What do you think?
Here are a few of the more pertinent parts:
3) Social Action / Public Involvement
Mercy ministries display God’s kindness, and they are good and appropriate for the Christian to do. But such actions are not evangelism. They may commend the gospel to others, but only if someone has told them the gospel. They need to have the gospel added to them. Helping others or doing our jobs well, whatever they are, in and of themselves are not evangelism.
4) Apologetics
Apologetics are valuable, but they have their own set of dangers. You can get bogged down in talking about purely intellectual or peripheral matters and never get to the gospel.
It’s fine for us to talk with unbelieving friends about questions that they have, but our attempts to try and answer them without setting the gospel as the foundation does no good. Jesus must set the agenda for evangelism.
I agree. You don’t always have to share the whole gospel with every encounter, but I think the danger for much of the Church is the opposite extreme. Many times we give a person a cold cup of water as he’s walking off the cliff to hell, then we pat ourselves on the back and call it evangelism.
