{"id":632,"date":"2010-12-07T14:20:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T21:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=632"},"modified":"2010-12-08T12:46:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T19:46:43","slug":"evangelism-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":"Evangelism 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the essence of evangelism?<\/p>\n<p>When you have removed all the different methods of doing evangelism, what is left?<\/p>\n<p>What common denominator can be found among all the different legitimate ways of doing evangelism?<\/p>\n<p>Try this on for size: <strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Evangelism is the process of intentionally moving into relationship with those God has sovereignly placed around me for the purpose of showing and telling them the love of Christ in such a way that they will be compelled toward personal faith in Jesus Christ.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>These then are the essential elements of evangelism:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Evangelism is both a <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">process<\/span> <\/span>and an <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">event<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>2. Evangelism is <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">intentional<\/span><\/span>!<\/p>\n<p>3. Evangelism is <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">relational<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>4. Evangelism involves looking at how God has <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">sovereignly<\/span> <\/span>placed people in my life.<\/p>\n<p>5. Evangelism&#8217;s purpose is to spread the love of Christ in <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">word<\/span> <\/span>and <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">deed<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>6. Evangelism is inherently <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">persuasive<\/span><\/span>!<\/p>\n<p>7. Evangelism is aimed at both the event of <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">conversion<\/span> <\/span>and the life of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">discipleship<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"if(typeof(jsCall)=='function'){jsCall();}else{setTimeout('jsCall()',500);}\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"if(typeof(jsCall)=='function'){jsCall();}else{setTimeout('jsCall()',500);}\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"if(typeof(jsCall)=='function'){jsCall();}else{setTimeout('jsCall()',500);}\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the essence of evangelism? When you have removed all the different methods of doing evangelism, what is left? What common denominator can be found among all the different legitimate ways of doing evangelism? Try this on for size: Evangelism is the process of intentionally moving into relationship with those God has sovereignly placed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evangelism","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-ac","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}