It is true that we are called to be disciple makers. But this is just a part. It is also our calling to help the widows and the orphans. What does that look like from a culture and a church that is so wealthy?
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Arnold (Guest)
Posted: May 21, 2008
Certainly ministry to the needy is the expression of a redeemed life but it is not the expression of evangelism to a lost world. That is what this video is saying. Evagelism is the communication of the gospel, ie, the pathway to salvation for the soul through the atonement of Christ. No amount of good works and christian love will suffice. Without the truth of the person and work of Christ being expressly communicated, there is no evangelism .
An Anxious Anglican (Guest)
Posted: May 25, 2008
I do not think that evangelism and "action" are inconsistent or mutually exclusive, and I am often intrigued at the defensive response of those who seem to assume that the two cannot be done in tandem or as part of an overall mission plan. The unavoidable truth is that it is easier to talk about faith than to wash the diseased body of homeless man in a shelter; both are important and indispensible, but one is fun and one is not.
Matt (Guest)
Posted: May 22, 2008
The Gospel is the message of Christ's death and resurrection and its implications. Evangelism is spreading the gospel. Anything less is not evangelism.
Now I would remind you, brothers,* of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
1Corinthians 15:1-4