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To: fishtank

Before we throw Stanley under the bus, we should hear from him directly. If the gist of his argument is that evangelism should not be focused on “proving the Bible”, then he is certainly correct.

Evangelism is not the process of proving the Bible, and THEN presenting the Lord, Jesus Christ as Savior of the World. Instead, it is the process of presenting Jesus as Lord employing the Bible, which is the Word of God, in the defense of your assertions.

Once a Christian appeals to the Bible as the source of truth, it will be met with objections about the veracity of the Bible. That Christian should be prepared to defend the veracity of the Bible. But at some point, the discussion has to be brought back to Jesus.

I suspect that what Stanley actually said was that those who we evangelize can bring a myriad of objections based on their disbelief in the Bible as the Word of God. While defending the veracity of the Bible, the Christian should be prepared to move the discussion back to the person of Jesus Christ, which is the proper focus.


44 posted on 09/22/2016 11:11:19 AM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: the_Watchman

The last part of the hymn “I Am Resolved” explains all of this:

I am resolved, and who will go with me?
Come, friends, without delay,
Taught by the Bible, led by the Spirit,
We’ll walk the heav’nly way.


106 posted on 09/22/2016 1:18:14 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Pence, 2016)
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