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Movies In Evangelism
Popular movies can give openings for sharing gospel, speaker says By Tony Imms [Baptist Press, August 10, 1999] GLORIETA, N.M. (BP) The popular movies that Hollywood produces can be used as tools to reach non-Christians with the gospel, according to a speaker at Student Week, Aug.7-13, at Glorieta (N.M.), a LifeWay Conference Center. Jerry Nash, […]
Who Is Jesus?
> Who is He? Can you explain that to me in terms that would be clear to an > unbeliever? You have asked for terms that would be clear to an unbeliever, so I have avoided technical terms and jargon as much as possible. Jesus is a man who lived about 2000 years ago. Those […]
What Is The Gospel?
The word "gospel" comes from a Greek word which means good news. In the Bible the good news refers to something that God has done for us to resolve the very serious predicament in which all of mankind finds itself, without exception. Wherefore, as by one man [Adam] sin entered into the world, and death […]
Preaching To Jewish Followers Of Jesus Today
These tips were suggested for a shabbat service where I’m preaching in a few weeks. It’s the church in Melbourne for Jews-who-follow-Jesus. Rowland. Friday’s sermon… Sermon length: 20-30 min A brief list of `PC’ language in Messianic Jewish Congregations: avoid -> use instead Christian (adj) -> Messianic Christian (n) -> believer, follower, messianic Jew Christ/Saviour […]
An Example Of ‘Net Evangelism
Subject: Re: Use of 'Lord's Prayer' in secular settings Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:53:36 GMT From: (Nigel B. Mitchell) Reply-To: Organization: iiNet Limited Newsgroups: aus.religion,aus.religion.christian,nz.soc.religion In <>, "Tigger" wrote: >Two thousand years after Jesus walked the earth, there are many competing >religions. All claim to have the truth, and most claim unique truth. Many […]
Evangelism: Adapting To The Culture
[Baptist Press 11 September 1999] Successful ministers must adapt to the culture around them, York says By Michael Foust LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)–The faces in Southern Baptist churches should better represent the faces in America, said Hershael York, associate professor of Christian preaching at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Speaking about the composition of churches during a […]
Going Up
Read: John 5:17-30 He who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life. -John 5:24 A few years ago, a TV ad for life insurance showed a businessman walking across a busy city street. He leaped for the curb as a car veered toward him. Somewhat ruffled, he said, "That […]
Baptists And Jews
Secularism, not Southern Baptists, is the greatest threat to Judaism By Tim Ellsworth LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)–The prayer efforts of Southern Baptists on behalf of their Jewish friends are motivated by love, wrote R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., in a Sept. 17 column in The Wall Street Journal. […]
The World In Which We Live
"If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be […]
The Language Of The Gospel …
If those who say that we must preach the same message as Paul and the other apostles mean that we should also exhibit the same adaptability and sensitivity to the background culture, then they are right… If, however, they mean that we should expect results merely by repeating the actual phrases found in the New […]
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