelism Revisited" serves as that capstone publication to examine each of the six earlier reference books for individual contributions to that Body of Knowledge and to formulate overall contributions for the reference series.   This, in itself, establishes this work as a significant contribution to that Body of Knowledge.

God has provided people all around us with spiritual gifts that often go unrecognized and unused throughout the best years for their effective ministries.  Each is especially gifted by the Creator for making small group Bible studies larger.  In Making the Little Much, author Dr. David F. Felsburg shows how to find, identify, develop, and use these special people to prepare small groups for exceptional growth.

Dr. Felsburg describes the adult small group growth ministry and includes detailed job descriptions and functional insights for each leadership position in those small groups.  He also examines a biblical model in considering all the necessary ministries a leader might implement for the small group members; shows how the successful group can become a breeding place for the development of future leaders in administration, outreach, social connectivity, and small group leadership; and considers the natural temptation for the leader to burn out by ministering to a larger group than advisable.  Making the Little Much also offers techniques for maintaining the discussion and learning advantages of the interactive small group while allowing its size to grow significantly.

In addition to the adult small group model for growth, Dr. Felsburg provides required detail for adapting the adult applications to singles, youth, children, preschool and cradle roll ministries.  In the children's areas, he adds breakthrough methodologies for determining and applying learning modality preference for grouping the children to match their learning styles. A unique survey is included to supply questions or observations of the children to determine their prefered learning modality.

Making the Little Much may be purchased here from the publisher, or here from Amazon.com, or here for the Kindle version.  Contact the author directly at dr.dave@fishersinc.net

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Moving the Christian practitioner out of the pew and into the everyday world where the unbeliever lives, congregates, and socializes, Profiling the Prospect presents an array of methods for studying people's behavior to gather evidence of how far God has taken them in their spiritual journey to redemption.

In Profiling the Prospect, author Dr. David F. Felsburg applies profiling techniques to understand a person's movement toward Christ. He shows how to determine the proper profile for the prospect by asking noninvasive questions or making routine conversation and documenting the responses. He divides a prospect's climb toward faith into seven different but related levels of spiritual awareness and provides a detailed general profile for common behaviors and responses at each of these levels. He lays out detailed steps to help the unbeliever get closer to God by following specific steps in the associated Redemption Plan.  Finally, he presents easily understood flowcharts mapping the specific progress of the unbeliever at each level, as well as the logical next steps for moving forward in faith. 

A follow-up to Talking about Christ - Over the Back Fence" (Xulon, 2010) and How God Gets You Back (CrossBooks, 2010), Profiling the Prospect (CrossBooks, 2011) is Dr. Felsburg's next step in his continued work to bring attention and clarification to issues facing the Christian evangelist today and to lead people closer to Christ. 

 
Profiling the Prospect may be purchased here from the publisher, or here from Amazon.com, or here for the Kindle version.  For a hardback copy please contact the author directly at dr.dave@fishersinc.net.

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In the follow-up to Talkin' about Christ - Over the Back Fence, author, dedicated pastor and evangelist, Dr. David F. Felsburg, returns to the subject of understanding God's redemption of His creation in, How God Gets You Back.

Whether you are a believer or looking to lead someone else to Christ, How God Gets You Back provides readers with the authority, evidence and path to achieving everlasting life with God. He writes of his personal experiences in finding Christ: How on Earth can a person once dedicated to atheism and full denial of any god at all present a book written on how to lead other people to Jesus Christ? ... I began questioning the concept of a loving God as a teenager. This is probably about the same time most young people begin asking whether the faith of their parents is sufficient for personal application. There is seldom enough life lived to answer such significant questions at that age, but countless centuries of human behavior show that many of us ask the questions anyway.

As both a man of faith and a man of science, Felsburg is uniquely qualified to present helpful material on a variety of subject matter, including the Sin Cycle, the meaning of salvation, the nature of the lost person, God's sovereign work in redemption, how and what to share with unbelievers, and the understanding of the private and public commitments to Christ. Insightful and inquisitive at every turn, How God Gets You Back is the perfect resource for becoming a dynamic, effective evangelist.

How God Gets You Back may be purchased here from the publisher, or here from Amazon.com, or here for the Kindle version.  Contact the author directly at dr.dave@fishersinc.net

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Dr. Felsburg provides a unique approach to evangelism training in "Talkin' About Christ - Over the Back Fence".  This book is designed to integrate the disciplines of engineering, theology and human behavior analysis to examine where a person is in his or her journey toward Christ and formulate an action plan for closing the gap. 

