Tag: Evangelism
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Resources on the Trinity
Last night, at our weekly Cru Live meeting on campus, we had a discussion on the Trinity. Here are several resources to help you dig deeper. Thinking About the Trinity Check out two brief articles to begin. First, Can You Explain the Trinity? from EveryStudent.com. Then, Why Must God Be a Trinity?, a post I…
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How Should I Respond to My “Fact-Based” Friends?
It’s fairly common to talk with non-Christian friends who may, even in passing, say they struggle to believe any religion because they’re “fact-based” people (or something to that effect). Our friends may add that they “believe in” science or math because those disciplines are “fact-based.” It puts us in a tough spot. Maybe your friend…
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What Is Evangelism, Anyway?
Almost half of millennials who say they follow Jesus believe it’s wrong to evangelize. That is, they believe it’s wrong to tell other people who do not follow Jesus about the Jesus they follow. This is according to a new study released by Barna, Christianity Today reported last week. Barna found that 47% of practicing…
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Neither Rosy Optimists nor Despairing Pessimists
George Eldon Ladd, in The Gospel of the Kingdom, writes about the proper Christian attitude as the world continues toward its end. He says that Christians should have a healthy “biblical realism” rather than dogged optimism or pessimism. We are not rosy optimists, expecting the gospel to conquer the world and establish the Kingdom of God. Neither…
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Some Characteristics of Paul’s Missionary Methods
The apostle Paul is the greatest missionary Christianity has ever known, behind only the Lord Jesus himself. Paul used many missionary methods in his journeys. Of course, all of his methods and strategies were subject to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. This may actually be considered the supreme characteristic of Paul’s methods. Aside from this…
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Pray for the Arab World Today
Frontiers will be praying and/or fasting today for the Arab world. Here’s an outline to pray with them: Prayer Guide for the Arab World Part One: Praise for many aspects of what has happened so far Many of the events which have happened so far have had evidence of Godʼs mercy and compassion in them.…
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The stories you won’t read about will matter the most.
I used to hate soccer. I thought it was for Europeans who didn’t have the coordination to play American sports. Then I lived in South Africa and was continually schooled by kids half my age who did things with a soccer ball with their feet that I can’t even do with my hands. After a…
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Jesus Keeps Pursuing, Even When We are Ignorant
Many people have interpreted Jesus’ interaction with the woman at the well as a model for personal evangelism for Christians. That’s one way of looking at it, I guess. Perhaps more significantly, however, we can look at this episode to see how we are like the woman, and how Jesus is our great Pursuer. This…
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The Splendid and Stern Gospel of John the Baptizer
In Luke 3, John the Baptizer’s gospel is hard, stern, and in-your-face. He preaches a radical lifestyle of self-sacrifice, compassion, and justice (vv. 10-14). He even goes so far to say that the Christ has an axe ready to cut down the unfruitful tree and winnowing fork ready to burn the worthless chaff (vv. 9,…
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Back to Normal
Our five week summer project in Johannesburg finishes up today. The students will be headed back to the states this evening and we’ll be on our way back to Pretoria to start the final 97 day plunge of this 11 month trip. It has been an exciting past month and the Lord, as always, did…
JAMES PRUCH 