Equipping Timothys to Do the Work of Evangelists
Imagine that you live in a house with electricity in only one room. You call it “the electricity room.” You go there whenever you need to do something that requires…
Weaving Evangelism into Discipleship
Introduction There are two groups of people in the world – those on the inside of the church and those on the outside. Another way of looking at this is…
Are Millennials Really That Bad?
I’m taking a break from my series on art to address a question I’ve been asked several times in just the past few days. Because I speak and write…
Science Uber Alles
I recently toured a botanical garden. I loved the array of colors and shapes. In fact, I marveled at the diversity of shades of just one color - green. I…
Images of Pre-Evangelism, part 5
Consider two different visual images – two people playing tennis and two people looking at the same piece of art. In the first, the people face each other and try…
Images of Pre-Evangelism, part 4
Evangelism requires gentleness. But sometimes it needs shrewdness. Often, the subtext must read, “A gentle answer turns away wrath” (Proverbs 15:1). At other times, we need to remember, “Answer a…
Images of Pre-Evangelism, part 3
I chose to include a chapter on anger in my book Questioning Evangelism. When my acquisitions editor saw “What if I want my neighbor to go to hell?” as a…
Images of Pre-Evangelism, part 2
I’ve never owned a car with a standard transmission because I can’t afford it. I’m not referring to the cost of buying such a car. I mean that, given my…
Images of Pre-Evangelism, Part 1
Decades ago, Francis Schaeffer wrote, “Pre-Evangelism is no soft option.” His words ring truer than ever. Many people we know find the starting points of our gospel presentations unintelligible,…
Evangelism as “Breaking a Taboo”
In a recent blog, I asked for readers to send me questions they get asked by non-Christians. The first response was: "I haven't ever been asked a question! To me,…