Avery and Mark—excellent story tellers—were on a mission to motivate and recruit more story-telling disciple-makers when they wrote this book in their down-to-earth storytelling style. And rightly so. In this postmodern world more people need to either read this book or go to an ION (International Orality Network) conference and get on board with this appropriate methodology for sharing Christ and making disciples. →
The exposition of Acts 17:16-34 by D.A. Carson is a valuable resource for anyone involved in evangelism with unbelievers in any non-Christian worldview context. →
It is crucial that we present the gospel to informal pluralists within the framework of the Bible's story line. →
It is necessary to turn from in order to turn to. Repentance and faith are different sides of the same turning. Neither repentance nor faith are meritorious: repentance is the fulfillment of a negative duty, faith is the fulfillment of positive duty; the merit is in Jesus Christ and His death, burial, and resurrection. →
Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998) was a Church of Scotland missionary to South India from 1936 to 1974. Although he was a leading figure in the World Council of Churches, he certainly did not succumb to the error of pluralism, as have many in the ecumenical movement. Upon returning to Britain from missionary life India, Newbigin dedicated himself to confronting secularism in the post-Christian West. He viewed Western secularism not as atheistic, but as pagan, embracing its own forms of false gods. Newbigin is known most for his numerous books on this subject, one of which is this one. →
This book is not necessarily an easy read. But chapter 11 (pages 307-333), which bears the same name as the book's title, is worth reading by anyone interested in evangelism in non-Christian religious worldview contexts. →
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