The first ten chapters deal with applying well known Christian materials as instruments for measuring a prospect's current beliefs as a launching pad for helping them advance toward Christ. 

The second ten chapters address the interpretation of prospect responses and the application of those responses to a plan for tracking the progress of the unbelievers over the next several days, weeks or months.

"Talkin' About Christ - Over the Back Fence" may be purchased here from the publisher, or here from Amazon.com, or here for the Kindle version.  This book is only available in the softback format.  Please feel free to contact the author directly at dr.dave@fishersinc.net

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After keeping his commitment to the Lord to publish five books in four years, Dr. Felsburg wrote three novels based on actual experiences dealing with the nation's missile warning, space surveillance and atmospheric defense systems as integral parts of the Integrated Tactical Warning and Attack Assessment System or the ITW/AA.  

This was the first of the three books and describes a series of warnings of massive Soviet nuclear missile attacks on the United States.  The novel tracks the actual processes used to  establish the veracity of such warning reports.  It shows how the information is compiled and briefed to an executive-level panel of military advisors.  The President chairs the panel and typically has ninety seconds remaining to decide how the country will respond to the nuclear attack.  

The second novel is named for the top secret code words used to describe a situation of reduced atmospheric surveillance capabilities over the National Capital Region.  "Wounded Eagle"  deals with immediate, short-term and long-term solutions for reestablishing data integration to mitigate the  problem and restore air surveillance mastery.  

The third novel is titled "Crisis in Low-Earth Orbit" and deals with foreign hacking of crucial government databases supporting our space missions.  With the lives of all aboard the International Space Station at stake, Crisis tracks efforts to troubleshoot, isolate and repair the software before the perpetrator's intended harm could take place.    

Wounded Eagle is a fictional account of actual events that took place during the US-USSR Cold War of the late 1970’s.  The title was a top secret code word used to describe situations with reduced or eliminated advance warning of an aircraft attack on the US Capital. Such warnings are provided by a network of long range radar sensors deployed on or near the US borders and coastlines. Digital data from these sensors are processed and integrated into overall aircraft status pictures covering hundreds of miles over the ocean and an equal distance inland. The FAA and NORAD jointly use these data for real-time air route traffic control and early warning of intrusion or attack of the homeland. The Fort Lee AFS Direction Center in central Virginia provided data to NORAD to accomplish those functions for the Mid-Atlantic States including Washington, DC.   Without live radar data updating the direction center computers, routine air traffic control and guidance of military aircraft to protect the Capital, its people and resources cannot be provided. 

At 0430 hours (EDT) on Monday, 8 August 1977, the NORAD Command Post within the Cheyenne Mountain Complex was notified that an air conditioning failure in the Fort Lee AFS Direction Center resulted in  severe damage to their air defense computers.  The loss of all data from Fort Lee forced the NORAD Command Director to declare “Wounded Eagle.”  

Wounded Eagle may be purchased from the publisher in hardcover, softcover and e-book format here.  They can be purchased at Amazon  here.   Contact the author directly at dr.dave@fishersinc.net.

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Colonel Starker had been through the President's Missile Warning Conference Call process dozens of times.  With the calm, determined and experienced voice recognized by all present, he reviewed the current status for the President.

"Mr. President, we have 250 confirmed missile launches detected and reported by two DSP satellites.  The locations of all the launches are validated as known missile launch facilities within the USSR.  A total of 250 missiles have been corroborated by PARCS or at least one of two ground-based BMEWS sensors.  The trajectories and projected points of impact are both military and civilian targets.  The military targets are command and control centers, including the Pentagon and Cheyenne Mountain; major missile launch capabilities; and bases, posts and ports where major nuclear weapon assets are resident from all four military services.  The civilian targets are all major population centers in the US or Canada.  The Warning System Assessment from Captain Dugan is forthcoming immediately." 

General Gerr reminded the Telecon participants that it was now 0810Z and the closest attacking missiles were now approaching ninety seconds to their impact points on coastal targets.  The decision for the President's missile launch authorization had to be made immediately. 

Purchase "The President Had Ninety Seconds" from Amazon here for hardcover, softcover or Kindle format.  Purchase the book from the publisher here.   Contact the author directly at dr.dave@fishersinc.net.

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