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From Marginal to Mainstream to Marginal

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  • Jos. Colijn

This article taps into church history to look at how the persecuted early church became the popular faith. The author relates this to the church today, which once again feels marginalized. Looking at what made Christianity attractive in the times of the early church, this article draws lessons for how the church can witness today.

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Personal Evangelism

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  • Charles M. Wingard

This article discusses the topic of evangelism, highlighting that most individuals are first introduced to church through friends or relatives. The author discusses guidelines for sharing the gospel with people around you.

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A Statement of Missionary Concern

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This is a statement is about mission work and the uniqueness of the Christian faith. 

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Half-Truth Sin hasn’t Disappeared, Except in Our Preaching

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  • Barney Zwartz

What happens when the church applies marketing principles to evangelism? This article shows that five things will happen to the gospel that will render evangelism meaningless and empty.

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Jesus Christ Superstar

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  • R. C. Sproul Jr.

This article evaluates modern methods of evangelism which seek to contextualize Jesus. Modern pop culture "celebrates" Jesus in many ways - but is this biblical?

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I Am Made All Things to All Men

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  • Arie DenHartog

What exactly did Paul mean when he said, "I have become all things to all people, so that by all possible means I might save some" (1 Corinthians 9:19-22)? This statement does not intimate compromising the gospel or using worldly methods of witnessing. This article looks at Paul's life and preaching in order to rightly understand this statement.

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Is the Bible Enough?

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  • Geoffrey Thomas

Is the Bible sufficient for the spreading of the gospel and the working of faith in unbelievers? Are miracles and signs necessary for effective evangelism? This article answers these questions based on the story of the rich man and the beggar, as recorded in Luke 16:19-31.

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Golfing for Jesus: Christ and Consumer Culture

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  • Stephen J. Nichols

This article shows that trying to fit the gospel message into the frame of consumerism serves only to undermine evangelism and the gospel.

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Door-to-Door Visiting

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  • John D. Nicholls

This article presents support for door-to-door evangelism.

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Relevance without Irreverence

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  • Richard L. Pratt

This article is about understanding our times to bring the gospel to the man on the street, evangelism and culture, rising above personal preferences and never passing over the line of sinning when bringing the gospel. The author also discusses 1 Corinthians 9:19-23.

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The Evils of 'Mass Evangelism'

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  • John Kennedy

This article is a summary of John Kennedy's view of superficial evangelism and mass evangelism.

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Hospitality Evangelism

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  • Richard P. Kaufmann

This article on hospitality evangelism asks, What is hospitality evangelism? Why should you do hospitality evangelism? Does hospitality evangelism work? and How do you carry out hospitality evangelism?

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The Mother-Daughter Model

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  • Benjamin W. Miller

This article looks at the advantages and disadvantages of the mother-daughter model of church planting.

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The Usual Steps in OPC Church Planting

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  • John S. Shaw

This article looks at some of the steps the Orthodox Presbyterian Church usually take when starting a church planting.

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The Use of Canned Evangelistic Approaches

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  • Tony Zekveld

This article is about evangelism methods.

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Street Evangelism in Six Steps

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  • Jesse Johnson

This article offers six steps for street evangelism: choose a location, start the conversation, ask questions, get to the gospel, explain it, and end the conversation.

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Creative and Reformed About Room for Missionary Projects

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  • G. Riemer

Pointing to the reality that being Reformed and creative go hand-in-hand, this article shows that throughout church history, the Reformed faith has distinguished between form and content. It is through this distinguishing character of the Reformed and the desire to remain faithful to Scripture that creativeness in mission work can find room.

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Shared Truth

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  • Mike R. Taylor

One effective way to practice evangelism is by beginning with shared truth. Beginning with truth that others also accept creates an opportunity to share the gospel. Both Jesus and Paul practiced this in their ministries.

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Calvinism And Open-Air Preaching

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  • Alun T. McNabb

Rejecting the idea that Calvinism impedes evangelism, this article shows that embracing Calvinism strengthens one to do evangelism, in this case focus is given to open air preaching, showing that believing the condition of man, and the great commission will fuel one to preach the gospel, with some suggestions on how to go about doing open air preaching.

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Witnessing to Roman Catholics

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  • C. John Miller

What does witnessing to Roman Catholics entail? This article discusses preparing for this witness, the doctrine of Roman Catholics, and specific dangers to be careful of.

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Ten Pioneering Years

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  • John Hall

This article is about a special type of church planting, and the author discusses some difficulties and priviliges of the work in the first ten years.

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The New Evangelism: A Warning

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  • Andrew Sandlin

This article outlines the dangers of a lot of the shallow modern revivalistic evangelism we find in Christianity today.

