Evangelism Book: Embracing Grace, by Scot McKnight

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As mentioned in one of the prior define evangelism articles, we shared a brief description of the Gospel from Scot McKnight's book Embracing Grace: A Gospel for All of Us (order from Amazon).I have finished reading McKnight's book and want to share some of my thoughts on it.  Prof. McKnight was … [Read more...]

Definition of Evangelism: What is the Gospel?

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Our definition of evangelism (from the PCUSA) has both:A message to share ("joyfully sharing the good news of the sovereign love of God) A destination ("calling people to . . . . . ")The good news is the gospel.  This is what gospel means in its most basic form: "good news."However, … [Read more...]

Friday Finds

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Cup of Joe offers up some helpful Evangelism resource recommendations, with a reminder that God is the evangelist. Dan Kimball is doing a series on hell, including this one: “If you think I’m going to hell, you should care that I’m going to hell.” (To quote Seinfield’s … [Read more...]

Jesus Creed » Letters to Emerging Christians

In a post over at Jesus Creed » Letters to Emerging Christians, Scott McKnight does a good analysis of the "Romans Road" as a script for evangelism. He says two things that are worthy of pondering:The third thing now: the Romans Road works for some. It is just as important to say it doesn’t work … [Read more...]

Evangelism and Emerging Churches

I've read some stuff on emerging churches, and by no means am I complete expert on it. However, I've read enough to be fluent on what it is and where it might be going.One issue that comes up for our context is evangelism and emerging churches.Scott McKnight, one of my former professors at … [Read more...]