Not good, why neglect things which are edifying to the christian life, that would be an unhealthy
focus on evangelism in the place of discipleship, just do both I say What if, instead of starting Christian Coffee Houses, Christian Work - Out Centers, and Christian Bridge Clubs, we started just going to these places that were already in our community and meeting the people who go there?
Hardly a book
on evangelism in the past 15 years has escaped the language of attendance when it comes to mapping out strategies that promise to turn churches around.
Just once i would love to read a
book on evangelism written by a plumber or a truck driver.
I am in the middle of doing a sermon
series on evangelism at my church and I've been challenging people to invite their unchurched friends to church.
Grayling stops short of calling for an outright
ban on evangelism, but he contends that religion often brainwashes the young before they have the opportunity to develop their own critical thinking.
Seldom making a serious impact on the life and policy of the church body, it consumes its energy in planning
conferences on evangelism or on prayer and encourages the new packaging of old revival techniques in such activities as the charismatic movement or the Faith Alive movement.
The discussion
on evangelism on this blog from July 19th, No Such Thing as the «Gift of Evangelism» continues with this entry on the gift of the Evangelist.
Dr. John Sorensen, President of Evangelism Explosion International, a ministry that has trained millions of Christians around the world to share Christ, discusses the state of evangelism,
research on evangelism trends, as well as myths and methods of evangelism.
I'm not
keen on evangelism from any quarter — it would be great to live in a world in which one's spirituality and one's belief system aren't things you must insist that others join in order to feel that they are valid, or in order to hold that other person in high esteem.
He got so stinking
rich on Evangelism, how come he does not give some of his fortune away?
The United Presbyterians have put together a
booklet on evangelism in the small congregation — The Vital Signs, by Wesley Baker.
What is more, the aim of mission became focused
exclusively on evangelism techniques and lost the fuller picture of what biblical mission is.
That the foregoing is not simply a matter of institutional survival becomes clear when we consider the third characteristic the
writings on evangelism have in common: a recognition that the church itself needs to be renewed.
We can not earn our way to heaven by following and obeying the laws of Jesus, that is discipleship and is not the way to heaven What if we didn't focus so
much on evangelism, but on discipleship?
Again, we went through in the
chapter on evangelism, when I argued that evangelism is gospelism, which is also known as discipleship.
One potential problem I see with that theory having a negative
impact on evangelism is that if there is no eternal hell, why strive to get people saved?
Grady predicts the movement will look much different in a few years as it
refocuses on evangelism and overcoming what he calls the distraction of «materialism, flashy self - promotion, and foolish carnality.»
Gaines is «a
traditionalist on evangelism, the need for personal commitment to Christ in salvation, and the commonly held Baptist soteriology of the past century,» noted Eric Reed, editor of the Illinois Baptist, while Greear's leadership is more contemporary and more Reformed.
In 1973 a
symposium on evangelism was held which included, amongst its delegates, a number of conservative Evangelicals.
As Justin Welby writes in his
article on evangelism: «Jesus calls us to extend our hands and our hearts, to use our words and lives to echo his call to every person to follow him.»
Last night the Most Revd Justin Welby shared his
wisdom on evangelism with our team here at Premier.
Dayuma, the indigenous Auca woman who helped Jim Elliot and Nate Saint begin their short - lived but legendary missionary work in Ecuador and later traveled the United States
speaking on evangelism and reconciliation, died March 1.
Edited by Grover Carlton Emmons., Nashville: General
Committee on Evangelism through the Department of Home Missions, Evangelism, Hospitals, Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Because of the importance
placed on evangelism, appeals are most effective if they are couched in terms of their evangelical effectiveness, even though that may not be their primary or dominant function.
I think this sort of teaching is manipulative and puts lots of people on guilt - trips, and causes people to think that the only thing that matters is preaching the gospel to our neighbors, and getting another
notch on our evangelism belt (or dropping another number off the divine scoreboard), rather than actually getting to know our neighbors and love them like Jesus.
Missionary definition, a person sent by a church into an area to
carry on evangelism or other activities, as educational or hospital work.
The Rev. David L. Norgard, who is openly gay and is chairman of the national church's Standing
Commission on Evangelism, says, «I'm thoroughly convinced, and hold it as a point of faith, that in the long run people are turned off by a church that excludes.»
Public perception of the MJ movement has also been scarred by a heavy
emphasis on evangelism and widespread conversion of Jews with groups like Jews for Jesus - a sensitive subject in the Jewish community and fair enough given the history involved here.
In this ongoing
series on evangelism, you will see that this is the sort of thing that true evangelism includes.
I suspect that its usage stems for the most part from the work of Gabriel Fackre, whose
books on evangelism have circulated far and wide in this decade.
Stetzer added, «I look forward to working with Wheaton, the BGCE, and the multidenominational alliance we will form to put a greater
focus on evangelism in the United States and around the world.»
Bolivia's president has cancelled the country's
ban on evangelism, which was put into law last month... More