WHAT'S THIS EVANGELISM ALL ABOUT (1 OF 8)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: I Corinthians 15:1-10
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What's This Evangelism All About (1 of 8)
Series: Christianese
Jeff Strite
I Corinthians 15:1-10
OPEN: There's a true story about a church down south where the preacher had been preaching about the importance of witnessing to people about Christ. One particular person took this to heart - a mentally handicapped young man - and he began telling everyone who would listen about Jesus and asking if they'd like to become Christians.
One particular Sunday a skeptic came to visit the church. He didn't want to be there. His family had invited him and it was more out politeness than anything else that he was there. And then this boy approached him and asked if he wanted to become a Christian.
''NO!'' the man responded.
The slow witted boy looked at him for a moment and then responded:
''Well, then you can go to hell,''
And he turned away and left.
(PAUSE)
For the next few weeks we're going to be looking at several unique Christian Words.
''CHRISTIANEZE'' is what we're calling this series, and the first of those Christianeze kind of words we're going to examine is ''Evangelism''.
Now, when many people in the world hears this word ''Evangelism'' what they often hear Christians saying is ''You're Going To Hell''.
And there's a reason they would think that. Many Christians believe that they NEED to talk about HELL if they're going to witness properly. On Facebook I read this statement:
''Hell is not solved by Stop, Drop and Roll. In Hell There Is Weeping, Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth.''
http://skepticalavenger.tumblr.com/post/41036130455/quotes
On the internet I also found a Gospel tract that had this on its cover:
''Heaven Or Hell? You could die today''.
And on the inside of the tract was this phrase:
''Are You Going To Hell? Do you care for your soul?''
Then it went on to ask if the reader had ever lied, stolen, taken God's name in vain, basically explaining that all this made it so the reader deserved to be in hell.
http://www.know ...
Series: Christianese
Jeff Strite
I Corinthians 15:1-10
OPEN: There's a true story about a church down south where the preacher had been preaching about the importance of witnessing to people about Christ. One particular person took this to heart - a mentally handicapped young man - and he began telling everyone who would listen about Jesus and asking if they'd like to become Christians.
One particular Sunday a skeptic came to visit the church. He didn't want to be there. His family had invited him and it was more out politeness than anything else that he was there. And then this boy approached him and asked if he wanted to become a Christian.
''NO!'' the man responded.
The slow witted boy looked at him for a moment and then responded:
''Well, then you can go to hell,''
And he turned away and left.
(PAUSE)
For the next few weeks we're going to be looking at several unique Christian Words.
''CHRISTIANEZE'' is what we're calling this series, and the first of those Christianeze kind of words we're going to examine is ''Evangelism''.
Now, when many people in the world hears this word ''Evangelism'' what they often hear Christians saying is ''You're Going To Hell''.
And there's a reason they would think that. Many Christians believe that they NEED to talk about HELL if they're going to witness properly. On Facebook I read this statement:
''Hell is not solved by Stop, Drop and Roll. In Hell There Is Weeping, Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth.''
http://skepticalavenger.tumblr.com/post/41036130455/quotes
On the internet I also found a Gospel tract that had this on its cover:
''Heaven Or Hell? You could die today''.
And on the inside of the tract was this phrase:
''Are You Going To Hell? Do you care for your soul?''
Then it went on to ask if the reader had ever lied, stolen, taken God's name in vain, basically explaining that all this made it so the reader deserved to be in hell.
http://www.know ...
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