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The Gospel in a Secular Society

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  • John A. Haverland

This article is about effectively communicating the gospel in our evangelism today. Working from Acts 17, the author shows how we can introduce the gospel to others within our modern secular society.

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Paul the Evangelist

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  • Alex J. MacDonald

The author looks at how Paul brought the gospel, and what we can learn from it for our preaching today. Acts 16:11-40 is discussed in detail.

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Letter Tracts in Evangelism

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  • Richard M. Lewis

This article is about letter tracts in evangelism.

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Joy to the World

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  • Emily R. Brink

This article considers reaching out to the world through a night of carolling in the neighbourhood of the church.

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Do Demons Have a Postcode? Must Evangelists Bind Territorial Spirits?

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  • Robert McKean

Is the success of evangelism limited to casting out demons from particular areas? This article shows that there is no evidence in Scripture supporting this kind of approach to evangelism.

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The Emmaus Model of Ministry

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  • Jimmy Davis

Is there a model the church can use to reach out to the lost through evangelism? The church can use the model of incarnation, inquiry, interpretation, and ignition. This article explains what this model looks like—the model Jesus used on the road to Emmaus.

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What Does Mission Look Like in the Suburbs?

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  • Matt Tebbe

What does it mean to do mission work in suburbs? While suburbs may pose a challenge to missions, this article identifies the needs common to suburbs and shows how these needs can be addressed in order to reach those in suburbs.

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Both/And: The Uncomfortable Apologetic

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  • Ronald B. Mayers

Apologetics and mission are closely related and can never be divorced. The essay wants to set parameters for all missiological endeavors.

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Christian Mission and World Religions

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  • D. Griffioen

This article looks at the thinking of Gustav Warneck, Hendrik Kraemer, and Lesslie Newbigin in relation to their development in their thinking about Christian mission in relation to world religions, while looking at the contribution they made to missiology.

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The Church's Mission in a Pluralistic Society

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  • Donald M. Macdonald

This article is about pluralism and how we should bring the gospel and do missions in a pluralistic society.

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New Directions in the Theology of Mission

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  • Eric J. Sharpe

This article addresses trends in the debate surrounding the nature of a Christian theology of missions. The considerations are also done largely against a background dominated by the situation of the church in Asia and Africa. The "missio dei" is considered together with the conviction that the church's existence should be seen as mission.

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Co-operation in Evangelism

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  • John Murray

Is 2 Corinthians 6:14 against co-operation of evangelicals and modernists in evangelism? This article shows that evangelism is rooted in theology. Therefore, evangelicals may not co-operate with modernists in promoting the gospel, nor even co-operate in sponsoring an evangelistic undertaking. Why? This article explains.

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The Cross and the Crown

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  • Burk Parsons

We should not compromise our preaching or worship in order to attract people to church. We must preach the Word of God, including the gospel of Christ's death, resurrection, ascension, and future return.

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Mission Recalibrated – Chris Wright’s "The Mission of God"

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  • Michael P. Jensen

This article is a review of the important "The Mission of God" of Chris Wright. In his book Wright himself offers a point at which his own work might be assessed when he writes: "I would ask that the missional framework I propose in this volume be evaluated for its heuristic fruitfulness. Does it in fact do justice to the overall thrust of the biblical canon? Does it illuminate and clarify? Does it offer a way of articulating the coherence of the Bible’s overarching message?".

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Bunyan's Departure from Preaching

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  • Harry L. Poe

Is preaching the sole means for presenting the gospel in evangelism? This article shows how John Bunyan defended his use of allegory in his Pilgrim's Progress to confront people with the claims of the gospel on their lives.

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Hyper-Evangelism: Another Gospel, though a Mighty Power

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  • John Kennedy

The author explains that hyper-evangelism does not emphasize the aspect of God as lawgiver and judge. In other words, the truth of man's position before the law of God is simply ignored in the preaching. The consequences are discussed further in the article. Other observations are that it ignores the sovereignty and power of God in the dispensation of his grace, the glory of God in the salvation of a sinner, and the lurking danger of antinomianism in converts.

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The Return of the City

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  • Howard Worsley

A plea is offered for a return to the city. The author argues the reasons for practical theology to be restored to the city, he advocates reasons why this is not proving an easy thing to achieve and makes proposals for a future that features a reinvigorated church for urban mission. When urban needs are given priority in churches outside the city, they die under a thousand qualifications. If the church is to reconnect with the city, the mission of Jesus will be clarified and amplified.

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When the line of demarcation between church and world is slowly wiped out, all the ‘evangelism’ in the world isn’t going to revive it. Jelle Tuininga
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