Along with the implementation of my new blog site, I intend to launch a ‘word of the week’ post. This weekly post (I hope to distribute on Wednesday of each week), will offer a brief ‘word’ for your consideration and reflection. Each post will offer a word, quote, poem, saying, etc. of an author I am reading or have read. I will also include a link to the larger body of work, where appropriate.
Today’s “Wednesday’s Word of the Week” is EVANGELISM. The following quote is from a recent work of Scott Mcknight:
Most of evangelism today is obsessed with getting someone to make a decision; the apostles, however, were obsessed with making disciples. Evangelism that focuses on decisions short circuits and – yes, the word is appropriate – aborts the design of the gospel, while evangelism that aims at disciples slows down to offer the full gospel of Jesus and the apostles.¹
So put away all moral filth and excess of evil and receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.
Jacob/James 1:21,22
Wonderful text: “receive with humility the implanted word.” Thanks, Dan!