Sublime

Kelly James Clark,

Romans 1 and 2, provides the basis for contextualization,

As British sociologist and theologian Os Guinness has argued, the Devil will allow short-term success in evangelism and church growth if the means used to achieve it ultimately contribute to the marginalization of the church and her message.2 In this case, the church becomes her own gravedigger. By eschewing the role of reason in evangelism and

Chapter 6 Evangelist: Enable Others to Tell the Story

Even Calvin, who was much more conservative and seemed to not believe the miraculous gifts were available for his day, did see and speak about the reality of demon possession. In the following letter we see not only his experience, but also his pastoral heart to see freedom.

The gospel is life giving, because it generates changes that are received only by grace through faith. This foundational truth, however, gets bypassed, obscured, and forgotten, because, as Martin Luther noted, religion forms the default mode of the human heart.

When Jim walked the floor at his numerous factories around town, it was with a sharp eye for opportunities—not to correct but to connect. He’d ask employees about their lives and families, listening carefully and making mental notes of those in need. Then, when he got home, he’d report what he’d learned to Nancy, who always sprang into action. Mrs.

Instead, evangelism is increasingly associated with the things Sowell bemoans: rhetoric, Christian buzzwords, and an overdone appeal to felt needs. In the very way we do evangelism, we have inadvertently let the world squeeze us into its mold.

This creed, they found, is especially prominent among Catholic and Mainline Protestant teenagers. Evangelical teenagers fared measurably better but were still far from historic biblical orthodoxy. Smith and Denton claimed that MTD is colonizing existing Christian churches, destroying biblical Christianity from within, and replacing it with a