As the following dialogue illustrates, many times well-meaning Christians, including evangelists, fail to communicate the Good News to non-believers because they use terms that the non-believer doesn\u2019t use, or uses in a different way.<\/p>\n
Evangelist:<\/i> Are you a member of the Christian family?<\/p>\n
Store clerk:<\/i> No, they live two miles down the road, the white house on the left.<\/p>\n
Evangelist:<\/i> Let me try again. Are you lost?<\/p>\n
Store clerk:<\/i> No, I\u2019ve lived in this town for over thirty years now. I know right where I am.<\/p>\n
Evangelist:<\/i> Let me put it this way\u2014are you ready for the Judgment Day?<\/p>\n
Store clerk:<\/i> When will it be?<\/p>\n
Evangelist:<\/i> Could be today, could be tomorrow!<\/p>\n
Store clerk:<\/i> Well, when you know exactly, be sure to let me know. My wife will probably want to go on both days.408<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As the following dialogue illustrates, many times well-meaning Christians, including evangelists, fail to communicate the Good News to non-believers because they use terms that the non-believer doesn\u2019t use, or uses in a different way. Evangelist: Are you a member of the Christian family? Store clerk: No, they live two miles down the road, the white … Continue reading “EVANGELISM, CLARITY IN”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}