What is Evangelism?
What is Evangelism NOT?
The Impossibility
of Imposition. Many people equate evangelism with imposition - someone imposing their
religious views on another person as a ploy for power or control. But this
idea is mistaken.
- To equate evangelism
with imposition implies that Christianity is only subjectively true - true
and binding for me, but not for others. Christianity is not man's subjective
opinion. It is God's objective truth, regardless of our subjective opinions.
- To equate
evangelism with imposition implies that Christians are able to convert people
themselves, which is entirely false. In fact, of all the religions in the
world, Christianity is the one least amenable to such imposition because of
its theology of conversion.
- Humanity is
so entrenched in sin that unless God's Spirit does the converting work Himself,
none of us would ever repent and believe.
- Therefore,
Christianity is actually unique among world religions for the impossibility
of imposing its belief structure on others. Only God convinces people to repent
and believe.
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